North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Even though an informant did not have a track record of providing reliable information to police, the information she provided showed indicia of reliability because it was an explicit and detailed account regarding her purchase of methamphetamine at defendant’s ...

In the incident that led to defendant’s conviction of taking indecent liberties with a child and in a prior incident, defendant targeted victims who were minors living in homes which defendant frequented because of his relationship with the victims’ families. ...

  Even though the court reporter’s transcript from defendant’s guilty plea was incomplete, the record on appeal contains a transcript of the trial up to the point defendant entered his guilty plea, the transcript of plea signed by defendant and ...

There was no evidence that defendant even realized his probation officer was trying to find him between October 10 and 12, 2017, so the officer’s testimony that “all efforts to contact the family, friends and [defendant’s] old numbers were unsuccessful” ...

Even though defendant stipulated to the “used a deadly weapon” aggravating factor, in light of our Supreme Court’s holding that non-constitutional sentencing issues are automatically preserved for appellate review by statute and our decision in State v. Bacon, 228 N.C. ...

  Plaintiff’s decedent, a nursing home resident, died about two months after drinking part of a bottle of body wash. Although plaintiff argued that her complaint alleged only the ordinary negligence of a failure to supervise, the complaint actually alleges ...

  When plaintiff was testifying on direct examination, the trial court excluded evidence from Zillow.com as to the value of defendant’s home; however, plaintiff was allowed to testify that, “based on all the sources and your knowledge of the market ...

  The Industrial Commission found that plaintiff and defendant Fireman’s Fund Insurance never reached an agreement as to all essential terms for an enforceable settlement, so plaintiff and Fireman’s Fund did not reach a meeting of the minds and no ...

  As a ground for terminating respondent’s parental rights, the trial court found that respondent had failed to make reasonable progress to correct the conditions that led to her child, “Pat’s” removal. However, there was no “removal” because respondent entered ...

When the trial court eliminated reunification with respondent from the child K.S.’s permanent plan, the court made findings as to only two of the four factors set out in G.S. § 7B-906.2(d); moreover, the court failed to make a finding ...