by Michelle Sparrow | Jul 22, 2011 | Criminal Law Blog, Drug Crimes
The U.S. Sentencing Commission recently announced the retroactive application of guidelines adopted in the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. The unanimous decision could result in reduced sentences for as many as 12,000 offenders in prison on crack cocaine charges.... by Michelle Sparrow | Jul 20, 2011 | Criminal Law Blog, Homicide
At the end of June, a Wake County judge declared a mistrial in a highly publicized Raleigh-area criminal case. The 37-year-old defendant was accused of the murder of his pregnant wife. After three days of deliberating, the jury was unable to come to a decision. The... by Michelle Sparrow | Jul 15, 2011 | Criminal Defense, Criminal Law Blog
Earlier this week, the North Carolina State Patrol issued its final accident report on the June 20, 2011 crash on Interstate 40. The accident left three dead and the driver of the tractor trailer that started the chain reaction facing multiple criminal charges. One... by Michelle Sparrow | Jul 13, 2011 | Criminal Defense, Criminal Law Blog
We were talking about a new law in North Carolina that will allow 16- and 17-year-olds to ask the courts to have their criminal records expunged. The crimes in question must be nonviolent felonies. Violent crimes will stay on their records. The new law only applies to... by Michelle Sparrow | Jul 8, 2011 | Criminal Defense, Criminal Law Blog
Governor Perdue recently signed a bill into law that will allow North Carolina’s courts to expunge the records of 16- and 17-year-olds charged with or convicted of nonviolent felonies. An expungement erases a criminal charge or conviction from the record,...