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		<title>NC DWI Courts Can’t Use Alcohol Detection Ankle Bracelets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Charlotte Observer published an interesting article this week exposing a little known fact about North Carolina treatment courts: that they cannot use the ankle bracelets designed to detect alcohol in the body. Due to a committee decision in 2007 judges in these treatment courts aren’t allowed to utilize what some other state’s see as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shake-Up At NC Crime Lab</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) is under new leadership as the former chief was recently removed and placed in another position within the state’s Department of Justice. Her removal follows serious criticism of the crime lab under her direction and her recent acknowledgement of ignorance to many of the Bureau’s policies. According to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Carolina Experiences Dramatic Crime Drop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[North Carolina crime rates for 2009 are at the lowest rate in 25 years according to the Raleigh News-Observer. The state experienced the sharpest single year drop ever since they began collecting the data in 1973. Not surprisingly, however, no one can agree on what’s causing the decrease. Watching the news you wouldn’t know crime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New DWI Court in North Carolina</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Winston-Salem area is looking to streamline DWI cases as Forsyth County adds a DWI specific court, and works to get through the backlog of DWI cases that have piled up.According to the Winston-Salem Journal, the problem started after the US Supreme Court&#8217;s Melendez-Diaz ruling changed the way evidence is handled in DWI cases. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NC Mental Health Courts Studied and Praised</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A study was released this week analyzing the effectiveness of mental health courts on arrest rates. Recidivism is the term used to describe someone’s chances of being rearrested after entering the system. According to this Psychiatric News article, recidivism was significantly lower in people who were processed through mental health courts as opposed to traditional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charlotte NRA Conference Brings Both Sides of Gun Control to Attention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, Charlotte will hold its largest convention ever. Over 70,000 members of the National Rifle Association are expected to arrive in the city for two days of meetings, gun shows, and sharing of gun control views. On the other side of the spectrum, people are saying the NRA goes too far in promoting gun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Carolina Governor Aims to Cut Crime and Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like nearly every state in this country, North Carolina is feeling simultaneous budget constraints and rising costs of corrections. As stated in the Raleigh News and Observer, Governor Perdue states that we “can’t build prisons fast enough”. It has taken extreme budget shortfalls to bring attention to the problems of mass incarceration—but at least the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magazine in NC’s Triangle Region Blasts Informants in Drug/Conspiracy Case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last July a local hip hop artist Donald Stanton “Face” Shealey was sentenced to life in a federal prison for drug trafficking and money-laundering. A magazine recently released in the Raleigh area exposes details of his case including informants and details of co-defendants plea agreements. The publication claims to be just an attempt at “real” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mynorthcarolinadefenselawyer.com/2010/01/magazine-in-nc%e2%80%99s-triangle-region-blasts-informants-in-drugconspiracy-case/</link>
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		<title>Heroin Deaths On The Rise in Charlotte</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The year isn’t over and already Heroin Deaths in Charlotte have more than tripled from last year. According to this report from the Charlotte Observer, from 2008, overdoses are up 25 from 8 to 33 while deaths from the drug are up from 3 to 10, and we still have 2 months to go. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wake County Couple had Violent History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a heartbreaking case this week a mother was shot and killed outside of her children’s daycare by a man who had previously assaulted her and with whom she was trying to distance herself. Thirty year old Jammie Shantel Street had just dropped off her three children at their daycare in Fuquay Varina when the [...]]]></description>
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