This morning a panel of NC Supreme Court justices will hear oral arguments in the case of Joshua Andrew Stepp, the Raleigh Iraq War veteran convicted for sexually assaulting and beating to death his 10-month-old stepdaughter in 2009. In 2011 Stepp was found guilty of felony murder and sentenced to life in prison after a […]
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Does a DV protection order allow cops to search someone’s home?
Mecklenburg County sheriff’s deputies arrived to a man’s house to serve him with a domestic violence protection order. When the man answered, the officers entered the house to search for weapons. The found no guns, but they did find marijuana in the process of being manufactured. Now the man wants the drug charges thrown out, […]
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NC Supreme Court reverses decision on woman who ordered hit on father
A Guilford County woman convicted of first-degree murder after hiring hit men to kill her father will not receive a new trial, the N.C. Supreme Court ruled last month. The court’s decision reversed the ruling made two years ago by the N.C. Court of Appeals in the case of Brandi Grainger, a 25-year-old serving life […]
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Did a prosecutor and police send an innocent teenager to prison for murder?
1. From the start, the case seemed destined to live or die with Edward Tender. In early December, the 62-year-old former volunteer fire chief hobbled to the witness stand. He wore a rumpled suit on his slight frame. His cheeks were hollow and weathered. A large, open collar sagged over his chest, as if suggesting […]
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Man says shooting was self-defense;victim says it was revenge
Revenge or self-defense? A Wake County jury was in its second day of deliberation in the trial of Justin Bass, 25, a Fuquay-Varina man charged with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. The shooting, which occurred during a late-night gathering at the Bay Tree apartment complex […]
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Fuquay-Varina man not guilty of attempted murder for shooting neighborhood bully
The jury in the Wake County trial of Justin Bass, a 25-year-old Fuquay-Varina man who shot a neighborhood bully during a late-night July 4 gathering, issued a not guilty verdict for attempted murder. The jury did, however, convict Bass for assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury—a lesser charge of the second offense he’d […]
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Fuquay defendant says he shot confronter as he reached for knife
Revenge or self-defense? That’s what Wake County Assistant District Attorney Becky Holt asked the jury during her closing argument in the trial of Justin Bass, 25, a Fuquay-Varina man charged with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. The shooting, which occurred during a late-night gathering at […]
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Fuquay man claims he shot neighborhood bully in self-defense
Yesterday in the Wake County courthouse, defense attorney Michael Howell asked his client, seated on a witness stand, a blunt question. “Mr. Bass, did you shoot Mr. Fogg?” “Yes sir, I did,” said the witness. “Why?” said Howell. “I was fearful of my life, and I was threatened by Mr. Fogg.” The witness was Justin […]
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Big Moe, Ms. Fat and Bam-Bam: A gangsta’s tale
UPDATE 12/22/24: Fuquay-Varina man not guilty of attempted murder for shooting neighborhood bully UPDATE 12/18/14: Fuquay defendant says he shot confronter as he reached for knife UPDATE 12/17/14: Fuquay man claims he shot neighborhood bully in self-defense Jerome Fogg’s second mistake was in bringing a knife to a gunfight. This week in a Wake County […]
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SCOTUS backs NC Supreme Court about traffic officer’s mistake about the law
The U.S. Supreme Court today affirmed the validity of traffic stops made by officers who administer them based on a mistaken understanding of the law—provided the mistake was reasonable. The case, Heien v. North Carolina, originated in Surry County, when an interdiction officer pulled over a car with a broken taillight, mistakenly believing that the […]
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