Appeals panels can’t disregard existing precedent

January 31, 2019 Leave a comment

In keeping with the holding of In re Civil Penalty, individual panels of the North Carolina Court of Appeals cannot disregard existing precedent just because the panel believes it improperly narrowed or distinguished another earlier precedent, the North Carolina ...

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Criminal Practice – Disjunctive Jury Instruction – Different Sexual Acts – No Reversible Error

May 18, 2017 Leave a comment

State v. Martinez (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-142-17, 24 pp.) (Chris Dillon, J.) (Wanda Bryant, J., concurring in the result only) Appealed from Mecklenburg County Superior Court (Yvonne Evans, J.) On remand from the N.C. Supreme Court. N.C. App. Holding: Where ...

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Appeals panels can’t disregard existing precedent

Criminal Practice – Disjunctive Jury Instruction – Different Sexual Acts – No Reversible Error