This post summarizes published criminal law decisions from the North Carolina Supreme Court released on May 6, 2022. These summaries will be added to the School’s Criminal Case Compendium, a free and searchable database of case summaries from 2008 to present. There was sufficient evidence to prove the defendant’s guilt of embezzlement of a controlled substance by an employee of a registrant or practitioner. State v. Woods, 2022-NCSC-56, ___ N.C. ___ (May 6, 2022). In this Mecklenburg County case, the Supreme Court affirmed per curiam State v. Woods, 275 N.C. App. 364 (2020), a case in which the Court of Appeals majority determined there was sufficient evidence to prove the defendant’s guilt of embezzlement of a controlled substance by an employee of a registrant or practitioner under G.S. 90-108(a)(4). Checking station to detect motor vehicle violations and impaired driving was reasonable and constitutional as the relevant factors weighed in favor of the public interest. State v. Cobb, 2022-NCSC-57, ___ N.C. ___ (May 6, 2022). In this Harnett County case, the defendant pled guilty to impaired driving after the trial court denied her motion to suppress evidence obtained at a checking station set up to ensure compliance with Chapter 20 and to detect impaired driving. The Court of Appeals vacated the trial court’s order denying the motion to suppress, determining that the trial court did not adequately weigh the factors necessary to determine whether the public interest in the checking station outweighed its infringement on the defendant’s Fourth Amendment privacy [...]
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