Image via Shutterstock
“Today’s order will allow us to drastically reduce the exposure caused by crowded sessions of court,” said Chief Justice Cheri Beasley said in a press statement.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has directed district and superior courts to postpone most cases for a month or more in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
The order goes into effect today.
“Today’s order will allow us to drastically reduce the exposure caused by crowded sessions of court, which often bring hundreds of people at a time into our courthouses,” Chief Justice Cheri Beasley said in a press statement.
There are a few exceptions to the emergency decree, which Beasley said are necessary to ensure due process rights would not be violated: Bond, probation and probable cause hearings, as well as domestic violence protection orders and cases where a jury has already been empaneled.
North Carolina has also suspended all prison visitations to prevent the spread of the virus in the vulnerable population, where it could quickly spread due to close quarters and sanitary challenges.
Author
VIDEO: A Teacher Reacts to Mark Robinson’s Idea Remove Science From Grades K-5
In his 2022 memoir, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson wrote that if he was in charge of education policy in North Carolina, students wouldn’t learn science or...
Op-Ed: Studying the Holocaust remains vital to ensuring it never happens again
International Holocaust Day will be observed on January 27, 2024. This day commemorates the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by the...
VIDEO: How Rural Broadband Is Coming to This North Carolina County
More than 1.1 million North Carolinians lack access to high-speed internet, a necessity of the modern economy. In Warren County, help is on the way,...
VIDEO: Sampson County puts Biden’s promise to boost rural infrastructure to the test
Locals in this rural NC county say their water and air is polluted by a PFAS-contaminated landfill, massive hog and poultry farms, and industrial...
