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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33,106 Appellate Court Opinions

, Court of Appeals , COA18-26 (Judge John Tyson) , Unpublished
State v. Killette

Manufacturing methamphetamine; probation offer's search; motion to suppress; preserving right to appeal prior to guilty plea.

, Court of Appeals , COA17-1122 (Judge Hunter Murphy) , Unpublished
State v. LaClaire

Probation revocation hearing; Confrontation; Clerical error.

, Court of Appeals , COA18-135 (Judge Chris Dillon) , Unpublished
State v. Lemm

Assault; Deadly Weapon; Felony Hit and Run

, Court of Appeals , COA17-1415 (Judge Rick Elmore) , Published
State v. McQueen

Ineffective assistance of counsel; failure to correct inaccuracies in witness testimony and prosecutor's closing argument; N.C. Gen. Stat. 15A-1052(c) and 15A-1054; failure to preserve constitutional issue for appellate review.

, Court of Appeals , COA18-9 (Judge Richard Dietz) , Published
State v. Osborne

Possession of heroin; motion to dismiss for insufficient evidence; requirement of scientifically valid chemical analysis to identify controlled substance; exception where defendant makes statement identifying controlled substance

, Court of Appeals , COA18-151 (Judge Valerie Zachary) , Unpublished
State v. Owenby

arson; appellate jurisdiction; writ of certiorari; factual basis for guilty plea

, Court of Appeals , COA17-1226 (Judge Richard Dietz) , Unpublished
State v. Parker

Sex offender willful failure to register new address; trial court's response to jury's request for further instruction on definition of address; discretionary decisions not subject to plain error review; jury instruction on further deliberations and deadlock

, Court of Appeals , COA17-1393 (Judge Valerie Zachary) , Unpublished
State v. Pole

sexual offenses with a minor; motion to suppress; validity of search warrant; lay opinion testimony; use of victim to describe witness; ineffective assistance of counsel

, Court of Appeals , COA17-1399 (Judge Richard Dietz) , Unpublished
State v. Sanders

Anders review; guilty pleas; consolidated sentence

, Court of Appeals , COA18-259 (Judge Richard Dietz) , Unpublished
State v. Terry

Obtaining property by false pretenses; preservation of evidentiary challenge; horse swapping on appeal; motion to dismiss; sufficiency of evidence identifying defendant as perpetrator of offense

, Court of Appeals , COA17-1158 (Judge John Tyson) , Published
State v. Vann

Assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury; reliability of eye witness identification; jailhouse telephone conversation; Rule of Completeness; Confrontation Clause; failure to preserve.

, Supreme Court , 3A08-4 (Per Curiam) , Published
Adams Creek Assocs. v. Davis

Appeal from trial court's refusal to release defendants from jail due to their continued failure to comply with conditions imposed in an order of civil contempt; whether the Court of Appeals erred by affirming the trial court's order when the trial court did not consider defendants' evidence that they are unable to comply with the contempt order, as required under N.C.G.S. 5A-21(a)(3).

, Supreme Court , 294PA17 (Per Curiam) , Published
State v. Austin

Whether N.C.G.S. 15A-954(a)(9) establishes a procedure to hear a pretrial motion by a defendant to dismiss a murder charge based on the immunity provision of section 14-51.2, the 'castle doctrine.'

, Supreme Court , 68A18 (Per Curiam) , Published
State v. Krider

Whether the trial court erred in revoking defendant's probation under N.C.G.S. 15A-1344(f) after his probationary term expired; whether the State presented sufficient evidence that defendant willfully absconded probation in violation of N.C.G.S. 15A-1343(b)(3a) and whether the trial court abused its discretion in making that finding.