North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Although the speaker at a rally did not own the sound equipment and did not operate the equipment’s volume controls, since the speaker was the source of the sound input, which the equipment then amplified to a level that ...

Although defendant expressed doubts about the competency of his appointed counsel, since he informed the trial court that he wished to hire private counsel, the trial court should have applied the choice-of-counsel standard rather than the absolute-impasse standard in determining ...

Although a police detective used the passive voice in her affidavit in support of a search warrant application, we would be giving the affidavit a hypertechnical, rather than a commonsense, reading to conclude that the detective did not attribute the ...

  A public housing agency’s notice to evict a tenant from publicly subsidized housing must set out the specific lease term violated, not the specific conduct which is alleged to have violated the lease term. We affirm the trial court’s ...

  In this juvenile delinquency matter, the predisposition report referred to a clinical assessment in which the juvenile, “Evan,” was diagnosed with conduct disorder, and in which Haven House Services said that (1) Evan’s conduct disorder “causes clinically significant impairment ...

    The defendant-father has the ability to pay his entire child support arrearage immediately; consequently, the trial court abused its discretion when it ordered the arrearage paid, interest-free, in $100 increments over a span of 20 years. We affirm ...

  In plaintiff’s criminal case, this court ruled that his right to a speedy trial had been violated, and we vacated his convictions and dismissed the underlying indictments. In this civil action, plaintiff asks us to recognize a new right: ...

  Even though an anonymous tip was insufficient to justify a traffic stop, defendant’s traffic crimes allowed the arresting officer to buttress the tip through corroboration. Nevertheless, where the trial court allowed defendant to represent himself without first being informed ...

  Where defendant was indicted for possessing a shotgun, but where he repeatedly denied possessing the shotgun, defendant was not entitled to a jury instruction regarding justification, which is premised upon a defendant’s having committed the offense with which he ...

  While defendant’s arrest was unlawful, before he submitted to the arrest and while he was lawfully running away from a police officer, defendant voluntarily abandoned a firearm, which a K-9 unit later retrieved. Since defendant voluntarily abandoned the gun, ...