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 , COA16-1206 (Judge Richard Dietz) , Published
State v. Miller

Confrontation Clause; Testimonial Statements; Forfeiture; State's Waiver of Harmlessness Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

, Court of Appeals , COA16-768 (Judge Phil Berger Jr.) , Published
State v. Perry

Motion to suppress; Ineffective assistance of counsel; Harbison

, Court of Appeals , COA16-307 (Judge Donna Stroud) , Published
State v. Street

obtaining property by false pretenses, doctrine of recent possession, jury instruction

, Court of Appeals , COA16-1211 (Judge Hunter Murphy) , Published
State v. Thompson

Criminal Street Gang Activity; Witness Identification; Robbery with a Dangerous Weapon

, Court of Appeals , COA16-1277 (Judge John Tyson) , Published
Wilson v. Guinyard

civil contempt; child custody; legal representation; adherence to visitation schedules; attorney's fees.

, Supreme Court , 216A16 (Justice Robin Hudson) , Published
Harrison v. Gemma Power Sys., LLC

Workers' Compensation; whether the Industrial Commission's findings of fact support the conclusion that plaintiff is not entitled to compensation for permanent partial disability.

, Supreme Court , 124A16 (Per Curiam) , Published
Murray v. Univ. of N.C. at Chapel Hill

Whether the trial court erred in denying defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's suit against the University; whether defendant properly raised a sovereign immunity defense before the trial court, thereby making defendant's interlocutory appeal from denial of its motion to dismiss immediately reviewable by an appellate court; whether plaintiff's complaint should be dismissed on mootness grounds.

, Supreme Court , 35PA16 (Justice Sam Ervin IV) , Published
State v. Baker

Appeal from conviction for attempted first-degree rape of a child; whether the trial court erred in failing to dismiss the attempted rape charge for insufficiency of the evidence.

, Supreme Court , 252PA14-2 (Justice Michael Morgan) , Published
State v. Campbell

Whether the Court of Appeals erred in invoking Appellate Rule 2 to consider defendant's unpreserved argument on appeal.

, Supreme Court , 167PA16 (Justice Barbara Jackson) , Published
State v. Godwin

Whether N.C. Rule of Evidence 702(a1) requires a witness in a DWI case to be qualified as an expert pursuant to Rule 702(a) before he may testify to the issue of impairment related to HGN results; whether the trial court erred in denying defendant's request for a special jury instruction explaining that results of a chemical breath test were not conclusive evidence of impairment.

, Supreme Court , 208PA16 (Justice Sam Ervin IV) , Published
State v. Holloman

Whether the defendant is entitled to a new trial based upon the trial court's self-defense instructions.

, Supreme Court , 27PA16 (Justice Mark Martin) , Published
State v. Jones

Whether the State failed to prove the 'trespassory taking' element required for a conviction for felonious larceny.

, Supreme Court , 97A16 (Justice Mark Martin) , Published
State v. Knight

Admissibility of statements that defendant made to police after he was taken into custody; whether defendant made a knowing and voluntary waiver of his Miranda rights; whether admission of the statements was error and, if so, whether the error was prejudicial.

, Supreme Court , 213PA16 (Justice Paul Newby) , Published
State v. McKiver

Whether the trial court's admission of potentially incriminating information obtained from an anonymous 911 caller who did not testify at trial violated defendant's rights under the Confrontation Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

, Supreme Court , 113PA16 (Justice Sam Ervin IV) , Published
State v. Miller

As-applied constitutional challenge to N.C.G.S. 90-95(d1)(1)(c), which makes it illegal for any person previously convicted of possessing or manufacturing methamphetamine to possess a pseudoephedrine product.

, Supreme Court , 199PA16 (Justice Cheri Beasley) , Published
State v. Romano

Admissibility of blood test evidence obtained in DWI case; application of U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in Birchfield v. North Dakota and Missouri v. McNeely to N.C.G.S. 20-16.2(b), permitting warrantless testing of an unconscious person an officer reasonably believes to have committed an implied-consent offense.