North Carolina Criminal Lawyers

When someone is killed by a drunk driver, it’s a tragedy. Preventing such deaths should be of major concern. The Charlotte Observer published an editorial this week suggesting the best way to do this is by strengthening laws to more harshly penalize drunk drivers. [read more...]

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 a useful tool in alcohol offense control. [read more...]