North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Defendant was not entitled to dismissal because the state’s primary witness was “inherently incredible” because granting dismissal would improperly intrude upon the jury’s exclusive province as the arbiter of witness credibility and finder of fact. We find no reversible ...

  Evidence sufficient to support attempted manufacturing conviction where police recovered materials from a makeshift “growing room” that had residue from use and where defendant admitted he had in years past attempted to use the materials to grow marijuana. We ...

  Evidence sufficient to support attempted manufacturing conviction where police recovered materials from a makeshift “growing room” that had residue from use and where defendant admitted he had in years past attempted to use the materials to grow marijuana. We ...

  The trial court could maintain jurisdiction to modify child custody, despite the termination of DHS’s juvenile petition, after the entry of a parenting agreement order or emergency custody petition. We affirm defendant’s conviction on the charge of injury to ...

  Even if defendant, a convicted felon, had been initially justified in wielding his wife’s gun because he believed himself to be under attack by his nephew, he lost the defense of justification when he continued to possess the firearm ...

  Plaintiffs attached to their complaint their own deed, the deeds in defendants’ chain of title, and recorded maps, all of which depict a 30-foot easement across defendants’ property for ingress and egress to plaintiffs’ property from Lake Wheeler Road. ...

  Where (1) defense counsel did not take the opportunity to review defendant’s jailhouse calls when the state provided them, (2) the jailhouse calls that the state used as rebuttal evidence do not contradict the defense expert’s testimony that defendant ...

  Where defendant was held in direct criminal contempt for disrupting the trial judge’s courtroom, G.S. § 7A-451(a)(1) did not give defendant the right to be represented by counsel. However, we remand for the correction of a clerical error in ...

  Since there is no final judgment as to the forfeiture of defendant’s appearance bond, the forfeiture may only be set aside for the reasons enumerated in G.S. § 15A-544.5(b). The clerk of court’s failure to provide the surety with ...

  Even though plaintiff filed its original lawsuit against defendant in 2008 based on a credit account that plaintiff had purchased, since plaintiff obtained a default judgment in that lawsuit, and since plaintiff filed the instant lawsuit to renew the ...