North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Even though a police confidential informant encouraged defendant to engage in the criminal enterprise of obtaining methadone and exchanging it for assistance with repairing the roof of defendant’s house, defendant’s own testimony revealed that the idea for the enterprise came ...

  Even though defendant was convicted of both felony speeding to elude arrest and driving while impaired arising out of the same incident, since the offense of felony speeding to elude arrest does not necessarily involve impaired driving, defendant is ...

  G.S. § 20-146(d)(1) requires not only that a motorist drive his vehicle “as nearly as practicable entirely within a single lane,” but also that a motorist refrain from changing lanes unless he “has first ascertained that such movement can ...

Upon reconsideration in light of State v. Grady, ___ N.C. ___, 831 S.E.2d 542 (2019), we again conclude that the findings of the trial court are not sufficient to support a conclusion that the imposition of lifetime satellite-based monitoring (SBM) ...

  Even though the General Assembly has codified the right to self-defense, until our Supreme Court provides further guidance on this issue, we are bound by the holding in State v. Richardson, 341 N.C. 585, 461 S.E.2d 724 (1995), that ...

Despite believing her daughter had been abused (by someone other than her husband), defendant persistently frustrated attempts by law enforcement and social workers to investigate that abuse. Even after walking in on her husband raping her daughter, defendant continued to ...

In this domestic-relations action, the plaintiff-wife seeks to impose a constructive trust on allegedly marital and divisible assets that she says the defendant-husband secreted and transferred to a trust. Although, in a related action, the Business Court found that plaintiff ...

Defendant told a police detective that he had been swinging his three-year-old stepdaughter, “Jessica,” around by her hands and accidentally threw her, so that she hit her head. However, defendant also admitted to punching Jessica in the stomach several times. ...

Even though defendant had swallowed methamphetamine when he saw a deputy, and even though he had fallen into a lake and was “freezing,” he was not entitled to a jury instruction on the defense of necessity with regard to charges ...

Even if the trial court erred in instructing the jury on the doctrine of recent possession, defendant cannot show prejudice because the state presented sufficient evidence showing that defendant acted with the requisite fraudulent intent in obtaining property by false ...