…appropriate sanction for a violation. See, e.g., State v. Martinez, 781 S.E.2d 532 (N.C. Ct. App. 2016) (unpublished) (not abuse of discretion for trial court to allow testimony despite discovery…
This post summarizes opinions issued by the Court of Appeals of North Carolina on February 4, 2020. (1) Trial court did not abuse its discretion by denying defendant’s Motion for…
This post provides summaries of the opinions of the North Carolina Court of Appeals from September 3, 2019. Trial judge did not abuse discretion in admitting crime scene photographs into…
…challenge for cause where the juror expresses support for Black Lives Matter and asserts a willingness and ability to follow the law. Appellate court opinions from other states support this…
…applied to one of the very few appellate opinions that address these dual jurisdiction youth: In re K.G., 817 S.E.2d 790 (2018). In that case, K.G. was adjudicated delinquent and…
This post summarizes the published criminal opinions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals released on December 19, 2023, and January 2, 2024. These summaries will be added to Smith’s…
…in lay opinion testimony under Rule 701. Under that rule, if a witness is not testifying as an expert, then his or her opinions or inferences are supposed to be…
…or in response to some level of disruption or violence. Judicial opinions in plain English. Two federal judges in Colorado have started providing brief, plain English summaries of their opinions…
…that Black Lives Matter has come up in jury selection, but it was perhaps the first time that potential jurors were asked their opinions on a movement that exploded exponentially…
…of the July Fourth Circuit case summaries). It’s a massive 99-page set of opinions decided 9-6 in favor of the defendant with 4 separate opinions concurring with the majority and…
