Action: Assault Injuries alleged: Behavioral, emotional and academic injuries Case name: Saint Preux v. Iesha Russell, et al. Court/case no.: Cumberland County Superior Court/No. 21-CVS-4346 Jury and/or judge: Jury/Judge George R. Hicks III Amount: $8,000,000 High-low agreement: No Date: Feb. ...

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A Raleigh-area businessman has agreed to settle a claim that an equipment manufacturer put him at risk by hiring a salesperson who he said brutally beat him for refusing to sign a sales agreement. He also claimed business damages after ...

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MURPHY (AP) Two North Carolina jail officers have been fired following an investigation into allegations of assault. The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that officers Wesley Gage Killian and Josh Gunter were fired over what was ...

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State v. Cox (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-361-17, 25 pp.) (Robert Hunter Jr., J.) Appealed from Wayne County Superior Court (J. Carlton Cole, J.) N.C. App. Holding: When defendant fired numerous times into victim Kornegay’s trailer, defendant knew the trailer was ...

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A district court did not err by enhancing a defendant’s sentence after determining that assault inflicting serious bodily injury is a “crime of violence” under § 4B1.2 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines, according to an Oct. 26 ruling by ...

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State v. Holloman (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-048-17, 23 pp.) (Sam Ervin IV, J.) (Michael Morgan, J., not participating) Appealed from Wake County Superior Court (Donald Stephens, J.) On discretionary review from the Court of Appeals. N.C. S. Ct. Holding: The ...

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State v. Mylett (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-106-17, 18 pp.) (Hunter Murphy, J.) Appealed from Watauga County Superior Court (Alan Thornburg, J.) N.C. App. Holding: We hold that assault on a government officer is a general intent crime. Therefore, when defendant ...

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State v. Bradford (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-087-17, 12 pp.) (Hunter Murphy, J.) Appealed from Wake County Superior Court (Kendra Hill, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Even though defendant was the passenger, not the driver, of the car from which he fired ...

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The charge of “attempted assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury” — an awkward mashup of seemingly incongruous terms — is now recognized as a felony offense in North Carolina. The development occurred in the case of Corey Floyd, ...

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Lopp v. Anderson (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-420-16, 23 pp.) (Linda McGee, C.J.) Appealed from Franklin County Superior Court (Robert Hobgood, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Where plaintiff Roddie Lopp testified that (1) all four defendant-officers participated in taking him to the ...

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