Sadly, the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando early Sunday morning is the major criminal law news story this week.  Forty-nine victims were killed, fifty-three others were wounded, and the gunman died in a shootout with police.  The shooting is being characterized as a terror attack and a hate crime.  The shooter reportedly Read More

There is an ongoing discussion about whether or not video evidence from police cameras should be available to the public.  Of course they should be available.  They are paid for with tax dollars.  Law enforcement claims they want transparency.   The camera doesn’t blink.  The camera doesn’t lie.   More often than not, the video Read More

Greensboro – A Guilford County jury found a High Point man not guilty Friday in a 2011 fatal shooting at a BP station. The jury determined that Maurice Antonio Nichols, of 618 Wesley Drive, acted in self-defense about 4:30 a.m. on Oct. 17, 2011, when he shot and killed Lemorris McCollum Jr., 26, of Greensboro. Read More

Posted: Sunday, August 19, 2012 7:00 am |  Updated: 10:38 am, Thu Feb 14, 2013. Danielle Battaglia It was a court case almost 10 years in the making. In the end, a Rockingham County woman was cleared of arson charges. Titus Plomaritis and his ex-wife Maureen Ward’s 531 River Ridge Roadhome was set on fire Read More

SARAH NEWELL [email protected] PUBLICATION: Greensboro News & Record (NC) SECTION: News DATE: December 9, 2014 GREENSBORO – A man whose 3-month-old son died after he left the child in his van received probation and community service Monday in the infant’s death. Jose Stalin Hernandez-Fichack, 32, of Whitsett pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter in Guilford Read More

Date: January 24, 2004 Edition(s): ALLPage: B1 Section: TRIAD Source: SCOTT MICHELS Staff Writer Dateline: GREENSBORO Michael Atoyebi left the Guilford County courthouse Friday knowing that whoever murdered his brother might never face justice. A Durham man was acquitted Friday afternoon of what a prosecutor called the brutal, “completely random and senseless” murder of Atoyebi’s Read More

Jurors acquit man of murder Date: March 25, 2006 Edition(s): Greensboro Page: B1Section: TriadSource: ERIC COLLINS GREENSBORO – A jury Friday acquitted a McLeansville man of murder in connection with the stabbing death of a friend last year. Walter Lee Puckett Jr., 23, was charged with the second-degree murder of John Ross Hunt, 21, of Read More

After little more than an hour of deliberation, a jury acquitted a Greensboro man Friday of murder for driving the car from which an acquaintance of his shot and killed another man. Derrick Lamont McMillan, 26, teary-eyed and smiling, hugged his lawyers and his family after hearing the verdict. “It’s over, it’s over,” he said, Read More

Date: February 2, 1991 Edition(s): ALLPage: B1 Section: TRIAD/STATE Source: LIBBY LEWIS Staff Writer Eric Duncan admitted it to the 12 people who sat judging him: He beat his stepfather to death with a baseball bat.     He didn’t mean to kill him, Duncan said at his murder trial in Guilford Superior Court this Read More

Court of Appeals of North Carolina. May 5, 1992 Atty. Gen. Lacy H. Thornburg by Associate Atty. Gen. H. Alan Pell, Raleigh, for the State. Robert O’Hale, Asst. Public Defender of the Eighteenth Judicial Dist., Greensboro, for defendant-appellant. WELLS, Judge. Defendant argues the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress. Defendant contends the Read More