Glenn Gerding News Today

The Supreme Court of North Carolina gets a lot of questions and filings from unrepresented litigants. Often, those folks are in the wrong court (they should be in the Court of Appeals)....

The state’s evidence showed a range of dates on which defendant abused his domestic partner’s daughter, “Margot.” During that range, the General Assembly reclassified the offense of intentional child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury (ICAISBI) from a Class C felony to a Class B2 felony; the offense of intentional child abuse inflicting serious physical injury

The trial court’s explicit finding that respondent’s “second suicide attempt” was a “fact[] supporting involuntary commitment” did not state exactly when the suicide attempts occurred. Nevertheless, the evidence established that the first and second attempts occurred within six months and three weeks of the hearing, respectively. Thus, the trial court’s finding could only refer to ...