State v. Hensley (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-186-17, 19 pp.) (Wanda Bryant, J.) (Donna Stroud, J., concurring) (Mark Davis, J., concurring in the result only without separate opinion) Appealed from Burke County Superior Court (Nathaniel Poovey, J.) N.C. App. Holding: When ...

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State v. Walston (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-036-17, 13 pp.) (Cherie Beasley, J.) Appealed from Dare County Superior Court (Cy Grant, J.) On discretionary review from the Court of Appeals. N.C. S. Ct. Holding: While we agree with the Court of ...

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Gentry v. Brooks (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-003-17, 14 pp.) (Ann Marie Calabria, J.) Appealed from Madison County Superior Court (Gary Gavenus, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Even if the trial court erred in admitting a plat into evidence, respondents cannot ...

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State v. Carvalho (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-025-17, 1 p.) (Per Curiam) Appealed from Union County Superior Court (Christopher Bragg, J.) On appeal from the Court of Appeals. N.C. S. Ct. Holding: As to the issue raised in the dissent in ...

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State v. Mendoza (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-403-16, 35 pp.) (Linda McGee, C.J.) Appealed from Forsyth County Superior Court (Edwin Wilson Jr., J.) N.C. App. Holding: In defending the rape claim by his daughter G.J., defendant sought to introduce evidence of ...

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Litigators routinely use preservation letters to prevent evidence from being destroyed. But the obilgatory practice is not without certain hazards, as highlighted by an opinion from the North Carolina Business Court. Judge Michael Robinson of Greensboro determined in DDM&S Holdings, LLC ...

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Crawford v. Nawrath (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-174-16, 19 pp.) (Lucy Inman, J.) Appealed from Mecklenburg County District Court (Rebecca Tin, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Even though the housing inspector’s report did not mention some of the defects in the ...

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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Prosecutors should have to disclose evidence of innocence obtained after a person is convicted, a North Carolina State Bar panel agreed Wednesday. The ethics subcommittee voted 3-2 at a meeting in Greensboro to support the general ...

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Look, he only stole the alleged drug money because he has kids, OK? But rather than upholding Dittrell Dove’s conviction for the charge of stealing evidence, the North Carolina Court of Appeals held that the alleged drug money in question ...

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State v. Dove (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-209-16, 6 pp.) (Valerie Zachary, J.) Appealed from Onslow County Superior Court (John Nobles Jr., J.) N.C. App. Holding: An informant conducted a drug sale on behalf of law enforcement, but before he turned ...

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