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What is North Carolina’s Structured Sentencing Scheme?

In the mid-1990s North Carolina created a structured sentencing system for misdemeanors and felonies committed after December 1, 1995. I recently observed a case where the alleged crime had been committed in 1992, and in that case the defendant was sentenced under the old North Carolina sentencing system. But for all felonies or misdemeanors alleged to have ...

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