North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Where (1) defendant objected to more than 70 crime-scene photographs, (2) the trial court reviewed the photographs in camera and ruled on each individually, and (3) the trial court sustained roughly 20 of defendant’s objections to individual photographs, the ...

  There is nothing about use of the term “disclose”, standing alone, that conveys believability or credibility. Even if we assume there was error when the trial court did not intervene when the term “disclose” was used, there was substantial ...

Where agents demonstrated that a wiretap was necessary in light of the defendant’s remote location and the lack of success that traditional investigative methods had against his co-conspirator, the defendant charged with conspiracy could not suppress the evidence. Background Demetrius ...

Although the government persuaded the district court to impose a sentence above the guidelines range, the plea agreement allowed only the defendant, not the government, to ask for a sentence outside the recommended range. Background Pursuant to a plea agreement, ...

Requiring a defendant to notify employers and family members of his status as a sex offender and prohibiting him from working with or otherwise contacting minors were appropriate, but conditions barring him from accessing material depicting sexually explicit conduct and ...

Where a defendant referenced his involvement with a drug trafficker alleged to be his coconspirator and made multiple allusions to firearms in his rap lyrics and police recovered an illegal firearm and several items associated with drug trafficking from a ...

Where the police were immediately responding to the scene of where gunshots were heard, it was not unlawful for them to temporarily stop men walking away from the scene. The case was remanded to determine whether the search, which revealed ...

  When law enforcement officers executed a search warrant for defendant’s girlfriend’s apartment, defendant was in the street cleaning his car. Defendant was not an “occupant” of the premises whom officers were entitled to detain incident to the execution of ...

Because defendant waited until the day of his trial to waive a jury trial, he was not entitled to another 10 days during which he could revoke his waiver. We affirm defendant’s conviction of possession of methamphetamine. The filing of ...

Where surveillance video showed (1) defendant with two other men and a woman meeting in two cars in a parking lot near the victim’s home, (2) the woman driving alone to the victim’s home at 4:00 a.m. and honking her ...