North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Even a pro se appellant must adhere to the Rules of Appellate Procedure. The record is either devoid of or incomplete on materials and authorities required to review the issues raised by plaintiff’s appeal; moreover, most of his arguments are ...

Where the trial was going smoothly and without delays, it was reasonable for the trial judge to forecast that the trial would not be lengthy. The judge’s remarks to the effect that he was “hoping to finish [the trial] by ...

Where the road on which a wildlife officer stopped defendant was not a “primary highway” under G.S. § 113-136(g), the officer could stop defendant without “clear evidence” that defendant had been hunting. The officer only needed, and had, a reasonable ...

Even if the trial court erred by allowing a social worker to testify that, after seeing one-year-old victim “Adam” in the hospital, “it was decided that [DHHS] would file a petition and nonsecure order and that [Adam] would be in ...

While defendant’s mother was driving the four miles between her sister’s house—into which defendant had just discharged a shotgun—and her mother’s house, defendant’s mother had time to manufacture a statement, and she had a motive to do so, i.e., to ...

Even though no one expressly solicited victim Thompson to identify defendant, since (1) a detective had told Thompson defendant’s name and that there had been a DNA match, (2) Thompson was asked to attend defendant’s bond hearing, and (3) a ...

The state presented sufficient evidence that defendant knew the check she cashed was forged and that she intended to defraud. The state’s evidence tends to show that (1) defendant had no legitimate connection to the account holder, Sessoms Packing, or ...

Where defendant did not authorize defense counsel to admit guilt to the lesser included offense of misdemeanor larceny, but where counsel’s opening statement told the jury that defendant had taken a bag that contained marijuana but did not contain the ...

The affidavit supporting the warrant to search defendant’s motel room establishes that the confidential information who identified defendant had previously demonstrated his reliability by conducting several successful controlled purchases at the direction of police detectives and by providing accurate and ...

Even though the plaintiff-wife and her mother testified that the mother’s gift of a camper was intended to be for the wife and the parties’ (now emancipated) children and not for the defendant-husband, since the wife and mother were both ...