Among the new opinions released this morning from the N.C. Court of Appeals:
- a unanimous three-judge panel ordered a new trial in the Mecklenburg County murder case against Artives Jerod Freeman after ruling that the trial-court judge erred in allowing a lawyer to overrule Freeman’s wishes in challenging a potential juror,
- a split 2-1 panel upheld a ruling in favor of Bessemer’s zoning board of adjustment in a billboard dispute.
- a unanimous panel upheld a conviction of “assault on a government official” in an Onslow County case in which a suspect spit on a Jacksonville police officer after a drug-related car chase, and
- a unanimous panel reversed a lower-court ruling in a Henderson County nursing home medical malpractice case because the plaintiff’s expert witnesses did not “testify to a familiarity with the standards of practice in the same or a similar community as defendant.”
