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Voluntary Dismissal with Leave Doesn’t Mean Your Case Is Over

If you’ve ever missed a court date for a traffic ticket or criminal charge in North Carolina, your case may have been placed in voluntary dismissal with leave status, commonly...

How We Treat Mentally Ill Inmates is Just Plain Insanity

How the Wake County Justice System is Failing Vulnerable Defendants The Raleigh News & Observer reported on July 26, 2014 that Wake County was failing to efficiently provide inmates in...

Proposed SBI Move Isn’t a Step in the Right Direction

Why North Carolina Needs to Do More About the SBI Crime Lab The North Carolina House of Representatives voted to change the position of a state law enforcement agency within...

A Brief Overview of Statutory Rape

When Mistake is No Defense: A Short Explanation of Statutory Rape Spring has finally sprung for good, and to paraphrase Tennyson, in Spring a young person’s thoughts turn to love....

Order in the Court! Tips on How to Act While on the Witness Stand

Five Points to Remember when Testifying in Your Own Defense Both the United States and North Carolina Constitutions prohibit a criminal defendant from being forced to testify against himself. A...

How to Protect Your Rights During a Medical Review Hearing

An article on the News Observer website dated February 18, 2014 tackles the issue of discrimination against motorists with disabilities. The article notes that advocates of North Carolina’s physically impaired...

SCRAMbling for change: Tools to mitigate consequences in serious DWI cases

DWIs are perhaps the most complex misdemeanors this firm handles on a regular basis. While every case, from speeding tickets to homicides, is different, Driving While Impaired cases involve a...

Expelling Expunction Myths

Understanding Expunctions: A Quick Guide to Expunction Law in North Carolina There has been a lot of talk recently about changes that have been made to the laws governing expunctions...

Cops, DWIs, and Videotape: Proposed N.C. law would require police to record DWI arrests from start to finish.

Dashboard Cameras and DWI Arrests Why aren’t all police cars already equipped with dashboard cameras? When it comes to defending individuals charged with driving while impaired (DWI), footage from the...

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