Court Misdemeanor North Carolina 
JURIST
DECEMBER 1, 2024
A newly revised North Carolina juvenile justice law will take effect Sunday, aiming to address gaps in handling serious offenses by minors. This represents a significant change from the 2019 Raise the Age law , which allowed most 16- and 17-year-olds to remain under juvenile court jurisdiction regardless of the severity of the charges.
CourtTechBulletin
MAY 17, 2022
[link] A report on the results of “The Court Appearance Project” in North Carolina was released recently. Relying on their combined expertise and the findings from the data, each county team crafted policy solutions that they believed would deliver a high impact in their courts and communities.3
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NCBA
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
By the North Carolina Judicial Branch Are you interested in understanding more about criminal court case processing in North Carolina? Courtesy of the North Carolina Judicial Branch, the Paralegal Division blog is publishing a three-part series the first three weeks of February.
JURIST
APRIL 12, 2022
A jury for the US District Court for the District of Columbia Monday convicted former Mount Rocky police officer Thomas Robertson on all charges related to the January 6 Capitol attack. In addition, the jury found Robertson guilty of the misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building.
The Crime Report
JUNE 3, 2021
The case has renewed focus on a bill that has continued to work its way through New York’s State Legislature that would raise the minimum age at which a child may be charged as a juvenile delinquent in family court from 7 to 12 (except for homicide offenses) and divert cases involving younger children to social and other services.
The Crime Report
MAY 28, 2021
immigration enforcement has largely shifted from the street to jails, resulting in overreach and an increase in incarceration, according to a North Carolina law professor. Brown had to spend three weeks in jail waiting for his court appearance?time time that without the immigration detainer, he would have spent at home.
The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
Courts would describe the behavior as coercion in any other context. Jerry Johnson, an Institute for Justice client from North Carolina, found out the hard way in 2020 when three plainclothes officers stopped him at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Courts must level the playing field and start pushing back.
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