The evidence showed that at approximately 6 p.m. on Oct. 26, 2007, Thomas Simon, Cheryle Simon, George Wiggins and Mary Elizabeth Wiggins were returning to Fleetwood after a day of Christmas shopping in Winston-Salem. Thomas Simon was driving his 2002 ...

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Blackburn v. Carbone. (Lawyers Weekly No. 10-07-1212, 18 pp.) (Sam Ervin IV, J.) Appealed from Wilkes County Superior Court. (Anderson D. Cromer, J.) N.C. App. Click here for the full text of the opinion. Holding: A trial court’s conversion of ...

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Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. v. Caudill. When the defendant-insured decided to raise his auto liability limit from the statutory minimum to $100,000 per person and $300,000 per accident, he also signed a selection/rejection form indicating he . . .

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State v. Absher. The defendant made numerous requests for specific items of evidence that were favorable to him and material to his defense, and the state failed to provide the evidence, destroyed it and then stated it could not be produced. A flagrant violation of the defendant's constitutional rights occurred, and dismissal was appropriate.

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  State v. Vogt. (Lawyers Weekly No. 10-06-0981, 1 p.) (Per Curiam) (Sarah Parker, Ch.J., Patricia Timmons-Goodson & Robin E. Hudson, JJ., dissenting) Appealed from Wilkes County Superior Court. (Henry E. Frye Jr., J.) On appeal from the N.C. Court ...

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State v. Wagoner. (Lawyers Weekly No. 10-06-0975, 1 p.) (Per Curiam) (Sarah Parker, Ch.J., Patricia Timmons-Goodson & Robin E. Hudson, JJ., dissenting) Appealed from Wilkes County Superior Court. (Henry E. Frye Jr., J.) On appeal from the N.C. Court of ...

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Lee v. Gore. (Lawyers Weekly No. 10-07-0798, 28 pp.) (Linda M. McGee, J.) (James A. Wynn Jr., J., dissenting) Appealed from Wilkes County Superior Court (Henry E. Frye, J.) N.C. App. Holding: The Division of Motor Vehicles has no authority ...

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