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Supreme Court Published Opinions - October 2018

Note: Beginning in June 2012, opinions will be posted as Adobe PDFs. You can download a free copy of Adobe Reader here.

The summary following each opinion is prepared to offer lawyers and the public a general overview of what a particular opinion decides. The summary is not necessarily a full description of the issues discussed in an opinion.


10-17-2018 - Opinions

27843 - Goss v. State

The Court remands this post-conviction relief (PCR) matter to the circuit court for a de novo PCR hearing. The Court finds the PCR court's decision to take judicial notice of the substance of several witnesses' testimony and then find those witnesses not credible was error.

10-31-2018 - Opinions

27844 - In the Matter of Erickson

Respondent failed to notify the Commission on Lawyer Conduct of his five year suspension in North Carolina. After the belated discovery of the suspension, respondent was reciprocally suspended from the practice of law in South Carolina, retroactively applied from the date of his North Carolina suspension.