In re Foreclosure of Rivera (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-16-0562, 10 pp.) (Chris Dillon, J.) Appealed from Mecklenburg County Superior Court (Eric Levinson, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Since forgery is a legal – rather than equitable – defense to a ...

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CHARLOTTE  A Gaston County woman reported missing in South Carolina has turned herself in to police in Charlotte. North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, spokesman Pat Dowling said that 42-year-old Amy Arrington of Lowell turned herself in Wednesday night. Arrington was ...

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A county social service worker in North Carolina admitted Monday to ordering that records be faked during the probe of a child's death, and she's agreed to cooperate with authorities who are continuing to investigate her co-workers.

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State v. Grier Even though the trial court correctly ruled that a single instrument can be both a forgery and a chose in action, there was no evidence that the blank check defendant stole was a chose in action.

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State v. Brown Even though defendant acknowledged that someone else gave him the HP Invent payroll check and that he didn’t work for HP, and even though the bank teller said the check was “strange,” this was not sufficient to show that the check was forged, i.e., that the check was not actually from HP. We vacate defendant’s convictions of uttering a forged instrument, attempting to obtain property by false pretenses, and obtaining the status of habitual felon.

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