Christopher Tyner

This is a guide for local government officials and state employees on how to develop and administer a process for determining when a dog fits North Carolina's legal definition of a potentially dangerous dog. State law requires local governments to adopt certain measures for making dangerous-dog determinations and requires a process for hearing owners' appeals. The law provides few guidelines for implementing those requirements, giving local governments a lot of flexibility but little direction.

This item is a package of Arrest, Search, and Investigation in North Carolina and the 2020 Cumulative Supplement to Arrest, Search and Investigation. This book covers the legal rules that govern an officer's authority to enforce laws and to investigate criminal offenses. It also covers the basic rules of evidence in criminal cases. Supplementary material is placed in footnotes at the bottom of the text, and relevant case summary sections are located at the end of each chapter (for chapters 2-5). Footnotes to the text and case summary sections include appellate cases and statutory references to assist in researching particular issues. The book is current with case law through June 2016 and statutory law through the 2016 legislative session. It contains a subject index and a case index. The fifth edition replaces all prior editions and supplements.The 2020 supplement updates Arrest, Search, and Investigation in North Carolina, Fifth Edition, 2016. It is current through July 1, 2020, and so includes coverage of critical material such as the Supreme Court's Carpenter decision regarding cell phone tracking, new legislation regarding citizen-initiated criminal charges, and the impact on various investigative procedures of the Juvenile Justice Reinvestment Act, which increases the age of juvenile jurisdiction from 16 to 18.