A young man convicted of statutory rape and child abduction is entitled to a new trial because a Pitt County judge wrongly allowed prosecutors to use his application for a court-appointed lawyer as self-incriminating evidence, the North Carolina Court of ...

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State v. Kpaeyeh (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-121-16, 13 pp.) (Donna Stroud, J.) Appealed from Guilford County Superior Court (R. Stuart Albright, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Although there was a long delay (three and a half years) between defendant’s arrest and ...

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GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man who fled court during his trial for statutory rape has been found in his girlfriend’s attic, authorities said, ending a nearly weeklong manhunt. The strange case included the jury convicting the man despite ...

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GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — Investigators are searching for a North Carolina man who fled court during a trial on a statutory rape accusation. The Gaston Gazette reported that Superior Court Judge Linwood Foust issued an order for the arrest of 43-year-old Gary Franklin Simmons ...

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Bobbitt v. Eizenga (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-16-0050, 19 pp.) (Sam Ervin IV, J.) Appealed from Davie County District Court (Mary Covington, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: The trial court’s custody-related findings establish little more than that the parties’ child has ...

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State v. Banks (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-06-1200, 11 pp.) (Cheri Beasley, J.) (Barbara Jackson & Robert Hunter, JJ., not participating) Appealed from Rowan County Superior Court (Anna Mills Wagoner, J.) On discretionary review from the Court of Appeals. N.C. S. ...

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State v. Berry (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-07-0763, 30 pp.) (Sanford Steelman Jr., J.) (Robert C. Hunter, J., concurring in part & dissenting in part) Appealed from Alamance County Superior Court (James Hardin Jr., J.) N.C. App. Holding: After the parties ...

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State v. Rayfield (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-07-0014, 46 pp.) (Linda Stephens, J.) Appealed from Gaston County Superior Court (Jesse B. Caldwell III & Nathaniel J. Poovey, JJ.) N.C. App. Holding: Even though there was a three and a half-year gap ...

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Investigators with the Jackson County Sheriff's Office have charged a woman with statutory rape, and they're asking people who may have been victimized by the woman to contact them.

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State v. Banks Three months before defendant was sentenced, this court ruled in State v. Ridgeway, 185 N.C. App. 423, 648 S.E.2d 886 (2007), that separate punishments for the offenses of statutory rape and first degree rape (based on a single act of intercourse) are prohibited by legislative intent.

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