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NC Supreme Court Cleans Up Rules on Dissent-Based Appeals

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For many moons, North Carolina was one of the few jurisdictions in which the losing party at the Court of Appeals could pursue an appeal as of right to the Supreme Court if the party managed to snag a dissenting opinion from...more

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Appellate Rulings Not Argued By Any Party; Or Too Many Fingers In The Pie

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Last year, I blogged about State v. Ellis where a passing motorist gave a Highway Patrol trooper the middle-finger salute and was arrested for his trouble. A divided Court of Appeals allowed the defendant’s conviction to...more

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To Error Is Human, But To Review Is Divine—Exceptions To Preserving Error

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Finally found time to blog on one of my favorite topics: exceptions and qualifications to the error preservation requirements of Appellate Rule 10! (Um, I heard those groans!). A few weeks ago the North Carolina Supreme...more

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