Criminal Practice – Rape & Indecent Liberties – Evidence – Incestuous Pornography – Admissible – Motive

North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff//March 13, 2012

State v. Brown (Lawyers Weekly No. 12-06-0296, 1 p.) (Per Curiam) Appealed from Jackson County Superior Court. (Dennis J. Winner, J.) On appeal from the Court of Appeals. N.C. S. Ct. Full-text opinion.

Holding: Where our Court of Appeals held, Evidence that defendant possessed pornography describing and depicting incest was admissible to prove motive and intent in defendant’s trial for the first-degree rape of his 10-year-old daughter and taking indecent liberties with a minor, we affirm.

Discretionary review was improvidently allowed as to an additional issue.

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