Friday's here! OJD is coming to you live from Kinston, NC, and the Eastern NC Youth Defender Forum. Today we have a new Case Law Corner from Burcu! NC Juvenile Case Summaries January 1, 2022 to June 30, 2022 In re D.A. 281 N.C. App. 627, 867 S.E.2d 428 (2022) Unpublished Opinion Wilson County February 1, 2022 https://appellate.nccourts.org/opinions/?c=2&pdf=40883 Summary: “Dawson” attended a birthday party in which a fight broke out between two other attendees of the party. D

Happy Friday!  This week we’ve got quite a few new nuggets to share.  There is a new resource from NJDC worth noting, a webinar offering CLE credit, and a training in Rutherford from OJD.  Also, check out the new tip of the week and reminders from the previous weeks. We also want to bring attention to yesterday’s post regarding the Juvenile Training Immersion Program (JTIP) hosted last month in conjunction with the National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC) at North Carolina Ce

Late last year, John Rubin of the UNC School of Government and I published the 2017 edition of the North Carolina Juvenile Defender Manual. This edition was three years in the making.  In addition, its publication coincided with a year-long initiative to commemorate the 50th anniversary of In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1 (1967), the Supreme Court decision that transformed the protections for juveniles in delinquency cases. The new edition of the manual builds on the structure of the

On Friday, Aug. 11, juvenile defenders from across N.C. united at the U.N.C. School of Government for the 2017 Juvenile Defender Conference — and I had the honor of being among the 50+ attendees!  Only approaching my first full year as a part of the Juvenile Defender family, I was pretty excited to be able to attend this annual conference and observe juvenile defenders from various districts interact and share ideas and experiences from their time in juvenile court.  In my sh