Happy Friday!  This week we’ve got a new tip, a new training, a podcast related to an event covered on last week, and the usual reminders. Tip of the Week – Secure Custody and Burden of Proof Training The Office of the Juvenile Defender will be hosting a Juvenile Court Basics CLE on Wednesday, Feb. 27, from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Cumberland County Courthouse.  Assistant Juvenile Defender Kim Howes will be discussing the role of counsel, how to communicate with juvenile clients, d

This past year has been a very eventful and exciting year for the juvenile defense community.  With N.C. now less than a year from the full implementation of the Raise the Age (RTA) legislation, which will raise the age of juvenile delinquency court jurisdiction, OJD has been working throughout 2018 to prepare attorneys around the state for the anticipated changes. Contracts & Trainings Trainings:  OJD hosted multiple regional trainings around the state to discuss the Juvenil

Welcome!  We’re coming into another Friday with fresh tips, job, training, and podcast reminders.  We also have a summary of the first Juvenile Jurisdiction Advisory Committee meeting of 2019, which took place earlier this week. Tip of the Week – No Cookie-Cutter Dispositions! Remember – disposition MUST be tailored to your specific client (§7B-2500) – don’t be afraid to argue against “cookie cutter” plans.  For example – if your client has no known drug/alcohol history, why

Happy New Year!  We’re starting the year off with a great new podcast, a couple of training and job opportunity reminders, a new free resource and a new tip for you (just because we know you’ve been missing them for the last few weeks). Talk to your client about the impacts of an adjudication.  While not as public as adult criminal convictions, juvenile adjudications may impact the following: immigration status, educational placement, housing conditions, eligibility to play s

Salutations and happy Friday to all!  This week we’ve got a decent haul of fresh updates and reminders for upcoming deadlines.  Of course, in the holiday season things will eventually slow down again, but we’ve got other content planned before the end of the year for you… Job Opportunities The Office of Indigent Defense Services (IDS) is currently seeking a full-time Project Attorney for a two-year contract position with the Office of the Juvenile Defender (OJD).  This is a f

Happy Friday to all!  This week there is more training to announce and two new podcast segments now available on SoundCloud. Training On Oct. 18, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., the North Carolina Advocates for Justice Juvenile Defense Section in collaboration with the Office of the Juvenile Defender will be hosting a CLE in Asheville, N.C. at the Lexington Brewery.  This CLE will have presentations from IDS Regional Defender Valerie Pearce, discussing the ethical obligations to repre

In our latest N.C. Juvenile Defender podcast, we talk to Dr. Anne Corbin about her new book, Dilemma of Duties: The Conflicted Role of Juvenile Defenders, which outlines patterns of role conflict experienced by juvenile defenders specifically in North Carolina.  Corbin is a law-trained social scientist with an extensive background in research focused on the professional development of government agents and criminal justice professionals.  In her book, through interviews with

This week we’ve got plenty of important news to share, with updates on Raise the Age, a new podcast, and job and training opportunities. JJAC Comes Back for Thirds On February 20, the Juvenile Jurisdiction Advisory Committee (JJAC) met at the N.C. Division of Adult Corrections and Juvenile Justice for its third meeting since its creation. Co-chair Bill D. Davis called the meeting to order, greeting the members of the Committee and others in attendance, before approving the mi

Happy Holidays again and welcome to 2018, Juvenile Defender family!  We hope everyone has had a safe and happy holiday.  We’ve got a few resources and announcements to share to start you off and we will be bringing our 2017 Year in Review very soon as well. New Year, (Kind of) New Resources Here on the OJD website, we have updated our “Training Material – Listed by Subjects” section, located under the “Materials for Defenders” tab, with the PowerPoints from our most recent tr

This week is we’ve just got lots of upcoming training announcements and… an update on Raise the Age! Training, Training, and More Training North Carolina Advocates for Justice will be hosting a free juvenile defense CLE in Courtroom 1 of the Wayne County Courthouse on 224 E. Walnut St. in Goldsboro, N.C.  The training, titled “Juvenile Defense – Effective Representation Now and For the Future”, will be held from 1-4 p.m. and a networking lunch will be provided from 12-1.  Thr

This week we want to remind everyone of some upcoming events/deadlines, an update to a Court of Appeals decision and an old-but-new addition to our materials for defenders. Also, a brief reminder to recent law school grads (Class of 2017 or 2018), that applications for the NJDC Gault Fellowship are due by Oct. 30.  You can find further details about this opportunity and how to apply in our previous post from last month. The Wake Forest University School of Law has just announ

This week, OJD has produced its first-ever podcast and we are now on SoundCloud!  In the podcast, Eric Zogry and Kim Howes discuss the Saldierna case.  Please click here to listen to the eighteen-minute recording.  We want to offer a special thanks to the N.C. Administrative Office of the Courts’ media team for helping us to create this presentation. We plan to create more podcasts in the future in addition to our regular blog, and we encourage everyone in the N.C. juvenile d