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Death by Distribution

CSFRE Webinar Series on Drug Related Deaths

March 4, 2026 //  by Sarah Olson

The Center for Forensic Science Research and Education (CFSRE), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Network of Public Health Institute (NNPHI), and the Public Health Institute (PHI), announced a new no-cost webinar series focusing attention on drug-caused and drug-related deaths. This 10-part webinar series brings together medicolegal death investigators, forensic …

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Category: TrainingsForensic Discipline: Death by Distribution, Death Investigation, Toxicology

Investigating and Certifying Drug Caused and Related Deaths: 2026 Updates and Challenges

February 26, 2026 //  by Sarah Olson

Free 10-part webinar series on toxicology and drug-related deaths offered by CFSRE

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Resource Category: TrainingsResource Source: CFSREForensic Discipline: Death by Distribution, Death Investigation, Toxicology

Scientist on front lines of overdose crisis receives MacArthur ‘genius’ award

October 8, 2025 //  by Sarah Olson

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Article Source: WUNCForensic Discipline: Death by Distribution, Drug Analysis, Toxicology

Defending Drug Overdose Homicides Trainings

September 12, 2025 //  by Sarah Olson

Free recorded presentations, sample pleadings and more offered by NACDL

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Resource Category: TrainingsResource Source: NACDLForensic Discipline: Death by Distribution

North Carolina Overdose Epidemic Data

March 19, 2025 //  by Sarah Olson

NC Department of Health and Human Services Division of Public Health webpage compiling overdose data by county

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Resource Category: WebsitesResource Source: NC DHHSForensic Discipline: Death by Distribution

Affidavit of Jennifer Carroll, PhD, MPH, MA

March 17, 2025 //  by Sarah Olson

Addresses public health consequences of laws creating criminal liability for accidental drug overdose and provides research supporting the following conclusions:

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Resource Category: Motions and BriefsForensic Discipline: Death by Distribution

Appellant Reply Brief in State v. Anderson

March 17, 2025 //  by Sarah Olson

Addresses defendant’s motion to dismiss where evidence on causation was insufficient, failure to instruct the jury on intervening acts of others, failure to instruct the jury on lesser included offense of involuntary manslaughter when the evidence of malice was in conflict, and court’s failure to intervene in state’s closing argument. Reply Brief filed in June …

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Resource Category: Motions and BriefsForensic Discipline: Death by Distribution

Appellant Brief in State v. Anderson

March 17, 2025 //  by Sarah Olson

Appellant’s Brief addressing trial court’s denial of defendant’s motion to dismiss where the state did not prove the defendant’s actions proximately caused the decedents’ deaths and another individual’s actions were a superseding cause of the decedents’ deaths which broke the chain of causation. Also addresses trial court’s failure to instruct on whether intentional acts by …

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Resource Category: Motions and BriefsForensic Discipline: Death by Distribution

State v. Anderson, 294 N.C. App. 125 (2024) (unpublished)

March 17, 2025 //  by Sarah Olson

Unpublished Court of Appeals opinion addressing proximate cause, chain of causation, intervening acts, and jury instructions on intervening cause and involuntary manslaughter.

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Resource Category: CasesForensic Discipline: Death by Distribution

Appellant Brief in State v. McCrorey

March 17, 2025 //  by Sarah Olson

Addresses complex chain of causation, proximate cause, identify of the controlled substance, and cause of death. Brief filed in Aug. 2023 in 2020 case.

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Resource Category: Motions and BriefsForensic Discipline: Death by Distribution

Pattern Jury Instruction 206.76

March 17, 2025 //  by Sarah Olson

Death by Distribution Through Unlawful Delivery with Malice of Certain Controlled Substances

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Resource Category: Pattern Jury InstructionsForensic Discipline: Death by Distribution

Pattern Jury Instruction 206.74

March 17, 2025 //  by Sarah Olson

Death by Distribution Through Unlawful Delivery of Certain Controlled Substances

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Resource Category: Pattern Jury InstructionsForensic Discipline: Death by Distribution

Pattern Jury Instruction 206.72

March 17, 2025 //  by Sarah Olson

Aggravated Death by Distribution Through Unlawful Sale of Certain Controlled Substances

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Pattern Jury Instruction 206.70

March 17, 2025 //  by Sarah Olson

Death by Distribution Through Unlawful Sale of Certain Controlled Substances

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Resource Category: Pattern Jury InstructionsForensic Discipline: Death by Distribution

NC Gen Stat 90-92

March 17, 2025 //  by Sarah Olson

Schedule IV controlled substances

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Resource Category: Statutes and LegislationForensic Discipline: Death by Distribution

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