Going “Beyond the Bounds” of Rule 404(b) in a Case Involving the Death of a Child

Published for NC Criminal Law on August 29, 2016.

About a year ago, I wrote about State v. Hembree, 368 N.C. 2 (2015), a case in which the state supreme court reversed a murder conviction based on the State’s excessive use of Rule 404(b) evidence. This month, a divided court of appeals decided a case in the same vein. The case is State v. ... Read more

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