{"id":48,"date":"2019-10-31T19:53:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T23:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colewilliamslaw.com\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:57:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T15:57:09","slug":"is-domestic-violence-in-durham-a-federal-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colewilliamslaw.com\/blog\/is-domestic-violence-in-durham-a-federal-offense\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Domestic Violence in Durham a Federal Offense?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Stop making such a fuss.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not like it&#8217;s a federal offense.&#8221;\u00a0 You may have heard that in the past, <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-54\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colewilliamslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Is-Domestic-Violence-a-Federal-Offense-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"Is Domestic Violence in Durham a Federal Offense\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colewilliamslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Is-Domestic-Violence-a-Federal-Offense-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colewilliamslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Is-Domestic-Violence-a-Federal-Offense-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.colewilliamslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Is-Domestic-Violence-a-Federal-Offense-216x120.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.colewilliamslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Is-Domestic-Violence-a-Federal-Offense.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>understanding it relates to making a bigger deal of something than it deserves.\u00a0 But after a recent report by WSOCTV in Charlotte, it&#8217;s now reasonable to ask, &#8220;Is domestic violence in Durham a Federal offense?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s true because Andrew Murray, the US Attorney in the Western District of North Carolina, has purportedly expressed interest in reviewing domestic violence cases relative to violations of the United States Code (U.S.C.)<\/p>\n<p>Will that be the case in Durham County too, which is considered the &#8220;middle district&#8221; of the United States federal court system in North Carolina?<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colewilliamslaw.com\/blog\/is-domestic-violence-in-durham-a-federal-offense\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Is Domestic Violence in Durham a Federal Offense?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Stop making such a fuss.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not like it&#8217;s a federal offense.&#8221;\u00a0 You may have heard that in the past, understanding it relates to making a bigger deal of something than it deserves.\u00a0 But after a recent report by WSOCTV in Charlotte, it&#8217;s now reasonable to ask, &#8220;Is domestic violence in Durham a Federal offense?&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,10,8],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-defense","tag-domestic-violence-charges","tag-durham-criminal-lawyer","tag-federal-offense"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is Domestic Violence in Durham a Federal Offense? 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