RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper wants to elevate a local judge to be a special Superior Court judge after the General Assembly rejected one of his recent choices. Cooper announced Aug. 14 that longtime Wake County District Judge Craig ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina Senate Republicans began carrying out overrides June 19 on a pair of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes of election-related legislation. Cooper had complained that the bills meddle in elections and continue GOP efforts to reshape the courts. ...

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RALEIGH (AP) The first day of North Carolina judicial candidacy filing attracted more than 120 people seeking seats on the bench this November. Filing began at noon June 18 for over 150 District Court or Superior Court seats, along with one ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Republican lawmakers are advancing fragments of a statewide remapping of North Carolina’s judicial election districts in hopes of passing them before candidate filing for judges begins in just over two weeks. A House committee voted late June 1 ...

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Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed a criminal defense lawyer and a district court judge to fill two seats on the Superior Court bench. David Phillips will join the District 27A bench in Gaston County, where he’s had an eponymous criminal ...

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State v. Armstrong (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-206-16, 10 pp.) (Robert Hunter Jr., J.) Appealed from Nash County Superior Court (Alma Hinton, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Even though defendant was originally indicted for one felony (habitual impaired driving), one misdemeanor (driving ...

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After 25 years of practicing criminal defense law, Jeffery Foster of the Foster Law Firm in Greenville has become the newest superior court judge in North Carolina. Gov. Pat McCrory appointed Foster to fill the seat on the Pitt County ...

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ELIZABETH CITY (AP) — A chief resident Superior Court judge in northeastern North Carolina has filed a lawsuit to block the state agency that regulates attorneys’ conduct from holding a disciplinary hearing against him. The Daily Advance of Elizabeth City ...

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“Casey Viser: Last on the ballot, first in your heart.” That punch line and subsequent crowd laughter punctuated a forum — largely a light-hearted affair — at the Charlotte School of Law last week. Nine candidates for district and superior ...

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State v. High Even though a deputy clerk of superior court signed and dated a probation violation report during defendant’s original probation period, since there was no time stamp on the report, the state failed to show that the report was filed with the clerk during defendant’s original probation period.

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