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The North Carolina Structured Sentencing Act was adopted and implemented in order to give the judge a specific set of standards to follow when sentencing a person. There was a need to change the way that criminals were sentenced in order to lower the prison population, and ensure that the people that were spending time in prison were there for necessary reasons, and that they were serving an ...
Completing its work in 1958, the committee recommended consolidating the state's courts into a unified General Court of Justice. [5] New "District Courts" were proposed to succeed the recorder's courts and justice of the peace courts as standard local trial courts. [6] [7] Through the late 1950s and 1960s, North Carolina's judicial system was ...
In North Carolina, magistrates are officers of District Court. Most magistrates are not lawyers. [4] In criminal cases, a magistrate may issue warrants, set bail, accept guilty pleas, and so forth. In civil cases, the most common duty of a magistrate is to preside over small claims court. [5] [6]
At the direction of the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, a special superior court judge may convene the North Carolina Business Court [8] to oversee trials involving complex questions of corporate and commercial law. [1] [17] Ben F. Tennille was the first appointed Business Court judge.
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday reduced the sentences of four people and issued pardons to four others. “Ensuring thorough review of cases while taking executive clemency action is a ...
Mandatory sentencing laws vary across nations; they are more prevalent in common law jurisdictions because civil law jurisdictions usually prescribe minimum and maximum sentences for every type of crime in explicit laws. They can be applied to crimes ranging from minor offences to extremely violent crimes including murder.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office said in a court filing last November that it had brought 437 cases including a felony charge for falsifying business records in the decade before ...
The United States District Court for the District of North Carolina was established on June 4, 1790, by 1 Stat. 126. [2] [3] On June 9, 1794, it was subdivided into three districts by 1 Stat. 395, [3] but on March 3, 1797, the three districts were abolished and the single District restored by 1 Stat. 517, [3] until April 29, 1802, when the state was again subdivided into three different ...