News Roundup

Next week, from Wednesday to Friday, the School of Government is virtually hosting the Public Defender Attorney and Investigator Conference.  The event is co-sponsored by the Office of Indigent Defense Services, the North Carolina Association of Public Defenders, and the North Carolina Association of Public Defender Investigators.  Held through the Zoom webinar platform, the event is open to IDS employees, private assigned counsel, and contract attorneys handling indigent criminal and delinquency cases.  Registration is open until midnight on Sunday, August 16.  You can sign up and find more information here.  Keep reading for more news. College Parties.  The return of college students to campuses across the country in recent weeks means a return to college parties, despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.  As a local example, ABC 11 reports that the ECU Police Department already has shut down 20 parties since the start of the semester in Greenville, one of which had more than 400 students in attendance.  According to the ABC report, officers are giving warnings to students at parties but will consider more serious enforcement action if they have to return to the same event multiple times. Flynn Hearing.  This week the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals held an en banc hearing to determine if the federal judge presiding over the criminal case against former national security advisor Michael Flynn will be allowed to rule on whether prosecutors may dismiss the case against Flynn. When the News Roundup last noted the Flynn case, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan had taken the [...]