North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

While testifying about his interrogation of defendant regarding a nightclub shooting, a police detective said, “I showed him the still shot from the [nightclub surveillance] video, and he just dropped his head and basically said he was done.” The detective ...

The vast majority of the charges in defendant’s driving record involved the same types of conduct defendant was alleged to have engaged in here: speeding, illegal passing, and driving while his license was revoked. Furthermore, the convictions were not too ...

Even though the state presented the same aggravating factors at defendant’s DWI trial in superior court as it had presented at defendant’s DWI trial in district court, G.S. § 20-179(a1)(1) required the state to give defendant notice of its intent ...

Since defendant was convicted of felony assault inflicting serious bodily injury based on the same conduct as his conviction of misdemeanor assault inflicting serious injury, the trial court could not impose judgment or sentence for assault inflicting serious injury, a ...

  Although defendant entered into a plea agreement with the state, during his colloquy with the trial judge, he maintained his innocence. G.S. § 15A-1023(c) did not require the judge to accept defendant’s guilty plea. We find no error in ...

After encouraging six-year-old victim “Dee’s” mother to groom Dee for sexual activity and asking for and receiving nude photos and videos of Dee from her mother, defendant asked the mother to put Dee in a dress with no underwear in ...

Defendant was charged with breaking or entering pursuant to G.S. § 14-54(a), under which an indictment must identify the building (here, Char’s Hamburgers) with reasonable particularity so as to enable the defendant to prepare his defense. Although the trial court ...

Where counterfeit instruments were found in the glove compartment of defendant’s car, not in his wallet, and where there was no evidence that he attempted to use the bills as currency, the state did not provide any evidence of an ...

Amidst confusion over whether the judgment in defendant’s underlying convictions said his sentences were to run concurrently or consecutively, the revoking judge did not make clear whether he was exercising his discretion under G.S. § 15A-1344(d), which includes the option ...

First, defendant did not object when the trial court decided to admit defense witness Jemel Bullock’s sworn proffer of evidence rather than Bullock’s whole plea transcript, which included the terms of the plea agreement that defendant now argues should have ...