Criminal Series of the Clerks’ Manual Now Available – North Carolina Criminal Law

I’m happy to announce that the up to date chapters within the Legal Collection of the Clerks’ Guide are actually accessible.

The North Carolina Clerk of Superior Court docket Guide Collection is a web-based assortment of reference manuals for clerks of superior court docket and their assistants and deputies. Whereas broad in scope, the handbook collection doesn’t try to cope with all duties of the clerk. As an alternative, it primarily units out the legislation associated to judicial proceedings that clerks conduct.

The UNC Faculty of Authorities (SOG) first revealed the North Carolina Clerk of Superior Court docket Procedures Guide in 1982. Subsequent editions adopted in 1983, 1990, 1992, 2003, and 2012. These editions embody the work of many SOG school and employees. The 2022 model of the handbook builds on these earlier works however strikes away from being a standard print publication.

The brand new handbook collection is a web-based useful resource that’s searchable, simple to navigate, supplies hyperlinks to types and assets, and permits for extra common content material updates. This model additionally divides the one, two-volume handbook right into a collection of eight manuals organized by material—considered one of which is the Legal handbook. The chapters discovered within the felony collection are:

Preliminary Look and Setting Situations of Pretrial Launch
First Look When Choose Not Out there
Legal Look Bonds: Taking and Releasing Secured Bonds
Bond Forfeiture
Duties of the Clerk in Extradition Circumstances

I’ve had the pleasure of updating every of the chapters within the Legal handbook collection, and I couldn’t have carried out so with out the work of the chapter groups comprised of clerks, North Carolina Administrative Workplace of the Courts (AOC) employees, and my SOG colleagues. The chapter crew opinions the chapter draft, supplies suggestions, and affords sensible insights in regards to the topic of every chapter.

I might even be remiss if I didn’t give particular because of my colleague Meredith Smith, the editor of the handbook, for permitting me to help on this capability.

Entry to the clerks’ handbook web site and the brand new and up to date content material is out there to all North Carolina Judicial Department customers without spending a dime by means of the Judicial Department intranet, Juno. All different customers should buy a subscription, and a singular hyperlink will probably be supplied upon buy. Entry to the positioning could be bought right here. By sustaining a subscription, customers obtain entry to new and up to date content material as quickly as it’s posted on the positioning.

In case you have any questions or issues about info within the Legal handbook collection, please e-mail me at bwilliams@sog.unc.edu.