North Carolina Criminal Law

I was late in putting together this roundup, which enabled me to include news that just broke today: Former National Security Adviser John Bolton pled guilty this morning to illegally retaining classified information, according to

A common issue that comes up in public defender offices is whether an attorney can ethically represent a particular client when a victim or witness in the current case is a former client of the office. Cross-examination of the former client may require use of a conviction arising from the prior representation or may require exploring areas that overlap with confidential infor...

Among the Juvenile Code provisions that distinguish juvenile delinquency cases from criminal cases are the statutes that explicitly tie mental health assessments and access to mental health treatment to the procedure required to construct and enter a dispositional order. After an adjudication of delinquency occurs (meaning that the juvenile was found beyond a reasonable doubt...

In a case involving charges of flee to elude, the trial court did not err in admitting for impeachment purposes evidence concerning another incident in which the defendant may have appeared to flee from law enforcement

State v. Moore,...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to allow review in a case asking whether the U.S. Constitution permits a defendant to be convicted by a jury of fewer than twelve. As reported by