NC Criminal Law
This post summarizes the published criminal opinions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals released on August 19, 2026.
Trial court erred by dismissing the charges against the defendant pursuant to G.S. 15A-954(a)(4) as the defendant failed to show that he was irreparably prejudiced by the arresting officer’s testimony regarding the issuance of an earlier warrant against the defendant – testimony that violated the trial...
If a search warrant validly describes the premises to be searched, a car located on the premises may be searched even though the warrant contains no description of the car. State v. Courtright, 60 N.C. App. 247, 249 (1983).
Two or more offenses may be joined for trial when the offenses are based on the same act or transaction or on a series of acts or transactions connected together or constituting parts of a single scheme or plan. See G.S. 15A-926(a).
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.
The rules of evidence do not apply at sentencing. G.S. 8C-1101(b)(3).
If the elements of the offense were committed in more than one county, each county in which an element of the crime was committed has concurrent venue. See G.S. 15A-132(a).