RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina legislature agreed on Tuesday that only children 8 and older can be prosecuted in the state’s juvenile courts — up from the current age of 6. The bill, which the Senate approved unanimously after ...

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A North Carolina county’s chief district court judge says he’ll stop having juveniles wear restraints in his courtroom, days after local news reports covered the practice. The News & Observer and The Herald-Sun published a story last week on Durham ...

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At his trial on an assault petition, the juvenile defendant testified that he threw a full, unopened milk carton at his teacher’s face, thereby intentionally striking her. Only after his testimony did the trial court inform the juvenile that he ...

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Throwing a single chair with no other person nearby and without attempting to hit another person and without hitting even any other item in a school cafeteria is not disorderly conduct as defined by G.S. § 14-288.4(a)(1). We vacate the ...

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Although a panel of this court recently held that a trial court did not need to consider all of the G.S. § 7B-2501(c) factors when entering a dispositional order, we follow prior precedent and hold that the trial court erred ...

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This opinion has been withdrawn. State v. Benitez (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-025-18, 35 pp.) (Donna Stroud, J.) Appealed from Lee County Superior Court (Douglas Sasser & C. Winston Gilchrist, JJ.) N.C. App. Holding: If applicable, a statutory amendment would have ...

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In re J.B. (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-003-18, 12 pp.) (Ann Marie Calabria, J.) (Chris Dillon, J., concurring in part & dissenting in part) Appealed from Mecklenburg County District Court (David Strickland, J.) N.C. App. Holding: G.S. § 7B-2506(12), the statutory ...

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In re R.S.M. (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-384-17, 5 pp.) (Hunter Murphy, J.) Appealed from Hoke County District Court (Regina Joe, J.) N.C. App. Holding: A juvenile court counselor reported that respondent had violated the terms of his probation by staying ...

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State v. Saldierna (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-204-17, 25 pp.) (Wanda Bryant, J.) Appealed from Mecklenburg County Superior Court (Forrest Bridges & Jesse Caldwell, JJ.) On remand from the N.C. Supreme Court. N.C. App. Holding: Although the juvenile defendant’s request to ...

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In re T.K. (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-148-17, 21 pp.) (Lucy Inman, J.) (Donna Stroud, J., concurring) Appealed from Wayne County District Court (Les Turner, J.) N.C. App. Holding: In this juvenile delinquency case, neither a juvenile court counselor nor any ...

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