When Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Ola Lewis determined that there was a conflict of interest between the state and defendant Jeffrey Smith, a Town of Dublin commissioner facing multiple charges related to gaming machines, she went full Oprah ...

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U.S. v. Stone (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-166-17, 19 pp.) (Agee, J.) No. 15-4510, Aug. 2, 2017; USDC at Alexandria, Va. (Hilton, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A defendant cannot overturn her fraud convictions for orchestrating a scheme to defraud mortgage companies ...

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A North Carolina judge has removed himself from the trial of a Boone motel operator accused in the deaths of three people who stayed in a room where carbon monoxide seeped into the room.

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The North Carolina Supreme Court has again declined to force a colleague to recuse himself from upcoming redistricting arguments because of spending by groups supporting his re-election campaign last year.

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Justice Samuel Alito bowed out of roughly six dozen matters that came before the Supreme Court in the past 10 months with no explanation. Alito's latest report of his finances clears up the mystery.

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Howe v. Howe Even though, after the trial judge ruled on the parties’ custody motions, the transcriptionist recorded the judge’s comment to the bailiff that the plaintiff-father was “creepy”, this was an impression the judge developed during the hearing; moreover, the judge awarded the father visitation consistent with the parties’ previous practice. The trial judge did not abuse her discretion when she denied the father’s motion for reconsideration before she recused herself. We affirm the denial of the father’s motion for reconsideration under N.C. R. Civ. P. 60.

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Harrington v. Wall A motion for judicial recusal, filed by the defendant in a child support case, was properly denied for lack of any substantial showing of personal bias, prejudice or interest on the part of the judge.

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Cordell v. Doyle. (Lawyers Weekly No. 10-16-0638, 21 pp.) (Rick Elmore, J.) Appealed from Buncombe County District Court. (Marvin P. Pope Jr., J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: The parties presented conflicting evidence concerning their communications – and the lack thereof ...

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