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This post summaries the published opinions in criminal cases issued by the North Carolina Court of Appeals on April 15, 2026.

Sufficient evidence supported denying the defendant’s motion to dismiss charges of accessing a government computer to defraud and obtaining property by false pretenses.


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A few years ago, T-shirts and coffee mugs with the phrase “Please do not confuse your Google search with my law degree,” were making the rounds. What simpler times those were. Thanks to the rapid development and proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) that “


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The statutory right to use deadly force in self-defense is not available to one who was committing a felony. G.S. 14-51.4(1). In


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In recent months, I have received several questions about what North Carolina’s cyberstalking statute covers and whether it may infringe on First Amendment free speech rights. This post addresses several potential legal issues under the statute.

Background. The statute is


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