North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Though the trial court did not expressly state that visitation was contrary to “Edward” and “Lori’s” best interests, the trial court made sufficient findings to support its decision to deny the respondent-mother visitation. In addition to general findings regarding respondent’s ...

At the juvenile’s trial for sexual battery and simple assault, the juvenile’s counsel conceded to the facts underlying the simple assault charge; however, the record appears to be silent as to the juvenile’s knowing and voluntary consent to this concession. ...

On appeal, the respondent-mother argues that the trial court violated her procedural due process rights when it failed to delay proceedings after a social worker relayed to the trial court respondent’s message that she would be late because she was ...

Even though the trial court did not specifically find that the respondent-father’s children had been impaired or were at a substantial risk of impairment at the time they were adjudicated neglected, there was sufficient evidence to support such a finding. ...

At the time that plaintiff’s complaint arrived at defendant’s office, defendant’s secretary had resigned and its president had been unable to hire a replacement because he was undergoing cancer treatment in Texas and Maryland. However, a new secretary discovered the ...

In this case involving charges of sexual abuse of twin boys, the boys’ ages are essential elements of the violation of G.S. § 14-27.29. Although victim “Brad” was unable to definitively recall when the abuse began, his testimony as to ...

At trial, the only grounds defendant argued in support of his motions to suppress were that (1) officers lacked consent from his mother to search the residence they shared and (2) the initial stop of defendant’s car was illegal because ...

A sheriff’s captain testified that he had seen defendant before and had “made a traffic stop on him before”; the captain also testified that, when defendant arrived at the designated spot for a controlled drug sale to a police informant, ...

Even though the simple assault at issue occurred outside the presence of the arresting deputy sheriff, the deputy had probable cause to arrest defendant. After hearing both a dispatch report that defendant had assaulted a guest in his home and ...

After defendant’s arrest by Durham County Sheriff’s officers, the FBI determined that one of the deputies involved in defendant’s drug-related arrest, Deputy Grabarek, was addicted to drugs and had used stolen evidence and illegal narcotics evidence purchase money to fuel ...