
Cocaine cases in North Carolina can be punished in either state or federal courts, and through a variety of laws. In state court, cocaine is punished always as a felony - possession, possession with intent to sell, manufacture, and deliver, or sale and delivery of cocaine and, in cases involving 28 grams or more of...
In 2018, Austria - a country of roughly 9 million people and 32,000 square miles with a diverse population, especially around its capital of Vienna - recorded 70 homicides, a increase of more than 20 percent over the previous year. That is a rate of less than 1 homicide per 100,000 people. By contrast, North...
If you've been stopped while driving or cited for a crime, chances are that you have received a North Carolina Uniform Citation, a single page document that, front and back, explains the charge or charges that have been issued against you. If you've received a citation, you haven't been arrested and detained, but you have...
The United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina announced nearly two dozen arrests in a federal drug trafficking ring at UNC, Duke, and Appalachian State this month in conduct he is calling "astonishing." The arrests triggered initial appearances in federal court in Greensboro this month, and additional arrests may follow as prosecutors...
Here come the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and CARES Act Fraud cases. In March of 2020, Congress passed and President Trump signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus bill that also included a whole host of federal responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. CARES Act...
Does "United States judicial law explicitly prohibit[] judges from considering rehabilitation when sentencing"? Yes, says Darrell Owens, someone who has the right sympathies about the cruelty of American prisons, but not much of a grasp on the law. Any federal criminal lawyer knows that rehabilitation must be taken into account when a judge sentences a...
In every day speech, drug trafficking implies the large scale shipment of drugs across international borders, conjuring up images of Pablo Escobar or the Netflix show Narcos. In the legal world, however, drug trafficking is simply a term of art that describes the common sale or distribution of drugs, whether through hand-to-hand drug sales on...
Being pulled over on suspicion of having drugs in your vehicle can be a frightening experience, and all you may be thinking about is the potential for getting arrested and sent to prison. But remember, you haven’t even been arrested yet, much less tried and convicted! If you act calmly, know your rights and exercise...
Up until the mid-1990s, North Carolina had a sentencing system called Fair Sentencing. The major criticisms of Fair Sentencing were that: There was no truth in sentencing. The actual sentence served was usually much lower than the stated sentence at sentencing. There was disparity in how people were treated from place to place, and defendant...
There's a reason why police officers continue to kill mostly black people around the country. It's because they know that even in the rare cases where they are charged, they probably won't be convicted. And even if they walk into the wrong home and gun down a guy who was just enjoying some ice cream,...
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