North Carolina Office of Indigent Defense Services
Susan Brooks, Ombudsperson to the NC State Crime Laboratory released a report prepared pursuant to N.C.G.S. 114-62 on June 12, 2024. The full Report is available here. The Report makes no recommendations for the lab’s technical operations, but makes several recommendations in four areas: The Report recognizes that several of these recommendations would require significant …
2024 Report of the State Crime Lab Ombudsperson releasedRead More
Live webinar presented by Victoria Reynolds, Ph.D. and Barbara Lagemann, JDJune 27, 2024, 12:30pm90 min of CLE credit This presentation will provide information about the dynamics present in relationships involving Intimate Partner/Domestic Violence (IPV/DV) and how these dynamics may impact criminal and child protection cases. Presentation of a case study from the perspective of an attorney experienced in defending …
What Attorneys Need to Know about Intimate Partner/Domestic ViolenceRead More
Live webinar presented by Rohan Parekh, MS, PhDJune 6, 2024, 12:30pm90 min of CLE credit anticipated Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry is a powerful analytical tool for separating and identifying the components of forensic samples. This presentation will explain how the method works and its forensic use in testing blood or urine for the presence of controlled …
Would you like to see where evidence is tested at the State Crime Lab and learn more about the methods used at the Lab? The NC State Crime Laboratory is offering a tour of the Lab in Raleigh for criminal defense attorneys and investigators. The tour will take place on June 14, 2024 at 10:00 …
This update was originally posted on Apr. 10, 2024 on North Carolina Criminal Law, a UNC School of Government Blog available here. In Part I of my Spring 2024 cannabis update, I discussed the search and seizure issues arising in North Carolina courts around cannabis. Part II explores drug identification evidence issues surrounding marijuana prosecutions and examines …
This update was originally posted on Apr. 8, 2024 on North Carolina Criminal Law, a UNC School of Government Blog available here. It has been a while since my last post on cannabis and criminal law issues, and it is past time for an update. In addition to a number of state cases grappling with …
Free live webinar, offered by NACDL Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 1:00 pm ET Social media evidence is everywhere. In the digital age, law enforcement is savvy enough to pull information about your client’s online presence and use it against them in criminal proceedings. Getting this data and challenging it are skills every modern defense attorney …
Webinar: Defense Strategies for Getting (and Challenging) Social Media EvidenceRead More
Live webinar presented by Korin E. Leffler, PhD, MSEHMay 2, 2024, 12:30pm90 min of CLE credit This presentation will cover the pharmacology and toxicology of central nervous system stimulants in the human body and how they affect the brain. Content and discussion will focus on amphetamines and methamphetamines and explore the relationship between the drugs …
Stimulants and the Brain: What Attorneys Need to KnowRead More
If you enjoy YouTube as much as my kids do, but are tired of MrBeast and ready for some informative digital forensics content, check out the material that Envista Forensics is creating. Lars Daniel has a 6-minute video on different types of cell phones extractions, with an explanation of why full file system (advanced extractions) …
Digital forensics educational videos YouTube channelRead More
Free-to-attend webinar offered by NACDL
Webinar – Tiny Constables: Automatic License Plate Readers and the Fourth AmendmentRead More
In some cases involving cell phone extractions, public defenders and other criminal defense attorneys are being provided with incomplete discovery. When the prosecution provides only PDF and UFED Reader reports to defense counsel, this is not complete discovery. While the UFED Reader reports can be helpful in navigating the phone’s data, the UFED Reader is …
One-day online symposium Mar. 14, 2024 at 9:15 am GMT, 5:15 am ETHosted by the University of Sunderland More information and registration is available here. If you are an attorney handling cases involving clients or witnesses who are neurodiverse, or have a diagnosis of autism or ADHD, you may be interested in this program. The …
Seeing and Treating Neurodiverse Individuals in the Criminal Justice SystemRead More
Live webinar presented by Courtney Lockhart McMickens, M.D., M.P.H., M.H.S.April 4, 2024, 12:30pm90 min of CLE credit anticipated This presentation will define and discuss the concept of structural competency related to mental health. The influence of traumatic stress and social structures on the identification, treatment, and outcomes of mental health concerns will be reviewed. Lastly, there will …
Barriers to accessing mental health care and their impacts on our clientsRead More
Since President’s Day is not a state holiday, I took advantage of the day to spend some time with some important leaders in my world, the experts that are listed in our online database of experts! Our category of medical experts was unwieldy. With over 50 experts from a variety of medical fields listed there, …
In the United States, disabled individuals are over-represented as both victims of crime and those accused of crimes compared with their non-disabled counterparts. This overrepresentation is even higher for those with disabilities and other marginalized identities. NACDL and RespectAbility are offering a 60-minute webinar will cover the basics of disability, etiquette and language, and inclusion, …
