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Petitions for Discretionary Review

Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jan 1, 1996
343 N.C. 309 (N.C. 1996)

Summary

holding that the trial court erred by admitting irrelevant evidence that the defendant who was charged with cocaine trafficking had a stamp on his passport indicating that he had visited Colombia approximately two months before his arrest, as it tended to mislead the jury as to the level of his involvement in drug trafficking, but nevertheless affirming his conviction because the properly admitted evidence against him was sufficiently overwhelming to make it "unlikely that a different result would have occurred at trial but for the introduction of the passport."

Summary of this case from State v. McKnight

Opinion

1996


Summaries of

Petitions for Discretionary Review

Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jan 1, 1996
343 N.C. 309 (N.C. 1996)

holding that the trial court erred by admitting irrelevant evidence that the defendant who was charged with cocaine trafficking had a stamp on his passport indicating that he had visited Colombia approximately two months before his arrest, as it tended to mislead the jury as to the level of his involvement in drug trafficking, but nevertheless affirming his conviction because the properly admitted evidence against him was sufficiently overwhelming to make it "unlikely that a different result would have occurred at trial but for the introduction of the passport."

Summary of this case from State v. McKnight
Case details for

Petitions for Discretionary Review

Case Details

Full title:PETITIONS FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

Court:Supreme Court of North Carolina

Date published: Jan 1, 1996

Citations

343 N.C. 309 (N.C. 1996)

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