State v. Young, ___ N.C. App. ___, 790 S.E.2d 182 (Aug. 2, 2016)

The court rejected the defendant’s argument that two photos from a photo line-up were irrelevant. The victims had identified the photographs during a photo lineup as depicting the perpetrator. The photographs were admitted as substantive evidence and published to the jury at trial without objection. The court rejected the defendant’s argument that the photos were irrelevant where no witness testified that the defendant was in fact the person depicted in them. The court found that the photographs were properly authenticated by testifying witnesses and the jury “was well able” to look at them and to look at the defendant in the courtroom and draw their own conclusions about whether he was the person depicted.