A Fort Bragg solider stands accused of using confidential national security information to place lucrative bets on the ousting of former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. According to this article, the […] Read more about News Roundup

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As I mentioned last month, Timothy Heinle and I are nearing completion of an updated Superior Court Judges’ Benchbook chapter on Evidence Issues in Criminal Cases Involving Child Victims and […] Read more about Expert-Testimony Phrase Chart for Cases Involving Alleged Child Sexual Abuse

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This post summarizes published criminal law and related cases released by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals during March 2026. Cases of potential interest to state practitioners are summarized monthly. […] Read more about Case Summaries: Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (March 2026)

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This post summaries the published opinions in criminal cases issued by the North Carolina Court of Appeals on April 15, 2026. Sufficient evidence supported denying the defendant’s motion to dismiss […] Read more about Case Summaries: N.C. Court of Appeals (April 15, 2026).

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Iryna’s Law Studies. The North Carolina Collaboratory recently issued its Preliminary Report on the Intersection of Mental Health and the Justice Systems for both Adults and Juveniles in North Carolina, […] Read more about News Roundup

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A few years ago, T-shirts and coffee mugs with the phrase “Please do not confuse your Google search with my law degree,” were making the rounds. What simpler times those […] Read more about Artificial Intelligence, Local Orders, and the Courts

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The statutory right to use deadly force in self-defense is not available to one who was committing a felony. G.S. 14-51.4(1). In State v. McLymore, 380 N.C. 185 (2022), the […] Read more about Time’s Arrow: Does McLymore’s Causal Nexus Requirement Have a Temporal Component?

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In recent months, I have received several questions about what North Carolina’s cyberstalking statute covers and whether it may infringe on First Amendment free speech rights. This post addresses several […] Read more about Cyberstalking and Free Speech

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The television series Friends was a staple of my young adult life. So in 2022 when Matthew Perry published his memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, I was […] Read more about News Roundup

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In 2018, I wrote this post, https://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/2018/11/28/total-split-sentence-exposure/, about split sentences, examining the total limit on split sentence incarceration that a judge can order at sentencing and as a later modification […] Read more about Total Split Sentence Exposure, Revisited

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