North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Photos from Facebook were admitted as evidence of a conspiracy between defendant and Maurice Woodson. A police detective’s testimony, which spanned 57 pages, included only three mentions that defendant was displaying gang signs in the pictures. Even if the detective’s ...

Twelve days, at most, after the victim’s home was broken into, defendant was found in possession of all of the goods stolen from the victim’s home. Although some of the goods were of the type typically sold through lawful retail, ...

Even if it was error for the trial court to allow a DSS investigator to testify that three-year-old K.S. said it was “Daddy” (meaning defendant) who had hurt her, there was sufficient other evidence—including defendant’s own admissions and unchallenged expert ...

It was not improper for the trial court to consider the impact of drugs when deciding to make defendant’s sentences run consecutively. A trial court may take into account the seriousness of an offense when exercising its discretion at sentencing. ...

The trial court could count defendant’s Florida armed robbery offense toward the charge of attaining violent habitual felon status, despite the fact that the Florida statute allows a conviction when the perpetrator intended to deprive the owner of his property ...

The state presented substantial evidence from which the jury could infer that defendant knew or had reasonable grounds to believe the truck he was driving was stolen: (1) when a sheriff’s captain approached the truck, defendant appeared nervous, avoided eye ...

In a case involving a conspiracy to rob a drunken bus passenger whom defendant and his co-conspirator, Deshavonte Kemp, encountered at a bus station, the trial court could admit evidence that defendant and Kemp regularly sold drugs together at the ...

Where the state struck allegations from defendant’s probation violation reports regarding absconding and the commission of drug-related felonies, the trial court lacked the authority to revoke defendant’s probation based upon such allegations. However, the state explicitly expressed its desire to ...

The application for a warrant to search defendant’s home was based on information provided, not by a usual police informant, but by someone who was using heroin with a friend when the friend lost consciousness, prompting the source to call ...

The common law robbery indictment against defendant did not identify the owner of the property he was alleged to have stolen; nevertheless, defendant could be convicted of the lesser included offense of felony larceny. We find no error in defendant’s ...