North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  In response to a question as to why defendant was taken to the sheriff’s office, a detective said, “At minimum, she was arrested for narcotics violations, for the methamphetamine that was found right at her feet in her possession.” ...

  Although defendant was charged with larceny of a total of $329.81 worth of goods – less than $1,000 – she was charged with a Class H felony pursuant to G.S. § 14-72(b)(6) because her record showed at least four ...

  While defendant was on supervised release, a grocery store was robbed of $1,500 to $2,000. A report from defendant’s electronic tracking data showed that he was in the immediate vicinity of the store around the time of the robbery ...

  At defendant’s trial for possessing, selling and delivering the Schedule II controlled substance Opana, the trial court admitted evidence of defendant’s prior, similar sale of Opana. Even though the trial court made no specific finding that the probative value ...

  When a prosecution witness changed her story on the stand, the prosecutor mentioned—outside the hearing of the jury but within earshot of the witness—that he would put the witness in prison for life if she did not comply with ...

  Although defendant argues he merely borrowed the victim’s truck, since the state showed that he abandoned the truck on a secluded driveway not easily visible from any public road, the state’s evidence was sufficient to prove defendant’s intent to ...

  When defense counsel asked a detective why he didn’t review security footage from a gym to follow up on defendant’s claim that he was at the gym at the time of the robbery, defense counsel opened the door to ...

  The trial court found that the defendant-mother earned only 11 percent of the parties’ $354,524 gross income. The court ordered the mother to pay 11 percent of the child’s prospective expenses, yet the court ordered the mother to pay ...

  The trial court rejected the plaintiff-husband’s claim that, in 2016, he incurred $26,832 in expenses for business supplies because plaintiff’s “customers paid Plaintiff for supplies”; however, the trial court both removed the $26,834 from the expenses listed on plaintiff’s ...

  Plaintiff stored items of personal property at her daughter’s apartment, which was later damaged by a fire. Plaintiff testified that her personal property was more damaged after the defendant-remediation company performed its work at the apartment than it had ...