North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  The state’s evidence showed that defendant’s assault on the victim caused her to flee, leaving the keys in the ignition of her car, thus allowing defendant to take the keys, as well as the vehicle title from the passenger ...

  The state’s evidence against defendant—which included officers’ real-time communication with and pursuit of defendant and his estranged wife, Crystal; injuries to Crystal consistent with her account of her abduction; immediate seizure of incriminating evidence from multiple locations; and contemporaneous ...

  Even though the trial court did not include the words “wrongful” or “without claim of right” in its jury instruction on the lesser-included offense of breaking or entering, (1) the trial court’s instruction was correct in law and was ...

  After learning that he would only see his family through a computer monitor while in jail, defendant asked to see his family face to face in exchange for his confession. A detective said he could not “promise” anything but ...

Where two officers were present at a traffic stop (for a broken taillight and a seatbelt violation), the presence of a folded pocketknife on the car’s console did not give the officers reasonable suspicion to frisk defendant. Moreover, when an ...

Even if defendant did not know that Quavios Clyde had shot and killed Shawn Borders when defendant drove Clyde from Shelby to Forest City and back again, police told defendant that Clyde was wanted for murder before she drove him ...

Where an inmate who had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to cocaine-related crimes provided “substantial assistance” to the government, he was entitled to have a pleading about his efforts sealed and removed from online research services. There was a heightened risk ...

A defendant charged with federal illegal reentry from Mexico pleaded guilty to a crime committed during his prior presence in the U.S. The guilty plea waived his right to assert that a six-year delay between the charge and his plea ...

Where the government opted to not make an initial closing argument, it should not have been allowed to make a rebuttal closing argument after the defendant’s closing. But because the defendant did not show he was prejudiced by the altered ...

All the evidence showed that defendant’s weapons were an air pistol and a pellet rifle; thus, in order to submit the attempted armed robbery charge to the jury, there must have been evidence of the weapons’ capability to inflict death ...