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State v. Moore, 2025 N.C. App. Lexis 467

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Trial court erred in allowing State’s Drug Recognition Expert’s testimony where the DRE’s testimony did not apply the certification principles and methods reliably to the facts of this case. In the case at hand, the DRE performed an evaluation based on a video viewed after the incident whereas protocol required a live in person evaluation …

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Informational Scientific Primers for Officers of the Court: Intended to Strengthen Use of Forensic Science Evidence

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Officers of the Court including judges and attorneys can benefit from receiving information from neutral sources to inform their understanding of foundational scientific and forensic science principles. Inspired by a request from Congress and a National Research Council report, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Forensic Science Program has prepared 17 short primers …

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Appellant Reply Brief in State v. Anderson

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Addresses defendant’s motion to dismiss where evidence on causation was insufficient, failure to instruct the jury on intervening acts of others, failure to instruct the jury on lesser included offense of involuntary manslaughter when the evidence of malice was in conflict, and court’s failure to intervene in state’s closing argument. Reply Brief filed in June …

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Appellant Brief in State v. Anderson

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Appellant’s Brief addressing trial court’s denial of defendant’s motion to dismiss where the state did not prove the defendant’s actions proximately caused the decedents’ deaths and another individual’s actions were a superseding cause of the decedents’ deaths which broke the chain of causation. Also addresses trial court’s failure to instruct on whether intentional acts by …

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