The Latest on the investigation of the fatal shooting of a North Carolina state trooper (all times local): 1:35 p.m. A prosecutor says a second person is facing a murder charge in the fatal shooting of a North Carolina state ...
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Read More »Authorities say a North Carolina man shot at officers during a standoff. News outlets report law enforcement responded to a home around 12:00 a.m. Saturday to serve an involuntary commitment order. The commitment papers resulted from an incident where 67-year-old ...
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Read More »Lee v. Town of Seaboard (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-155-17, 14 pp.) (Wynn, J.) No. 16-1447, July 14, 2017; USDC at Raleigh, N.C. (Dever, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A plaintiff whose excessive force suit alleges defendant police officer shot plaintiff as ...
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If you aim for the protections of a self-defense claim after discharging a firearm while repelling an attack, you better have pulled the trigger with bad intentions, according to a June 20 decision by the North Carolina Court of Appeals. ...
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Read More »RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The family of a black North Carolina man shot to death in a neighborhood confrontation in Raleigh has hired the lawyer representing two other black men who were killed by white police officers. State Rep. Justin ...
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Read More »WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Authorities in North Carolina say two 12-year-old boys have been charged in connection with the death of a teenage boy found shot behind a church in Winston-Salem. Multiple media outlets report Winston-Salem police say the two boys ...
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Read More »Nicolas v. Attorney General of the State of Maryland (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-082-16, 16 pp.) (Motz, J.) No. 15-6616, April 27, 2016; USDC at Baltimore, Md. (Bennett, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: The state’s suppression of two witness statements that purportedly ...
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Read More »CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina police captain who evaluates job performance and the decisions officers make is scheduled to continue his testimony in the trial of an officer accused in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man ...
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Read More »CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Jury selection was set to begin Monday in the trial of a white Charlotte police officer accused of fatally shooting an unarmed black man who was looking for help. Randall Kerrick is charged with voluntary manslaughter ...
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Read More »GOLDSBORO (AP) — A North Carolina community college is closing for the weekend because of a bomb threat, days after the campus was rocked by a slaying involving a self-avowed neo-Nazi Wayne Community College officials closed the Goldsboro campus at ...
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