After spending the past couple of days looking into the intricacies of SB300 and beginning to narrowly focus on overcriminalization in North Carolina, I looked into possible solutions. Unsurprisingly, there’s not a whole lot of good answers to such a complex problem. Both the NC house and senate have made attempts at making the criminal code much simpler, so far there has been no success. For instance, in 2017 the house added an amendment to a bill (HB482) to create a commission to recodify (simplify) the language and structure of the NC legal code. Unfortunately, the bill eventually fizzled out in the senate and no solution was reached. This is quite a significant issue as an average resident in NC has no possible way to understand all the intricacies of the law, like the 17 different charge we have in North Carolina for larceny. I’m looking forward to continue to brainstorm solutions and for the trip the the GA next week.
-Miles