Drug recognition evidence has been pre-determined to be reliable and based on sufficient data and facts, and can be admitted without further foundation, the state Court of Appeals unanimously held April 17. Judges Wanda Bryant, Chris Dillon, and John ...

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Smith v. Munday (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-032-17, 31 pp.) (Gregory, J.) No. 15-1092, Feb. 3, 2017; USDC at Statesville, N.C. (Voorhees, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: The 4th Circuit reverses summary judgment in this civil rights suit for defendant police officer ...

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U.S. v. Dozier (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-022-17, 15 pp.) (Davis, S.J.) No. 15-4532, Jan. 30, 2017; USDC at Beckley, W.Va. (Berger, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: Although the district court erred in applying a modified categorical approach to West Virginia’s general ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The entire General Assembly appears on board to offering easier access to a prescription drug already known to have reversed more than 2,000 overdoses of heroin or other opium-based drugs in North Carolina. The House agreed ...

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State v. Dulin (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-195-16, 21 pp.) (Donna Stroud, J.) Appealed from Forsyth County Superior Court (A. Moses Massey, J.) N.C. App. Holding: The state proved that defendant had constructive possession of a house in which drug paraphernalia ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A medication already known to have reversed well over 2,000 overdoses of heroin, OxyContin or other opium-based drugs in North Carolina since 2013 could become more accessible in legislation recommended Tuesday by a state Senate committee. ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina will receive $45 million in a settlement with drug makers Pfizer and Wyeth. Media outlets report that a group of states, including North Carolina, settled with the drug makers Wednesday on lawsuits alleging the companies owed ...

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State v. Stith (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-125-16, 18 pp.) (Chris Dillon, J.) (Robert Hunter Jr., J., dissenting) Appealed from Johnston County Superior Court (Claire Hill, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Changing an indictment by striking through one mention of “Schedule II” ...

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State v. Oxendine (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-123-16, 18 pp.) (Martha Geer, J.) (Chris Dillon, J., concurring in part & dissenting in part) Appealed from Union County Superior Court (Christopher Bragg, J.) N.C. App. Holding: An indictment alleged that defendant “unlawfully, ...

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SEATTLE (AP) — When pondering how to keep low-level drug offenders out of jail, officials in Albany, New York, faced a challenge: How could they pay for a case manager to coax addicts onto the straight and narrow, sometimes by ...

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