"Office Hours" This Week

Published for NC Criminal Law on October 02, 2017.

This Thursday at lunchtime (12:30 to 1:30) we will host our monthly “office hours” conference call. Shea Denning, Phil Dixon, and I will discuss recent developments in criminal law and will do our best to answer listeners’ questions. The event seems to be building an audience, and this month, we’d like to invite folks to submit questions or topic suggestions in advance, by posting a comment to this blog post or by email as described below. We will continue taking live questions on the call as well. I suspect we’ll find time to talk about electronic surveillance. There’s a new out-of-state opinion about Stingrays and the Fourth Amendment, and the Supreme Court is getting ready to hear a major case about cell phone tracking. We’ll bring some other topics to the table, too, but as usual, we’ll let listeners drive the direction of the call. Read on for more details. What is it? This monthly informal and interactive conference call offers judicial officials and other court actors the opportunity to talk directly with a variety of Judicial College faculty and staff members about developments in criminal law. The format is more conversation than lecture and there is no pre-set agenda. You call in and also log in via computer to be able to submit questions and receive messages from the presenters via a “chat” feature. How do I join? What does it cost? There’s no need to register in advance, and there’s no cost. Just follow the log in instructions below. [...]