Carolina Law Blog

February 21, 2015

Charlotte Experienced Legal Counsel

Modified Transcript of “Charlotte Experienced Legal Counsel” for the Hearing Impaired:

How do I understand how to represent a serious felony? The simple answer is hard knocks, it’s life.

It’s being in the trenches and fighting for someone’s life and their livelihood and their family and their well being. There is no substitute for experience in a court room, and you can learn all the law and you can read all the cases and you can spend a lot of time looking over Discovery, and to me frankly that’s the beginning of point.

February 21, 2015

Are Miranda Rights Required?

by Carolina Attorneys

Modified Transcript of “Are Miranda Rights Required?” for the Hearing Impaired:

The single most common statement we hear from clients after the fact, after they’ve been arrested, is, “I wasn’t given my Miranda Rights, and as such, aren’t the charges or the case supposed to be dismissed?”

Upon making an arrest, a law-enforcement officer must:

February 20, 2015

Reasonable Doubt in Charlotte

by Carolina Attorneys

Reasonable Doubt A reasonable doubt is a doubt based on reason and common sense arising out of some or all of the evidence that has been presented, or lack or insufficiency of the evidence as the case may be. Proof beyond a reasonable doubt is proof that fully satisfies or entirely convinces you of the defendant’s guilt.

Legal Reference Materials: NC Judicial College Jury Instructions Notebook Materials

Modified Transcript of “Reasonable Doubt in Charlotte” for the Hearing Impaired:

February 20, 2015

Provisional DWI in NC

by Carolina Attorneys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Xh_t1Bg9I

It is unlawful for a person less than 21 years old to drive a motor vehicle on a highway or public vehicular area while consuming alcohol or at any time while he has remaining in his body any alcohol or controlled substance previously consumed, but a person less than 21 years old does not violate this section if he drives with a controlled substance in his body which was lawfully obtained and taken in therapeutically appropriate amounts.

Modified Transcript of “Provisional DWI in NC” for the Hearing Impaired NCGS 20-138.3:

February 17, 2015

Charlotte Mecklenburg District Court Judges Schedule – Calendar Year 2015

by Carolina Attorneys

Charlotte Mecklenburg District Court Judges Schedule – Calendar Year 2015 is broken down into three periods:

January through May 2015
May through September 2015

February 17, 2015

Charlotte Mecklenburg Court Holidays

by Carolina Attorneys

Charlotte Mecklenburg Court Holidays are as follows:

January 1, 2015 – New Years – Thursday
January 19, 2015 – MLK – Monday

February 16, 2015

Are Charlotte Courts Closed

by Carolina Attorneys

Bread, Eggs & Milk – Are Charlotte Courts Closed?

Yankees may laugh, but the truth of the matter is, no one can drive on ice. And while the Winter Storm of 2015 may be a non-event for those north of the Mason-Dixon line, at least in Charlotte, North Carolina, when weather gurus predict snow, freezing rain and the most dreaded of all, “BLACK ICE,” it gets people’s attention.

As Boston and the upper East-Coastal states brace for another foot or more of snow due to the latest Nor’Easter, much of the Charlotte-Metro region may be scrambling to make child care, work and personal arrangements with only a chance of freezing temperatures and any form of precipitation.