Articles Posted in Writ of Certiorari After Guilty Plea NC

The North Carolina Court of Appeals filed State v. Alston, No. COA25-291, on February 18, 2026, resolving an appeal arising from a driving-while-impaired conviction entered upon an Alford plea in Alamance County Superior Court. The opinion addresses two distinct issues that arise regularly in DWI defense practice: What the totality-of-the-circumstances…