North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where surveillance video showed (1) defendant with two other men and a woman meeting in two cars in a parking lot near the victim’s home, (2) the woman driving alone to the victim’s home at 4:00 a.m. and honking her ...

  After law enforcement officers witnessed defendant’s roommates make a heroin sale, the officers split up to follow both the buyer and the sellers. The buyer admitted to buying heroin, and the sellers returned to the home they shared with ...

During its argument in favor of satellite-based monitoring (SBM), the state mentioned studies and statistics; however, the state did not introduce those studies or statistics into evidence, and those studies and statistics did not show that SBM was effective at ...

In this case (1) four people were injured in a motor vehicle accident; (2) the tortfeasor’s insurance carrier, Integon Insurance, paid the victims a total of $100,000 pursuant to the per-accident limit on its liability coverage; (3) defendant Dana received ...

  Once the trial court granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment, plaintiff could have appealed the trial court’s interlocutory order denying plaintiff’s motion to amend his complaint. In order to appeal the interlocutory order, however, plaintiff was required to designate ...

  Where victim “Zane” testified that juvenile “Jeremy” did not penetrate him, and where a video of the incident only shows contact – not penetration – between Jeremy’s pubic region and Zane’s buttocks, the state failed to prove first-degree forcible ...

A limited liability company was indebted to a bank pursuant to a promissory note, which was guaranteed by the LLC’s members. The bank could assign the guaranty contract to plaintiff, an entity created by one of the guarantor/members. We affirm ...

Where the testimony of an inmate and a prison official differed over what took place after officers ordered inmates to stay in their cubicles, the inmate is entitled to potentially exculpatory video evidence of the incident unless the government establishes ...

Where a police officer suffered post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of being frequently exposed to child pornography at work, and could not sue under the under the Americans with Disability Act because the state was immune, but he could ...

Where the district court wrongly concluded that the defendant’s prior conviction for conspiracy qualified as a controlled substance offense under the Sentencing Guidelines, the defendant was not entitled to resentencing because the defendant failed to raise his objection before the ...