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Med practice pays $1.9M after deadly drug cocktail
The family of a man who was given a lethal dose of anesthesia during an outpatient medical procedure has confidentially settled a pre-lawsuit claim against the doctor’s medical practice for $1.9 million, the family’s attorneys report. William Elam and Michael Rousseaux of Elam & Rousseaux in Charlotte said that the man was given a […]
Self-defense instruction OKed for gun possession charge
A trial judge should have instructed a jury on the theory self-defense before it convicted a Mecklenburg County man of possession of a firearm by a felon because there was enough evidence for the jury to consider whether he took possession of the gun in order to protect his own life, the North Carolina […]
Motorcycle crash death results in $2M settlement
The widow of a motorcyclist who was killed after a medical supply company vehicle slammed into him at a rural intersection has settled with the at-fault driver and his company for $2 million, the widow’s attorney reports. Bob Warlick of The Law Offices of John Drew Warlick in Jacksonville said that Charles Brown was […]
Woman injured by falling movie screen settles suit for $200K
A woman who broke her ankle as she scrambled to get out of the way of an inflatable movie screen that began falling toward her and her children has confidentially settled a lawsuit with the owner of the park where the movie was being screened for $200,000, her attorney reports. Isaac Thorp of Raleigh reports […]
Man injured in wreck settles for $1.25M
A man who was injured after he crashed into a vehicle that made a left turn in front of him has confidentially settled with the at-fault driver for $1.25 million, his attorneys report. Joseph Edwards and Sharon Edwards of Edwards & Edwards in Greenville report that their client, whose name was withheld pursuant to […]
Portrait of a judicial–and prejudicial–past
In the courtroom of the North Carolina Supreme Court building, the portrait of Thomas Ruffin Sr., the state’s chief justice from 1833 to 1852, has pride of place, hanging in the most prominent spot, over the seat of the Chief Justice. In 2005, legal dignitaries from across the state gathered in Raleigh as the court […]
Speeding ticket ended trooper’s mission, right to detain
A highway patrolman “disregarded the basic tenets of the Fourth Amendment” when he unlawfully detained a man after issuing him a ticket for speeding, resulting in the man’s arrest and subsequent conviction for trafficking cocaine, a narrowly divided North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. In 2014, the trooper, John Lamm, stopped David Michael Reed […]
Jury awards $772K to woman assaulted by coffee shop boss
A Mecklenburg County jury has awarded $772,275 to a woman who claimed that her former boss sexually assaulted her when she was a teen in a coffee shop’s restroom, according to court documents and the woman’s attorneys. Sean Herrmann and Kevin Murphy of Herrmann & Murphy in Charlotte report that their client, Caroline Cox, had […]
Do-over to fix habitual felon indictment wasn’t prejudicial
A judge’s decision to postpone sentencing so prosecutors could correct an error in the indictment they’d planned to use to establish that a defendant was a habitual felon didn’t prejudice the defendant “despite the highly irregular nature of the proceedings and the grossly disproportionate sentence that resulted,” a divided North Carolina Court of Appeals […]
Farm to pay $600K in back wages under settlement
Local workers at an eastern North Carolina farm will receive $600,000 in back wages to settle a lawsuit alleging that their employer violated federal policy when it paid foreign temporary workers a higher hourly wage than it paid them for the same work, according to court documents and their attorneys. Carol Brooke and Clermont […]
How unconscious bias can be a barrier to justice
As someone who is young, black and female, Wake County District Court Judge Ashleigh Parker Dunston sees every day the biases that people harbor but think are hidden. When she was a North Carolina assistant attorney general appearing in a rural county court, an opposing attorney told the presiding judge that the Attorney General’s office […]
Supreme Court joins thriving appellate pro bono program
[Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of stories looking at various ways that attorneys across the state are providing pro bono legal services.] When Dan Gibson got word at the end of August that he would be taking on a complicated child custody case appeal, he pored through 1,500 pages of documents […]
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Commentary
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