All Episodes

50 mins #26 Jul 07, 26

Episode 26: NC Criminal Debrief

This episode covers recent decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court and the North Carolina Supreme Court addressing Second Amendment rights and marijuana use, jury selection, and probable cause in the age of legal cannabis.

53 mins #25 May 11, 26

Episode 25: NC Criminal Debrief

This episode covers federal reclassification efforts on marijuana and certain psychedelics, as well as recent cases on digital privacy, tenant privacy, and increased punishment following a successful appeal.

45 mins #24 Mar 02, 26

Episode 24: NC Criminal Debrief

This episode covers recent decisions state and federal cases. Topics include the emergency aid exception to the warrant requirement, free speech issues in criminal cases, substitute analyst issues, and the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule.

50 mins #23 Dec 18, 25

Episode 23: NC Criminal Debrief

This episode covers recent federal developments regarding hemp, as well as recent decisions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals on Good Samaritan immunity, offers of compromise, and fighting words.

49 mins #22 Dec 10, 25

Episode 22: NC Criminal Debrief

Episode 22 discusses recent cases from the North Carolina Supreme Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals covering North Carolina’s recent adoption of the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule, access to law enforcement recordings by district court defendants, and North Carolina’s felon disenfranchisement law.

45 mins #21 Aug 25, 25

Episode 21: NC Criminal Debrief

This episode covers recent cases from the North Carolina Court of Appeals and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on criminal contempt, drug recognition expert testimony, cannabis, and search and seizure.

45 mins #20 Jul 25, 25

Episode 20: NC Criminal Debrief

This episode covers new state legislation affecting criminal law, including the new crime of exposing a child to a controlled substance and a new cap on the time in which state post-conviction relief can be sought, as well as a recent Confrontation Clause case from the North Carolina Court of [...]

51 mins #19 Jun 24, 25

Episode 19: NC Criminal Debrief

This episode covers recent developments in North Carolina regarding juror substitutions during deliberations, self-defense law, and constitutional challenges to NC’s firearm by felon law, as well as the recent en banc decision by the Fourth Circuit on geofencing warrants and more.

63 mins #18 Mar 20, 25

Episode 18: NC Criminal Debrief

This episode discusses recent cases decided by the North Carolina Court of Appeals on cannabis, Second Amendment challenges, units of prosecution, and sentencing issues.

55 mins #17 Feb 25, 25

Episode 17: NC Criminal Debrief

This episode covers recent Second Amendment developments, cases addressing challenges to prejudicial and irrelevant evidence, and a North Carolina Supreme Court decision on the Confrontation Clause.

50 mins #16 Jan 23, 25

Episode 16: NC Criminal Debrief

This episode covers recent case law developments on plain feel doctrine, probable cause, and pill bottles, constructive possession, failure to store firearms to protect minors, and THC-O.

48 mins #15 Dec 12, 24

Episode 15: NC Criminal Debrief

This episode covers the new state crime of sexual extortion, amendments to our state exploitation and disclose of private images offenses, a cannabis update, geofencing warrants, and more.

41 mins #14 Nov 14, 24

Episode 14: NC Criminal Debrief

This episode covers recent Second Amendment developments from the U.S. Supreme Court and the Fourth Circuit, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court decision on substitute analysts, Smith v. Arizona.

55 mins #13 Jun 20, 24

Episode 13: NC Criminal Debrief

This episode covers the first successful Second Amendment challenge to a North Carolina criminal law, evidentiary challenges with marijuana prosecutions, and preservation of motions to suppress.

54 mins #12 Apr 19, 24

Episode 12: NC Criminal Debrief

This episode discusses recent legislation, including the expansion of the public defender system in the state and felony pleas in district court, along with cases on search and seizure in the age of legal hemp, the Confrontation Clause, plea bargaining, and sentencing.

60 mins #11 Apr 10, 24

Episode 11: NC Criminal Debrief

This episode highlights recent state search and seizure cases, new state criminal law legislation, prayers for judgment continued (“PJCs”), and more.

60 mins #10 Nov 15, 23

Episode 10: NC Criminal Debrief

This episode covers the U.S. Supreme Court’s denial of review in State v. Diaz-Tomas regarding dismissal with leave, the Court’s grant of review in the substitute analyst case of Smith v. Arizona, the North Carolina Supreme Court’s decision in State v. Arthur on drug identification, and recent legislation in the [...]

36 mins #9 Jun 22, 23

Episode 9: NC Criminal Debrief

This episode discusses recent legislation, including changes to satellite-based monitoring and a new offense of misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, as well as recent state cases on constructive possession, Harbison error, and expert testimony.

50 mins #8 Jun 15, 23

Episode 8: NC Criminal Debrief

This episode discusses the filings at the U.S. Supreme Court in State v. Diaz-Tomas, monetary obligations in criminal cases, recent state legislation, as well as cases on courtroom closures and capacity to proceed.

46 mins #7 Mar 03, 23

Episode 7: NC Criminal Debrief

This episode covers the latest in criminal law, including artificial intelligence and the law, harm reduction laws, khat, the constitutionality of disorderly conducts laws, live-streaming the police, the exclusionary rule at probation, and more.