State v. West

Decision Date05 October 1995
Docket NumberNo. 342P95,342P95
Citation341 N.C. 656,462 S.E.2d 524
PartiesSTATE of North Carolina v. Ronald Alvin WEST.
CourtNorth Carolina Supreme Court

Philip P. Redwine, William M. Kunstler, Raleigh, for West. V. Lori Fuller, Assistant Attorney General, C. Colon Willoughby, Jr., District Attorney, for State.

Prior report: 119 N.C.App. 562, 459 S.E.2d 55.

ORDER

Upon consideration of the notice of appeal from the North Carolina Court of Appeals, filed by the Defendant in this matter pursuant to G.S. 7A-30, and the motion to dismiss the appeal for lack of substantial constitutional question filed by the Attorney General, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Court of Appeals: the motion to dismiss the appeal is

"Allowed by order of the Court in conference, this the 5th day of October 1995."

Upon consideration of the petition filed by Defendant in this matter for discretionary review of the decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to G.S. 7A-31, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Court of Appeals:

"Denied by order of the Court in conference, this the 5th day of October 1995."

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    • United States
    • Court of Appeal of North Carolina (US)
    • 21 de setembro de 2010
    ...150, 153, 476 S.E.2d 389, 391 (1996) (quoting State v. West, 119 N.C. App. 562, 565, 459 S.E.2d 55, 57, disc, review denied, 341 N.C. 656, 462 S.E.2d 524 (1995)), appeal dismissed and disc, review improvidently allowed, 346 N.C. 273, 485 S.E.2d 45 (1997). In making the required determinatio......
  • State Of North Carolina v. Kincer
    • United States
    • Court of Appeal of North Carolina (US)
    • 16 de novembro de 2010
    ......Austin, 320 N.C. 276, 290, 357 S.E.2d 641, 650, cert, denied, 484 U.S. 916, 98 L. Ed. 2d 224 (1987) (internal citation omitted). If the answer to this question is in the affirmative, the trial court's conclusions of law are binding on appeal as well. State v. West, 119 N.C. App. 562, 565, 459 S.E.2d 55, 57 (citation omitted), disc, reviewdenied and appeal dismissed, 341 N.C. 656, 462 S.E.2d 524 (1995). Page 7 B. Legal Analysis 1. Multiple HP-14 Forms         In challenging the trial court's decision to deny his suppression motion, Defendant first ......
  • State v. Hogg, No. COA06-1207 (N.C. App. 6/5/2007)
    • United States
    • Court of Appeal of North Carolina (US)
    • 5 de junho de 2007
    ......        DEFENDANT: I could have but I stayed . . . .         (Emphasis added). Therefore, by defendant's own admission, Officer Dawson's investigatory stop was consensual, and when an encounter is consensual, "no reasonable suspicion is required" for the stop. State v. West, 119 N.C. App. 562, 566, 459 S.E.2d 55, 57.58 (quoting Florida v. Bostick, 501 U.S. 429, 434, 115 L. Ed. 2d 389, 398 (1991)), appeal dismissed and disc. rev. denied, 341 N.C. 656, 462 S.E.2d 524 (1995).         The trial court, however, did not base its ruling on the fact that defendant's ......
  • State v. Wilson, No. COA08-1536 (N.C. App. 7/21/2009)
    • United States
    • Court of Appeal of North Carolina (US)
    • 21 de julho de 2009
    ...of force or submission to a show of authority." State v. West, 119 N.C. App. 562, 566, 459 S.E.2d 55, 58, disc. review denied, 341 N.C. 656, 462 S.E.2d 524 (1995) (citations omitted). "The test for determining whether a seizure has occurred is whether under the totality of the circumstances......

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