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Where defendant caused a head-on collision by driving on the wrong side of an interstate highway, such reckless driving asserted by an experienced state trooper was reasonable grounds for belief that defendant was driving while impaired. The trial court did not err in concluding the investigating trooper’s application established probable cause for a search warrant

During defendant’s police interview, there was a brief moment when one detective aggressively called defendant a liar, and there were questions about his wife’s knowledge of defendant’s infidelity while she was ill. These actions appeared to be the exception to the custodial interview as a whole, and the totality of the circumstances instead point to

For the same conduct, defendant was convicted of (1) assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, a felony; (2) assault inflicting serious injury in the presence of a minor, a misdemeanor; and (3) habitual misdemeanor assault. Under State v. Fields, 374 N.C. 629, 843 S.E.2d 186 (2020), the trial court

N.C. Probation Officer Kierra Mobley testified about defendant’s multiple willful probation violations, as alleged in her report: (1) testing positive three times for controlled substances, (2) twice failing to report to his probation officer, (3) being charged with criminal trespass and (4) being discharged from the Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities program for failing to

Even though defendant was indicted in 2019, evidence of her pseudoephedrine purchases going back to 2012 was relevant to show a consistent pattern of behavior by defendant, indicating she was engaged in the manufacturing and trafficking of methamphetamine. National Precursor Log Exchange records – which reveal defendant’s pattern of purchasing, or attempting to purchase, large ...