ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (AP) — Police in North Carolina are cracking down on speeders with a simple message: Obey the posted speed limit or pay a fine, even if you’re only going a bit over. The N.C. Governor’s Highway Safety Program ...

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GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Hauling a truckload of logs to a Southern Oregon mill last fall, Chris Hill noticed a sheriff’s deputy behind him and flashed his lights to warn a UPS driver coming the other way. The deputy ...

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Courts: U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit; North Carolina Court of Appeals; and  North Carolina Supreme Court State v. Dahlquist (Lawyers Weekly No. 13-07-1187, 12 pp.) Dec. 3, 2013 Holding: The court held that when considering the totality of the circumstances – including the ...

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A state trooper had reasonable suspicion to pull over a driver for impaired driving where he observed her weaving, but only within her own lane for three-quarters of a mile, according to the North Carolina Supreme Court.

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A defendant’s complaint that police officers were damaging the trunk of his vehicle did not constitute a revocation of his voluntary consent to the search, the N.C. Court of Appeals has ruled.

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"Reasonable and prudent." That was the daytime speed limit in Montana for a breezy four years after Congress in 1995 lifted its draconian, federally mandated limits, which first imposed the pokey "double-nickel" 55-mph limit that was later softened to 65. Does that mean that there was an American Autobahn in Big Sky Country in the late '90s? Not exactly.

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The State Bureau of Investigation is looking into alleged improprieties at the Safety and Health Council of North Carolina, a nonprofit organization that offers defensive driving courses in 54 counties in the state. The investigation in Mecklenburg County was confirmed by an attorney who represents a former employee of the driving school who was terminated in September. The employee's name is Cathey Byrd.

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Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. That's Latin for I screwed up big-time. I was so sure I was on solid ground back in July when I wrote a column taking on those guys who solicit business from people who've gotten traffic tickets. You know, the traffic-ticket firms who get lists of folks who have committed some minor infraction and then send them letters that seemed designed to scare the bejeezus out of them. Hire us, they say, or you'll be in worse trouble than you imagined.

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Hopefully as you read this I am not peeling myself off the pavement of some Charlotte intersection. I think I am a glutton for punishment because I enjoy long-distance running. Charlotte is not the most fitting place to try to ...

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As a criminal defense lawyer in Mecklenburg County, I share Judge Smith’s and Alan Brotherton’s concerns about the “driving school” as it is currently administered in this jurisdiction. [See story in the Aug. 23, 2010, issue of North Carolina Lawyers ...

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