North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Although a petitioner argued his status as a merchant in the formal Honduran economy was a “particular social group” that qualified for asylum, the Board of Immigration Appeals, or BIA, did not err in following its precedent, which holds the ...

Where the Board of Immigration Appeals instructed the Immigration Judge to allow a petitioner from Cameroon to explain inconsistencies in her prior testimony, her due process rights were violated when the judge denied her application for asylum before she was ...

  A prosecutor incorrectly argued to the jury that witnesses had described “P,” an armed man at the scene of a homicide, as having a tattoo on his chest. However, defense counsel did not object, and defendant has failed to ...

  Criminal defendants have an absolute constitutional right to plead not guilty and be tried by a jury of their peers. The right to enter a plea of not guilty encompasses the right to be free from condemnation in front ...

  Statements made by the victim’s children during forensic interviews were made as part of medical exams and were otherwise trustworthy; consequently, the statements should have been admitted. Since the children’s statements would have helped explain why the victim was ...

  Since the parties’ 17-year-old son did not obtain a judicial emancipation decree, the child support payments due from the defendant-father to the plaintiff-mother vested when they became due, and the father should have been required to pay the arrearage. ...

  Where defendants’ American Bulldog, Blue, had never previously “killed or inflicted severe injury on a person,” he was not a “dangerous dog” within the meaning of G.S. § 67-4.1(a)(1)(a)(1) on the morning when he broke his collar, ran away ...

  Even though petitioners’ installation of an HVAC system passed inspection, petitioners had set the new unit on top of a pre-existing pad and curbing, which were visibly cracked and not properly sealed; subsequently, a water test showed that the ...

Even though “Sam’s” paternal grandmother was initially offered as a relative placement option, since (1) the Guilford County Department of Health and Human Services declined to recommend that Sam be placed with her and (2) the trial court determined in ...

  The respondent-mother contends that the only condition that directly led to “Chloe’s” removal was respondent’s potential lengthy incarceration in Mississippi, which she claims to have remedied. However, other factors were also involved in Chloe’s removal, such as an open ...