If you thought that last week’s announcement of the 2013 Punishment Chart for North Carolina Crimes and Motor Vehicle Offenses was exciting, you will be even more entranced by this week’s offering! Yes, the 2013 update to Arrest Warrant and Indictment Forms is now available! We’re still waiting for the Publisher’s Weekly review, but if you are looking for a good read that includes charging language for offenses like armed habitual felon or habitual misdemeanor larceny, it’s the only game in town. And it’s available for free here. In other news: DA to drop charges in UNC no-show classes case? According to this News and Observer story, “Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall said Monday that he is giving ‘serious consideration’ to dropping a felony criminal fraud charge against the former department chairman at the center of a long-running academic scandal at UNC-Chapel Hill. Woodall said Julius Nyang’oro’s cooperation with a new probe led by former federal prosecutor Kenneth Wainstein has so far shown to be truthful and fruitful.” Another federal case from NC headed to SCOTUS. In the past few years, two of the state’s three federal public defender offices have been to the high court. Now, the third office, Federal Defenders of Western North Carolina, is in on the game, getting certiorari granted in Whitfield v. United States. SCOTUSBlog’s coverage of the case is here. The question presented is “Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e), which provides a minimum sentence of ten years in prison and a maximum sentence of [...]
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