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• Court of Appeals Finds No Constitutional Violations Related to Pre-Raise the Age Prosecution in Criminal Court

  This entry was contributed by Jacquelyn Greene on February 22, 2022 at 1:46 pm and is filed under Jurisdiction, Juvenile Justice, Juvenile Law.

  Were the constitutional rights of defendants who were prosecuted as adults in criminal court for offenses that they committed at ages 16 or 17, and prior to December 1, 2019, violated because the jurisdictional changes under raise the age were not retroactive? The North Carolina Court of Appeals does not think so. The decision in State v. Garrett, 2021-NCCOA-591, answers this question. Continue Reading

• DVPOs for Same-Sex Dating Relationships?

  This entry was contributed by Jeff Welty on August 15, 2017 at 10:47 am and is filed under Domestic Violence.

  This post is also published on the NC Criminal Law blog. 

  Domestic violence protective orders (DVPOs) are available to “persons of the opposite sex who are . . . or have been in a dating relationship,” and who are able to establish that the person that they are or were dating committed an act of domestic violence against them. Persons of the same sex who are or were in a dating relationship don’t have the same opportunity. Is that constitutional? The Supreme Court of South Carolina just addressed a related question, and its opinion suggests that the answer is no. Continue Reading