Consecutive Sentences for Criminal Contempt

Published for NC Criminal Law on August 11, 2016.

One of the first posts I wrote on this blog was about the punishment for criminal contempt. The post included a discussion about whether sentences for contempt could be run consecutively—something our appellate courts hadn’t yet ruled on at the time. In State v. Burrow, decided last week, the court of appeals approved a trial ... Read more

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