In the 1990s, like most states, North Carolina enacted habitual offender statutes (or three strikes or repeat offender statutes). North Carolina has a couple different such statutes. The most important one is the habitual felon statute. The statutes mostly are failures as crime prevention tools.
But they are very harsh. So if [...]
Medicaid is a mostly State-run program. The Federal Government provides the money, and some guidelines. The states themselves handle the day-to-day operations of Medicaid programs.
Medicare is a Federally administered program. The basic scheme is that private providers offer medical services to the poor (Medicaid) or the elderly (Medicare), bill the government (state or [...]
Medicaid Fraud is a complex area of the law involving either restitution, civil penalties, and possible criminal penalties.
The problem is that what the government sometimes counts as fraud, is merely aggressive, and perfectly legal, billing on the parts of providers.
Whether you’re in the category of a company/person accused of outright fraud – where you billed [...]
Governor Bev Perdue has announced that the State of North Carolina will begin more vigorous prosecutions of those accused of Medicaid fraud. Obviously budget conditions in the state and the nation is pushing the governor to look for money everywhere and anywhere, including from those who bill the State for state administered Medicaid expenses. [...]
Someone who assaults – places a public official in imminent fear of being touched or hit or actually hits or unlawfully touches a public official – may be convicted of a Class F felony under Sec. 14-16.6.
In addition, anyone who threatens a public official or mails a letter or other document that threatens [...]
Someone who assaults – places a public official in imminent fear of being touched or hit or actually hits or unlawfully touches a public official – may be convicted of a Class F felony under Sec. 14-16.6.
In addition, anyone who threatens a public official or mails a letter or other document that threatens [...]
North Carolina parole conditions (Officially: “Conditions of Post Release Supervision”) are given to the convicted person on the day he is released from prison. He signs them, along with his parole officer. If you or a loved one are facing a Parole Violation hearing, contact a criminal lawyer North Carolina.
NCGS 15A-1376 et seq governs [...]
Someone who assaults – either does hit or touch or puts someone in imminent fear of being hit or touched – another person with the intent to kill or inflicting serious injury will be guilty of a Class E felony.
These crimes are usually abbreviated as AWDWISI or AWDWIK.
Here is the state:
§ 14-32. Felonious assault with [...]
North Carolina criminalizes sexual acts between people, even where there is consent, if one person is in a position of power over the other person. For instance, if a victim is a minor in a household of an adult, and the adult has consensual sex with the minor, it may be a Class E [...]
At common law and historically, an accessory before the fact – someone who had the requisite intent and provide some kind of assistance or encouragement in the commission of a crime – was punished less harshly than the principal – the person who actually committed the crime.
So if I helped you get the code to [...]
