The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a resentencing Tuesday in a North Carolina drug case, prompting a dissenting judge to ask colleagues to “fix this mess.”
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals used the case of an armed felon Friday to highlight a larger issue involving challenges to trial judges’ decisions.
North Carolina’s second-highest court must decide whether a trial judge violated a woman’s First Amendment rights when he limited her ability to share law enforcement videos with the public. The videos were tied to a state trooper’s fatal shooting of the woman’s dogs in 2024.
North Carolina’s bail policies face scrutiny as magistrates aren’t required to review criminal histories or follow clear guidelines when setting bail.
The nation’s highest court will not take up the case of a North Carolina man serving a life sentence without parole in the murder of two law enforcement officers in 1997. The US Supreme Court rejected Kevin Salvador Golphin’s appeal along with dozens of other cases Tuesday. Justices offered no commentary about the decision.
We should expect magistrates to be qualified and trained at the highest level. Specific and consistent standards for setting bail should also be established. Far too many people have been victimized by repeat offenders who were let back on the streets. It needs to stop.
We must reserve pretrial detention for violent and repeat offenders while avoiding needless detention for low-level offenders to ensure the system works as intended and public trust is restored.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court’s 2023 decision mandating the transfer of an inmate from a men’s prison to a women’s prison. The decision Wednesday split the court, 2-1, on how much information the court should have released to the public.
Federal appellate judges have chastised the District Court judge overseeing a voter ID lawsuit for "abuse" of her discretion.
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