A bill in the General Assembly would regulate behavior at polling places and protect political signs outside those locations from theft or vandalism. House Bill 967, “Disorderly Conduct at Voting…
Editors at National Review Online raise serious questions about the criminal indictment of a former president. A long-standing progressive fantasy was fulfilled Tuesday afternoon when Donald Trump was arraigned on…
North Carolina’s criminal code is a mess. The sheer number of criminal laws and regulations are inaccessible and haphazardly organized so as to make it virtually impossible for regular citizens…
WBTV has the details: The Union County School Board voted to host traditional graduation ceremonies while practicing social distancing— despite North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s order that prohibits them. ……
This week, JLF’s Mike Schietzelt published a research brief that ponders the origins of three criminalized behaviors in North Carolina’s criminal code. First, Schietzelt introduces G.S. 14-83.1. Fixtures subject to…
North Carolina’s criminal code is a complex beast. As we’ve mentioned time and time again, crimes are tucked all over the place. There’s a crime in more than 140 chapters of…
What do off-leash dogs, screeching tires, and begging have in common? All three can earn you a criminal record in North Carolina. Last month, Professor Jessica Smith (UNC School of…
Following a ruling in favor of the Richmond County Board of Education, about a dozen other counties are now suing the state for diverting forfeiture funds from the schools to…
A bipartisan group of N.C. legislators unveiled this afternoon House Bill 399, the Young Offenders Rehabilitation Act. It aims to transfer misdemeanor offenses by 16- and 17-year-olds from the adult…
Barry Smith reports for Carolina Journal Online that reclassifying some crimes to low-level misdemeanors or infractions could save the state $2 million a year. Donna Martinez’s Daily Journal laments government…
The Town of Kernersville and former police chief Ken Gamble are being sued by a Forsth County man over injuries he sustained during a bizarre police stop along Business Interstate…
The latest Carolina Journal Online news report recounts the misdemeanor guilty plea entered Friday by Morganton attorney Julia Leigh Sitton, a former fundraiser and aide to Gov. Bev Perdue. Sitton…