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34,637 Appellate Court Opinions
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
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
State v. Rousseau
Motion to Suppress
State v. Sanders
Anders review; guilty pleas; consolidated sentence
State v. Spicer
Probation violation
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
State v. Tilghman
Post-Conviction DNA Testing.
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.
State v. Wardrett
Narrative; Improper closing argument
Town of Pinebluff v. Moore Cty.
Extraterritorial jurisdiction
Watlington v. Dep't of Soc. Servs. Rockingham Cty.
Just cause; Whole Record Test; Unacceptable Personal Conduct
Supreme Court Opinions Filed September 21, 2018
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).
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.'
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.
State v. McPhaul
Whether the trial court committed prejudicial error in admitting testimony from the State's expert in fingerprint identification that tied defendant to the crimes for which he was convicted.
State v. Sayre
Whether an indigent defendant made a sufficient showing of 'materiality' under N.C.G.S. 15A-269 to require the trial court to appoint counsel to assist with his post-conviction motion for DNA testing to support his claim of innocence.
State v. Smith
Appeal from trial court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence; whether the warrantless search of the room in defendant's apartment in which contraband was found was constitutional; whether seizure of the contraband was permissible under the 'plain view' doctrine.
State v. Stimpson
Whether defendant, who, along with two accomplices, participated in a series of armed robberies over a two- to three-hour period, engaged in a single conspiracy or in multiple conspiracies to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon.