CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Two North Carolina men have been arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter in a November crash that killed a 74-year-old woman. Charlie Molina-Calderon and Camron Tyler Moore, both 18, are accused of driving recklessly before and ...

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Despite the defense expert’s qualifications, her testimony about the “fight or flight” response to stress appeared to be proffered in order to cast a sheen of technical and scientific methodology onto a concept of which a lay person (and jury ...

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State v. Ford (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-065-16, 23 pp.) (Wanda Bryant, J.) Appealed from Person County Superior Court (W. Osmond Smith III, J.) N.C. App. Holding: While tracking a Myspace page directly to defendant through an electronic footprint or link ...

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State v. Barefoot (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-16-1033, 12 pp.) (Lucy Inman, J.) Appealed from Henderson County Superior Court (C. Phillip Ginn, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: All the evidence suggests that the victim had a legal right to be at ...

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CHARLOTTE (AP) — A judge in Charlotte has refused to move the trial of an officer charged in the shooting death of an unarmed black man nearly two years ago. Multiple media outlets reported that Superior Court Judge Robert Ervin ...

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The parents of a teenager convicted in the death of a fellow teen are not civilly liable, the North Carolina Court of Appeals found on June 16, upholding an earlier ruling from the Transylvania County Superior Court. Even if the ...

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Defense lawyers are vowing to appeal the convictions of four former Blackwater security guards after a federal judge handed down lengthy prison terms for their roles in a 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Iraq.

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WHITEVILLE (AP) — A Whiteville man will spend more than five years in prison following his conviction for killing his wife 14 years ago. The Fayetteville Observer reports (http://bit.ly/1tn0nQP ) that 53-year-old John Avery Phillip Cumbee was convicted Thursday of ...

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State v. Hatcher The state attempted to show malice by proving that defendant intentionally shot the victim; however, the state’s evidence showed that defendant and the victim were close friends, there was no ill will between them, and defendant had been playing with a loaded gun, not paying attention to where he was pointing it, when the gun discharged and a bullet struck the victim in the head, killing him.

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State v. Gaston Where defendant testified that he shot the victim accidentally, he was not entitled to a jury instruction on voluntary manslaughter.

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