Welcome back to the Friday News Roundup. It’s been an interesting week for criminal law news. Without further ado, here are a few of the top stories: ...

The 2026 Appropriations Act created a new district court district, effective January 1, 2027, by splitting current District 5, a four-county district ...

This post summarizes criminal law and related cases released by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals during July of 2026. Cases of potential interest to ...

This post summarizes published criminal opinions from the Supreme Court of North Carolina released on August 14, 2026. The court released twelve such ...

Last year, Governor Josh Stein created the North Carolina Artificial Intelligence (AI) Leadership Council to chart a roadmap on AI leadership and ...

I was on vacation last week. I spent part of my time reading Carlos Barragan’s book The Yahoo Boys. Barragan is a Spanish journalist. His mother, a ...

A defendant’s simultaneous possession of multiple guns will generally support only one conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon. In State v. ...

Today’s post addresses a small (and admittedly mundane) thing that trips people up from time to time. What happens when an appealed probationary ...

Kim Kardashian’s Calabasas mansion was broken into on Sunday, and police have arrested a suspect, per this story from NBC and USA Today. Officers with ...

This post summarizes the published criminal opinions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals released on August 5, 2026. No Fourth Amendment ...