A defendant who claims self-defense may offer evidence of the victim’s prior violent conduct, if known to the defendant, to demonstrate the reasonableness of the defendant’s fear of the victim. Under Rule 404(b), however, evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts, is generally constrained by the requirements of similarity and temporal proximity between the past and present conduct. In State v...
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The state must give the defendant, at the beginning of jury selection, a written list of the names of all witnesses whom the state reasonably expects to call during the trial.
A defendant has a Sixth Amendment right to counsel during interrogation by an officer or an informant about a pending charge after adversarial judicial proceedings for that charge have begun.
A criminal charge contained in a pleading must be sufficiently definite to identify the offense, enable the defendant to prepare his or her defense, bar a subsequent prosecution for the same offense, and enable the court to impose judgment.
All criminal pleadings must name or otherwise identify the defendant. See G.S. 15A-924(a)(1).
With the consent of all parties, the district court may accept guilty pleas to Class H and I felonies. G.S. 7A-272(c).
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