We’ve long believed that the North Carolina Criminal Law Blog is the best, but now we have proof. A reader pointed me to this list of blogs run by law professors. Our traffic would put us among the top 25 blogs on the list. More significantly, we would be the only single-state blog in the top 50, and so the most popular single-state law professor blog in the country. It looks like we’re not eligible for inclusion on the list because we aren’t law professors at a law school, but we won’t technicalities stop us from claiming the crown! In other news: More scary in real life? In honor of Halloween, check out these pumpkins, carved to resemble the Justices of the United States Supreme Court. The craftsmanship is pretty impressive. Miller retroactivity. Sentencing Law and Policy notes here that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania just ruled that Miller v. Alabama, __ U.S. __, 132 S.Ct. 2455 (2012) (holding that the automatic imposition of LWOP on juvenile murderers violates the Eighth Amendment), is not retroactive. The retroactivity issue is pending before the appellate courts in North Carolina, has split courts nationally, and appears likely to require final resolution by the pumpkins the United States Supreme Court. Rule 404(b) must work differently in Maryland. The Baltimore Sun reports here that Nelson Clifford has been acquitted in four straight jury trials over the past three years. In each case, he was charged with rape and his accuser testified against him. It sounds as [...]
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