Raleigh city leaders are considering a juvenile curfew and other public-safety measures after an estimated 8,000 young people gathered in the Briar Creek and Glenwood South areas during Fourth of July celebrations. According to Raleigh Police Chief...
NC Criminal Law
#NCPROTIP
Displaying 11 - 15 of 60
The superior court has jurisdiction to accept a guilty plea to a misdemeanor tendered in lieu of a felony charge.
The court is not bound by the rules of evidence (except for rules on privilege) when deciding whether challenged evidence is admissible.
A defendant may plead guilty or not guilty, or, with the consent of the prosecutor and judge, may plead “no contest.” See G.S. 15A-1011(a), (b).
When a statute sets forth disjunctive or alternative ways by which an offense may be committed, a warrant or indictment should charge them conjunctively, linking the alternatives by the word “and” instead of “or”.
A judge may accept an Alford plea, in which a defendant pleads guilty but does not admit committing the offense and protests his or her innocence, if the record strongly supports the defendant’s guilt and the defendant intelligently concludes that it is in his or her interest to enter such a plea. The consent of the prosecutor is not required.
- ‹ Previous
- 3 of 12
- Next ›