North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Let’s face it. Some trials just aren’t that interesting. But if you’ve been accused of robbing a grocery store, you’d probably want the judge to stay awake for the proceedings. Alas, that wasn’t the case during a recent trial in ...

Tagged with: retrial

Talk about your mixed days. On June 21, the North Carolina Court of Appeals vacated two armed robbery convictions after finding that assistant district attorney Colleen Janssen had improperly withheld evidence that the state’s star witness was actually a major ...

Tagged with: Witness protection

The North Carolina Senate Health Committee has approved a bill that would make it unlawful to give your kid away to a complete stranger. Read that again. The committee approved a bill that would make it a crime to give ...

Tagged with: Child Custody

Look, he only stole the alleged drug money because he has kids, OK? But rather than upholding Dittrell Dove’s conviction for the charge of stealing evidence, the North Carolina Court of Appeals held that the alleged drug money in question ...

Tagged with: evidence

As lawyers, you’ve all had ungrateful clients. Clients who didn’t appreciate your efforts, didn’t listen to your advice, and so on. But no client, perhaps, has been more ungrateful and downright rude than Ricky Hand, 46, of Springfield, Ohio. According ...

Tagged with: armed robbery

Alcohol and boating don’t mix, I’ve heard it said. That’s especially true when you’re in a stolen boat and the best story you can come up with to tell authorities after drifting into a restricted area is that you tossed ...

Tagged with: Coast Guard

An ousted church treasurer might have been ignored, humiliated and laughed at after he pushed for an audit, but no one spit in his food. And that fact led the North Carolina Court of Appeals to reject Norman Glenn’s argument ...

Tagged with: church

Just when you think exotic dancers are getting a measure of respect, enter Kenny Havard, a Republican state representative in Louisiana. On May 18, while the House discussed a bill that would raise the minimum age to 21 for strippers ...

Tagged with: exotic dancer

I don’t know how accurate the old Western flicks are that my grandparents seem to be watching every time I’m there, but back then men wore six-guns on their hip like they were standard issue. Welp, times are a changin’. ...

Tagged with: Gun Rights

In retrospect, Wilson County Superior Court Judge Milton Fitch’s decision to throw a jury foreman in jail for 30 days for taking notes on his cellphone might have been a bit much. The North Carolina Court of Appeals certainly thought ...

Tagged with: Contempt