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A newly revised NorthCarolina juvenile justice law will take effect Sunday, aiming to address gaps in handling serious offenses by minors. The updated legislation allows 16- and 17-year-olds charged with Class A through E felonies to now be tried as adults. The new law also includes provisions for flexibility.
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Since 1986, bankruptcy cases in Alabama or NorthCarolina have been administered by trustees appointed by the judicial branch, while all other cases have been administered by the U.S. But the Alabama and NorthCarolina trustees had charged much less than fees charged in other states, with the deficit coming out of the judiciary budget.
He also moonlighted as a law clerk for the same judges who presided over his cases. Overall, Petty simultaneously served as a prosecutor and law clerk at least 300 times. Our public interest law firm, the Institute for Justice, represents her. Eventually he filed a lawsuit under the state’s Right to Know Law.
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Roman is facing felony charges of reckless discharge of a firearm and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon as well as child endangerment and violating probation. Likewise, the University of NorthCarolina recently offered an academic chair in Journalism to New York Times’ Nikole Hannah-Jones.
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