RALEIGH (AP) A former prosecutor in North Carolina has been convicted of providing a no-show job for a colleague’s wife. News outlets reported a jury convicted former Person and Caswell County District Attorney Wallace Bradsher on June 18 of obtaining property ...

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RALEIGH (AP) The North Carolina Supreme Court has upheld the convictions and death sentence of a man for the kidnapping, sexual assault and asphyxiation death of a 5-year-old girl who police said was handed over by her mother to settle ...

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RALEIGH (AP) The case against a man accused of murdering his infant daughter took another unusual turn March 20 when North Carolina’s appeals court ruled that a judge shouldn’t have bypassed a jury to find him guilty. Todd Eric Boderick’s 2016 ...

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United States v. Welsh (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-012-18, 22 pp.) (Diaz, J.) No. 17-6355; Jan. 12, 2018; USDC at Raleigh, N.C. (Dever, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: Under the Adam Walsh Child Protection & Safety Act, appellant Welsh’s civil commitment – ...

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Ignorance of the law excuses no one, or so the ancient legal maxim goes, but like most legal maxims, this chestnut has a few exceptions. On March 15, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that a 2013 law—which makes ...

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Supreme Court is tossing the murder convictions and death sentences of a Tampa Bay area man accused of killing his estranged wife and her boyfriend. The court in a 4-3 ruling concluded there were ...

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In a case that gained national attention, the N.C. Court of Appeals recently leaned on decisions from California and Texas — and a definition from the New Oxford American Dictionary — to clarify its malicious maiming statute, ruling that causing ...

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State v. Bell Even though defendant presented evidence that he unloaded the gun before he went into an insurance office, pointed the gun at the victim, and demanded money, there was also evidence that defendant was aware from almost the moment he left the insurance office that the police were watching him, he chose to flee, and he attempted to hide evidence by disposing of it in the woods.

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Crespo v. Holder (Lawyers Weekly No. 11-01-0056, 10 pp.) (Shedd, J.) No. 09-2214, Jan. 11, 2011; On Petition for Review. 4th Cir. Click here for the full text of the opinion. Holding: A Peruvian’s 1997 Virginia adjudication for marijuana possession ...

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State v. Pinkerton. (Lawyers Weekly No. 10-07-0690, 29 pp.) (Sam Ervin IV, J.) (Robert N. Hunter, J., dissenting) Appealed from Johnston County Superior Court. (James F. Ammons, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Defendant rejected a plea bargain, was convicted on all ...

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