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State v. Jones

Citations

  • 816 S.E.2d 921
  • 260 N.C. App. 104

Syllabus

ineffective assistance of counsel claim, self-defense, bench trial, not deficient performance

How courts have described this case

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  • “[W]e . . . presume that the trial court knows and follows the applicable law unless an appellant shows otherwise.”
  • “The sanction for failure to give notice of a defense of self-defense is normally exclusion of evidence upon the State’s objection or refusal to give a jury instruction on self-defense.”
  • “The sanction for failure to give notice of a defense of self-defense is normally exclusion of evidence upon the State’s objection or refusal to give a jury instruction on self-defense.”

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Judges: Stroud

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