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…Crawford, Marcus Shields, Faith Fickling, and Roy Wiggins were appointed as District Court Judges. Kaleidoscope Eyes. When Elton John talked about being “high as a kite” as a rocket man,…

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Failure to Appear at Civil No-Contact Hearing Was a Prior Opportunity for Cross-Examination and Constituted an Implied Waiver of Confrontation Rights at Subsequent Criminal Trial

…itself demonstrate unavailability. Rather, the State has the burden to demonstrate good-faith efforts to locate a witness before a finding of unavailability can be made. State v. Clonts, 254 N.C….

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…trial to ask for and consider the State’s position, and determine whether the waiver is being “tendered in good faith and is not a tactic to procure an otherwise impermissible…