2018 Cumulative Supplement to Arrest, Search, and Investigation in North Carolina. This item is unavailable.2018 Cumulative Supplement to Arrest, Search, and Investigation in North Carolina

This supplement updates Arrest, Search, and Investigation in North Carolina, Fifth Edition, 2016, written by former School of Government faculty member Robert L. Farb. The 2016 main volume includes case law through June 2016 and statutory law through the 2016 legislative session. This supplement includes recent cases from the United States Supreme Court and from North Carolina's appellate courts, and North Carolina legislation. It is current through July 1, 2018, 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.

Jeff Welty joined the UNC School of Government in 2008 and works in the area of criminal law and procedure. His research interests include search and seizure, digital evidence, criminal pleadings, capital punishment, and firearms law. He serves as the director of the North Carolina Judicial College, which provides training and education to the state's judicial officials. Welty founded and contributes regularly to the North Carolina Criminal Law Blog, an award-winning resource visited by approximately 100,000 users each month, and his books about capital punishment and digital evidence are widely-used legal references. Welty earned a JD at Duke University School of Law, where he graduated in 1999 with highest honors.