Michael Lowrey reports for Carolina Journal Online about a recent N.C. Court of Appeals opinion that blocks police officers from extending traffic stops indefinitely. Jon Ham’s Daily Journal questions journalists’…
Got an article out for Carolina Journal on the ‘Community Caregiving’ exception to the Fourth Amendment. Reprinted in full: RALEIGH — The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects Americans…
Michael Lowrey reports for Carolina Journal Online about a recent N.C. Appeals Court decision that allows law enforcement officers to pull over drivers even when the officers have no reason…
And, as we celebrate an enhanced (Pick a color.) police state, officers will help you be late to the inlaws’ this holiday season by impeding the flow of traffic to…
A 2-1 split N.C. Court of Appeals panel reversed a lower court ruling and threw out a 2008 Pitt County drunk driving case. The majority ruled that a state trooper…
Still cannot totally wrap my ahead around the received facts of the incident which left Latia Winchester, 25, dead after a car fleeing a NC Highway Patrol checkpoint smashed into…
Edwardo Wong could be charged with the death penalty for killing Trooper David Shawn Blanton, Jr. during a traffic stop. Whereas most media outlets are saying Wong’s lawyer is trying…
This story was hot around the water cooler. A woman with a two-page rap sheet (license revocations, larceny, arson, resisting arrest) did a U-turn to avoid a traffic stop and…
A good Baptist man who volunteers a lot of his time for the youth in his church was surprised to find himself publicly shamed in the newspaper for being charged…
….on traffic stops, says the Winston-Salem Police Department. What did we think they’d say? An expert explains: Reports on racial profiling come with several caveats, says Matthew Zingraff, a former…
The Journal does a little investigative reporting and concludes that minority drivers are pulled over by Winston-Salem police for minor traffic offenses at a higher rate than whites. WSJS is…
Elements of a fine and obvious local news story: a). conviction of driver stopped by CMPD overturned by N.C. Supreme Court in a unanimous decision. b). driver was stopped for…