<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>North Carolina Criminal Law</title>
	<atom:link href="http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?feed=rss2" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw</link>
	<description>UNC School of Government Blog</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
			<item>
		<title>Consecutive Sentences for Misdemeanors</title>
		<link>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=879</link>
		<comments>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=879#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Welty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Sentencing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[consecutive]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[misdemeanors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[remley]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=879</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by School of Government faculty member Jamie Markham
A while ago, Alyson Grine and I wrote a post about consecutive sentences for misdemeanors. In it, we discussed the rule that when a court elects to impose consecutive sentences for two or more misdemeanors, the cumulative length of the sentences of imprisonment may not exceed twice the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?feed=rss2&amp;p=879</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>District Court is in Session . . . But for How Long?</title>
		<link>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=876</link>
		<comments>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=876#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Welty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Procedure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sentencing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[district court]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[prior record level]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sessions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=876</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s note: This post has been revised slightly in response to a helpful comment from a reader.
by School of Government faculty member and Defender Educator Alyson Grine
A district court session usually lasts one day, so many court actors have gotten in the habit of thinking that a district court session is a day as a [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?feed=rss2&amp;p=876</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Heller . . . Britt . . . What&#8217;s Next for Gun Laws?</title>
		<link>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=873</link>
		<comments>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=873#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Welty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Crimes and Elements]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Britt]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[firearms]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[guns]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Heller]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mcdonald]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[second amendment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve seen several significant cases concerning gun laws in the past few years. The two biggest, of course, are District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. ___ (2008), in which the United States Supreme Court struck down the District of Columbia&#8217;s ban on handgun possession as inconsistent with the Second Amendment, and Britt v. North [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?feed=rss2&amp;p=873</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Drug Dogs</title>
		<link>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=870</link>
		<comments>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=870#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Welty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Search and Seizure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[canines]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dogs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[expectation of privacy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fourth amendment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sniffs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=870</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The court of appeals issued a batch of opinions yesterday. Among them is State v. Washburn, a drug dog case. An extremely compressed summary of Washburn is that an informant told the police that the defendant was a drug dealer and kept drugs at his house and at a storage unit. Based on the tip, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?feed=rss2&amp;p=870</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Another Batch of Satellite-Based Monitoring Cases</title>
		<link>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=862</link>
		<comments>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=862#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Welty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Procedure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sentencing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ex post facto]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[interim policy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[satellite based monitoring]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sex offenders]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=862</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by School of Government faculty member Jamie Markham
The last round of opinions from the court of appeals included three related to satellite-based monitoring (SBM) of sex offenders. None of them broke any major new ground, but two more dissents show that nothing is fully settled in this rapidly evolving area.
In State v. Gardner, the court [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?feed=rss2&amp;p=862</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Using Other Bad Acts to Prove Malice in a Vehicular Homicide Case</title>
		<link>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=851</link>
		<comments>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=851#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Welty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Crimes and Elements]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Evidence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[driving]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[DWI]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[malice]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[second degree murder]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tellez]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=851</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by School of Government faculty member Shea Denning
Among the most recent batch of opinions issued by the Court of Appeals was State v. Tellez, in which the court upheld the defendant&#8217;s conviction of two counts of second-degree murder and one count of felonious hit and run arising from a fatal car crash. Here are the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?feed=rss2&amp;p=851</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Blog Outage!</title>
		<link>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=857</link>
		<comments>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=857#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Welty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[blog outage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=857</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed that the blog &#8212; along with the rest of the School of Government&#8217;s website &#8212; was down most of the day Friday. I was unable to access it, just like you, so I couldn&#8217;t post anything. It seems that the technological glitch has been resolved, so I plan to be back [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?feed=rss2&amp;p=857</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Defense Access to Stored Electronic Communications</title>
		<link>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=854</link>
		<comments>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=854#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Welty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Procedure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Search and Seizure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[electronic evidence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[email]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[stored communications act]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=854</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned last week, I have a new publication entitled Prosecution and Law Enforcement Access to Information about Electronic Communications. It&#8217;s meant to be useful on a range of topics, from phone records and wiretapping, but the most detailed discussion concerns email, text messages, and other stored electronic communications. The very, very simplified version [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?feed=rss2&amp;p=854</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>News Roundup</title>
		<link>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=848</link>
		<comments>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=848#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Welty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[news]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=848</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First off, it&#8217;s Veterans&#8217; Day. Thanks to all who have served &#8212; including Jamie Markham, who regularly contributes to this blog &#8212; and Godspeed to those who are in harm&#8217;s way today.
In other recent news:
1. Two North Carolina judges have just been nominated to the Fourth Circuit: Jim Wynn, who currently sits on the court [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?feed=rss2&amp;p=848</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Mello and &#8220;Loitering for Drugs&#8221; Ordinances</title>
		<link>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=844</link>
		<comments>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=844#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Welty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Crimes and Elements]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[drug offenses]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[loitering]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mello]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[overbreadth]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vagueness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?p=844</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Can a municipality adopt an ordinance that criminalizes loitering for the purpose of drug activity? I&#8217;ve been asked that question several times, and in fact, a number of North Carolina municipalities have such ordinances. See, e.g., Charlotte Code of Ordinances § 15-23; Hickory Code of Ordinances § 29-22(d). The answer is generally yes, though such [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/ncclaw/?feed=rss2&amp;p=844</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
