NC Criminal Debrief

This episode covers federal reclassification efforts on marijuana and certain psychedelics, as well as recent cases on digital privacy, tenant privacy, and increased punishment following a successful appeal.

This episode covers recent decisions state and federal cases. Topics include the emergency aid exception to the warrant requirement, free speech issues in criminal cases, substitute analyst issues, and the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule.

This episode covers recent federal developments regarding hemp, as well as recent decisions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals on Good Samaritan immunity, offers of compromise, and fighting words.

Episode 22 discusses recent cases from the North Carolina Supreme Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals covering North Carolina’s recent adoption of the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule, access to law enforcement recordings by district court defendants, and North Carolina’s felon disenfranchisement law.

This episode covers recent cases from the North Carolina Court of Appeals and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on criminal contempt, drug recognition expert testimony, cannabis, and search and seizure.

This episode covers new state legislation affecting criminal law, including the new crime of exposing a child to a controlled substance and a new cap on the time in which state post-conviction relief can be sought, as well as a recent Confrontation Clause case from the North Carolina Court of [...]

This episode covers recent developments in North Carolina regarding juror substitutions during deliberations, self-defense law, and constitutional challenges to NC’s firearm by felon law, as well as the recent en banc decision by the Fourth Circuit on geofencing warrants and more.

This episode discusses recent cases decided by the North Carolina Court of Appeals on cannabis, Second Amendment challenges, units of prosecution, and sentencing issues.

This episode covers recent Second Amendment developments, cases addressing challenges to prejudicial and irrelevant evidence, and a North Carolina Supreme Court decision on the Confrontation Clause.

This episode covers recent case law developments on plain feel doctrine, probable cause, and pill bottles, constructive possession, failure to store firearms to protect minors, and THC-O.

This episode covers the new state crime of sexual extortion, amendments to our state exploitation and disclose of private images offenses, a cannabis update, geofencing warrants, and more.

This episode covers recent Second Amendment developments from the U.S. Supreme Court and the Fourth Circuit, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court decision on substitute analysts, Smith v. Arizona.

This episode covers the first successful Second Amendment challenge to a North Carolina criminal law, evidentiary challenges with marijuana prosecutions, and preservation of motions to suppress.

This episode discusses recent legislation, including the expansion of the public defender system in the state and felony pleas in district court, along with cases on search and seizure in the age of legal hemp, the Confrontation Clause, plea bargaining, and sentencing.

This episode highlights recent state search and seizure cases, new state criminal law legislation, prayers for judgment continued (“PJCs”), and more.

This episode covers the U.S. Supreme Court’s denial of review in State v. Diaz-Tomas regarding dismissal with leave, the Court’s grant of review in the substitute analyst case of Smith v. Arizona, the North Carolina Supreme Court’s decision in State v. Arthur on drug identification, and recent legislation in the [...]

This episode discusses recent legislation, including changes to satellite-based monitoring and a new offense of misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, as well as recent state cases on constructive possession, Harbison error, and expert testimony.

This episode discusses the filings at the U.S. Supreme Court in State v. Diaz-Tomas, monetary obligations in criminal cases, recent state legislation, as well as cases on courtroom closures and capacity to proceed.

This episode covers the latest in criminal law, including artificial intelligence and the law, harm reduction laws, khat, the constitutionality of disorderly conducts laws, live-streaming the police, the exclusionary rule at probation, and more.

This episode covers recent state and national criminal law news, along with recent criminal decisions from the NC Supreme Court and the NC Court of Appeals. Topics include 911 call analysis, forfeiture of counsel, obstruction of justice, reinstatement of charges dismissed with leave, and cannabis.

This episode covers the latest in federal and state criminal law news, recent Fourth Amendment cases from the Fourth Circuit, new developments in cannabis and drug identification in the state, new state cases on identity theft and going armed to the terror of the public, as well as a review [...]

This episode discusses recent criminal law news, along with a review of recent decisions by the North Carolina appellate division. Topics include the recent raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, the trial penalty, and confrontation rights at trial and probation violation hearings.

This episode is a review of recent state criminal cases. It covers search and seizure law, First Amendment issues in criminal law, post-conviction DNA testing, the right to counsel, substitute expert analyst testimony and the Confrontation Clause, along with the first successful Batson violation in the state.

Episode one of NC Criminal Debrief focuses on recent developments in North Carolina criminal law, including recent appellate decisions, new legislation, and a new rule of general practice.