North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Even though there was evidence that the plaintiff-mother was voluntarily unemployed, since she testified that she stayed home instead of pursuing employment because “my children need me,” the trial court did not abuse its discretion in determining that the ...

  During the extended period of time when defendant was sexually abusing child victim “Amy,” the General Assembly revised and recodified G.S. § 14-27.23 (statutory rape of a child by an adult, formerly G.S. § 14-27.2A) and G.S. § 14-27.28 ...

  After the state rested its case at trial, the trial court told defendant he had “a shot at the voluntary intoxication defense…” But then defendant testified that, on the night he broke into his girlfriend’s home, he had had ...

  Given that there was no video footage and there were no other witnesses to defendant’s two incidents of head-butting the deputy who arrested him, the trial court did not err in allowing the deputy to testify that defendant acted ...

  Where the trial court improperly set defendant’s probation in case 03 CRS 215621 to run consecutively with the probation period in case 03 CRS 215620, we grant defendant’s motion for appropriate relief. However, the trial court expressed its intent ...

  Even though contempt proceedings were already underway when the trial court determined that defendants were likely to be held in criminal contempt, the trial court’s appointment of counsel for the indigent defendants at that point did not satisfy defendants’ ...

  The state’s evidence showed that (1) defendant was seen entering various apartments; (2) witness Wadsworth’s television was missing from her guestroom, in which she found a lantern and lighters that she did not recognize; (3) witness Madden’s lantern and ...

  Where the indictment named “Candido Tellez-Toxqui” as an alleged assault victim, and where witnesses identified this victim as “Candido,” “Candid Tellez,” and “Candido Toxqui,” these names simply represented a shorthand version of the victim’s full name. The victim alleged ...

In response to an anonymous tip, a deputy found defendant in the driveway of his home, asleep in a Ford Explorer to which was attached a trailer and an ATV that had both been reported stolen. Defendant’s testimony that the ...

  It was within the trial court’s discretion to admit a shooting victim’s lay opinion testimony about the trajectory of one of the bullets that struck him. We find no error in defendant’s convictions of discharging a weapon into occupied ...