Appellate Court Opinions

Slip opinions (court's decision in a case) filed and written by the justices of the Supreme Court or judges of the Court of Appeals

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32,354 Appellate Court Opinions

, Court of Appeals , COA20-550 (Judge Valerie Zachary) , Published
State v. Billings

satellite-based monitoring; relief under Grady III; subject-matter jurisdiction

, Court of Appeals , COA20-608 (Judge Tobias Hampson) , Published
State v. Brantley-Phillips

Obtaining Property by False Pretense; Sufficiency of Evidence; Fatal Variance of Jury Instructions

, Court of Appeals , COA20-501 (Judge Richard Dietz) , Unpublished
State v. Brown

Challenge to denials of motions to suppress; petition for a writ of certiorari; argument raised on appeal different from basis for motions in trial court; appellate argument not preserved

, Court of Appeals , COA20-530 (Judge Fred Gore) , Unpublished
State v. Freeman

kidnapping; restraint for the purpose of inflicting serious bodily harm; sufficiency of the evidence.

, Court of Appeals , COA20-705 (Judge John Arrowood) , Unpublished
State v. Frye

issues are whether court committed plain error by failing to inform jury of its decision to sustain objection and whether court abused its discretion by admitting alleged inflammatory evidence

, Court of Appeals , COA20-644 (Judge Darren Jackson) , Published
State v. Gibson

trial court did not err in denying motion to dismiss where driver's license and social security card were competent evidence of defendant's identity; no notice an opportunity to be heard on the issue of attorney's fees is required when payment is required as a condition of probation under State v. Friend

, Court of Appeals , COA20-390 (Judge Fred Gore) , Published
State v. Gonzalez

Subpoena, telephone service, failure to appear, show cause hearing, and criminal contempt

, Court of Appeals , COA20-735 (Judge John Tyson) , Unpublished
State v. Harris

Drug trafficking, ineffective assistance of counsel, Franks v. Delaware hearing, right to speedy appeal, prejudice, concurrent sentences.

, Court of Appeals , COA20-9 (Judge Donna Stroud) , Published
State v. Hills

Impermissible opinion,
Facial validity of indictment,
Essential elements of crime charged

, Court of Appeals , COA20-486 (Judge Fred Gore) , Unpublished
State v. Kearney

Preservation, jury instructions, and self-defense

, Court of Appeals , COA20-650 (Judge Jeff Carpenter) , Published
State v. Logan

Motion to suppress; unreasonable search and seizure; probable cause; four corners of search warrant affidavit; nexus between location and illegal activity at the time warrant was executed

, Court of Appeals , COA20-563 (Judge John Tyson) , Published
State v. Medlin

Felony obtaining property by false pretenses; special conditions of probation, NCGS 15A-1343(b1); conditions related to offense; child visitation; abuse of discretion.

, Court of Appeals , COA20-118 (Judge Jeff Carpenter) , Unpublished
State v. Miles

malicious conduct by prisoner; ineffective assistance of counsel; plain error; lay-opinion testimony; motion to sequester witnesses; calculation of prior record level

, Court of Appeals , COA20-53 (Judge John Tyson) , Unpublished
State v. Moore

First-degree murder; Evidence Rule 702; fingerprint testimony; right to public trial; preserved objections.

, Court of Appeals , COA20-593 (Judge Tobias Hampson) , Unpublished
State v. Salazar

Motion to Continue; Forensic Reports; Confrontation Clause

, Court of Appeals , COA19-250-2 (Judge John Tyson) , Published
State v. Scott

Second-degree murder; blood evidence of BAC; remand; Fourth Amendment search and seizure; harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.

, Court of Appeals , COA20-887 (Judge Tobias Hampson) , Unpublished
State v. Shook

Waiver of counsel; NCGS 15A-1242

, Court of Appeals , COA20-421 (Judge Lucy Inman) , Unpublished
State v. Stevens

Motion to Dismiss; Sufficiency of the Evidence; Rule 404(b); Rule 403

, Court of Appeals , COA20-439 (Judge Darren Jackson) , Unpublished
Van Kampen v. Garcia

professional responsibility; disqualification of counsel based on conflicts of interest between former counsel and counsel associated in practice with former counsel; conflict imputation to lawyers associated in practice; Rules 1.6, 1.9, and 1.10 of the North Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct; no appeal of right exists from the denial of a motion to disqualify opposing counsel; trial court did not err, much less abuse its discretion, in denying motion to disqualify based on imputed conflict between former counsel in the same case who became associated in practice with opposing counsel after representation was terminated