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For those of you who read this blog, you may recall the post I made just a couple months ago about expecting the unexpected: LINK In that post, I...

The N.C. Court of Appeals considers cases in panels of three judges. That means that three judges, randomly grouped together for a period of time,...

The issues in an appeal are usually controlled by the appealing party (the appellant), with some modification which arise from the response of the...

I recently had a wonderful long weekend in Charlotte at the North Carolina Advocates for Justice (NCAJ) convention. Like any legal convention we had...

If you've read this website and familiarized yourself with my background, you know that I practice exclusively in appellate law. All state appeals...

Sometimes I come on to a case where the client has been representing himself (called a pro se appeal), or where the client has had representation...

This firm recently represented a criminal defendant in a case involving a shot fired at a pickup truck. According to the State's evidence, the...

This firm recently raised the issue of entrapment in the criminal case of State v. Kevin Hayes (no relation to this firm!) and successfully argued...

The large majority of appeals in this state first go to the North Carolina Court of Appeals. The Court consists of 15 judges, and they review cases...