…continuance, as well as defense counsel’s subsequent request to delay opening statements until Monday (after jury selection concluded mid-day Friday) in order to provide the defense an opportunity to listen…
…by the defense to the defendant’s statement to the officer being entered into evidence. There was likewise no objection to similar testimony in Ortiz-Zape. The Bridges court specifically left open…
…in identifying the substance at issue as a controlled one, that evidence may well suffice to survive a motion to dismiss. But, there are still some open questions about how…
…to consider whether the evidence gathered following Parisi’s arrest on impaired driving charges was admissible. Parisi was stopped at a checkpoint. The officer saw “an open box of alcoholic beverage[]”…
…appeals disagreed, ruling that a public place is any place “viewable from any location open to the view of the public at large.” Applying that principle to the facts of…
…reveal his incarceration crossed the line into improper propensity evidence. Having found that Hodges did not open the door, the court concluded that this evidence was offered to show only…
…is here and here. Although some prosecution-leaning folks worry, and some defense-leaning folks hope, that this signals the opening of a whole new avenue of review for capital defendants, I…
…presentation in open court of testimony from a witness who is at a different location if: (1) the requesting party establishes exceptional circumstances for such transmission; (2) appropriate safeguards for…
…and field to where the overturned car was. The officer could not open the car doors. Testimony from a witness for the defendant that the witness was driving the car…
…law school.] This time last year saw the opening of North Carolina’s first veterans treatment court in Harnett County. The governor and other leaders attended the opening ceremony. A year…