North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

RALEIGH (AP) — A bill easing requirements to wipe some criminal records clean is advancing through North Carolina’s legislature. The measure that cleared the House Judiciary Committee on July 10 automates expunctions for criminal charges that don’t result in convictions and ...

RALEIGH (AP) — The drive to enact a new North Carolina state budget idled even as Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper made a counteroffer to the two-year plan he’s already vetoed, and Republicans failed again to locate enough votes to override ...

RALEIGH (AP) — Legislation designed to give North Carolina prosecutors a new tool to convict drug dealers and to require public schools to teach more finance education is now law. The bills are among a dozen that Gov. Roy Cooper ...

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina lawyers have two weeks to argue that the state’s prison system and a half-dozen managers aren’t responsible for a prison guard’s fatal beating her father blamed on unaddressed problems including chronic understaffing and insufficient training. ...

WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — A North Carolina university is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit stemming from a fatal shooting on its campus in 2018. The Winston-Salem Journal reports that Wake Forest University is disputing the allegations lodged by ...

RALEIGH (AP) — A U.S. Attorney in North Carolina announced a man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for reportedly planning to shoot into Raleigh’s federal building. U.S. Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin announced the sentencing of 56-year-old ...

GRAHAM (AP) — A woman who attended a court hearing for a triple-murder suspect in Alamance County is behind bars, serving a 10-day sentence for contempt of court. The Times-News of Burlington reports that the first appearance for 26-year-old defendant ...

RALEIGH (AP) — A former prosecutor has been appointed to a third term on a fact-finding commission that reviews claims of innocence from North Carolina residents convicted of crimes. But this time, he’ll be representing criminal defense attorneys, some of ...

RALEIGH (AP) — Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled federal courts aren’t the place to settle partisan gerrymandering disputes, opponents of North Carolina’s district maps are putting their hopes in state courts. An election reform group, the state ...

When North Carolina drew its most recent political maps, state leaders split a historically black university in Greensboro into two congressional districts that critics say diluted the voting power of African Americans on campus. Lawmakers defended it as partisan gerrymandering ...

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