The North Carolina Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for a man who allegedly used social media to make drunken death threats against a district attorney, reversing state’s Court of Appeals order to acquit the man because the trial ...

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HERTFORD, N.C. (AP) — A judge has ordered a North Carolina town councilman to serve five days in jail after finding him guilty of threatening a citizen at a town council meeting this summer. Hertford Town Councilman Quentin Jackson was ...

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In re H.R.P.A. (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-107-17, 8 pp.) (Mark Davis, J.) Appealed from Wake County District Court (Louis Meyer, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Where the trial court found that respondent had threatened to kill her son and that ...

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Cantillano Cruz v. Sessions (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-073-17, 15 pp.) (Keenan, J.) No. 15-2511, March 13, 2017; On Petition for Review; 4th Cir. Holding: A Honduran citizen’s nuclear family ties to her husband, whom she suspected had been murdered by ...

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  When all else fails and you absolutely, positively must get the attention of your employer overnight, make a social media post about putting a baseball bat upside your supervisor’s head. That’s how it played out for Margaret Whichard, an ...

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Nancy Crotti Dolan Media Newswires Much has been written about security for law offices in the wake of the April 7 shooting death of 23-year-old clerk Chase Passauer in his employer’s St. Paul. Minnesota, law office. Lawyers have good reason ...

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