When a person is arrested for a criminal offense, the judicial official authorizing pretrial release must issue an appropriate order containing a statement of the conditions imposed. G.S. 15A-534(d). This order is normally memorialized on the AOC-CR-200 form (Conditions Of Release And Release Order). The CR-200 form includes sections for the judicial...
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The superior court has jurisdiction to accept a guilty plea to a misdemeanor tendered in lieu of a felony charge.
A trial judge may permit any party to introduce additional evidence at any time before verdict. See G.S. 15A-1226(b).
The Double Jeopardy Clause does not prohibit multiple punishments for offenses when one is include within the other under the Blockburger test if both are tried at the same time and if the legislature specifically authorizes cumulative punishment for both offenses.
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.
When a statute sets forth disjunctive or alternative ways by which an offense may be committed, a warrant or indictment should charge them conjunctively, linking the alternatives by the word “and” instead of “or”.
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