A divided North Carolina Supreme Court has adopted a new test to determine whether prosecutors have presented enough evidence for a jury to determine that a defendant had the intent to sell or deliver methamphetamine found in his possession, endorsing a four-factor analysis first ...

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WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina sheriff’s office has charged a man with spiking his wife’s rum with methamphetamine after she told him she wanted a divorce. The New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office tells news outlets that the woman ...

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A lawsuit filed by the family of a woman who died while being held in a North Carolina jail says she died “an agonizing death under inhumane conditions.” The Asheville Citizen Times reports the family of 34-year-old Michele Quantele Smiley ...

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GASTONIA (AP) Authorities say an assistant North Carolina district attorney has been arrested on several drug charges. News outlets report police in Waxhaw said officers stopped Gaston County Assistant District Attorney James Brandon Graham on April 22. The Union County ...

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State v. Maloney (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-156-17, 17 pp.) (Wanda Bryant, J.) (Hunter Murphy, concurring in part & concurring in the result in part) Appealed from Beaufort County Superior Court (Marvin Blount III, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Two trash bags, ...

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A convicted meth cook from Wilmington tried to pass himself off as a lumberjack after he rolled up on police as they were raiding a meth lab. Christopher Natale, 34, reportedly told the officers who came out to greet him ...

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A professional bull rider-turned-alleged meth dealer and convicted sex offender wanted a judge to consider the fact that he’d participated in a substance abuse program as a mitigating factor during his sentencing hearing. But Rickey Wagner Jr. had a problem. ...

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State v. Garrett (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-118-16, 12 pp.) (Rick Elmore, J.) Appealed from Madison County Superior Court (Gary Gavenus, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Although the state’s evidence indicates that defendant set up a methamphetamine buy, the state did not ...

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