BOLIVIA (AP) A North Carolina man who was beaten so badly as a toddler that he became deaf and blind has died, and prosecutors have charged a couple who already served more than a decade in prison for the crime ...

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According to defendant’s evidence, Quinton Epps shot defendant’s cousin and then pointed his gun at defendant. When defendant shot Epps, defendant was in a place where he had a right to be – a public street – so he was ...

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SALISBURY (AP) A North Carolina district attorney says he will seek the death penalty against the adoptive father of a teenager who was missing for years before her body was found in South Carolina. The judge presiding over a hearing ...

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JACKSONVILLE (AP) A former Marine Corps sergeant has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the shooting death of his wife in 2014. Local news sources report 36-year-old Christopher Michael Skaggs pleaded guilty to first-degree murder March 27 in an Onslow County ...

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RALEIGH (AP) A North Carolina appeals court says an abused woman can’t sue her local social services department over alleged failures that allowed her estranged husband to shoot her in the face and kill her parents as their children watched. ...

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State v. Wilkes (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-346-17, 8 pp.) (Richard Dietz, J.) Appealed from Catawba County Superior Court (Robert Sumner, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Even though, when officers arrested defendant, they still lacked probable cause to believe that defendant had ...

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State v. Madonna (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-321-17, 17 pp.) (Chris Dillon, J.) (Phillip Berger Jr., J., concurring) Appealed from Wake County Superior Court (Henry Hight Jr., J.) N.C. App. Holding: Despite defendant’s own testimony that she had lied to several ...

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State v. Mosley (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-323-17, 9 pp.) (John Arrowood, J.) Appealed from McDowell County Superior Court (R. Gregory Horne, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Although there was evidence of malice that would support defendant’s sentencing as a Class B1 ...

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Velasquez v. Sessions (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-163-17, 18 pp.) (Agee, J.) No. 16-1669, July 31, 2017; On Petition for Review; 4th Cir. Holding: A Honduran mother who illegally entered the U.S. with her son after his paternal grandmother had the ...

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State v. Broyhill (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-214-17, 30 pp.) (Rick Elmore, J.) Appealed from Wake County Superior Court (Paul Ridgeway, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Where a political consultant embezzled campaign funds, lied to cover up the embezzlement and then physically ...

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