NC Criminal Law

Joseph L. Hyde on Friday, January 30th, 2026

Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder, pled not guilty on Monday to running a lucrative drug trafficking ring. PBS has the story. Wedding competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list last March. Wedding was arrested in Mexico last week and flown to California. He is alleged to...

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The state must give notice to the defendant of any expert witnesses that the state reasonably expects to call as a witness at trial.

The superior court has jurisdiction to accept a guilty plea to a misdemeanor tendered in lieu of a felony charge.

A defendant has a Sixth Amendment right to counsel during interrogation by an officer or an informant about a pending charge after adversarial judicial proceedings for that charge have begun.

The court may take judicial notice of adjudicative facts that are not subject to any reasonable dispute if the facts are common knowledge in the jurisdiction or can be easily determined by reference to reliable sources.

The superior court has general jurisdiction over all felonies, as well as any misdemeanors which are lesser-included offenses of the felony, joined with the felony, or initiated by grand jury presentment. G.S. 7A-271(a).