State v. Lofton

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Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding a prerequisite to a plain error analysis requires the appellate court to first find prejudice against the defendant, meaning “the error had a probable impact on the jury’s finding that the defendant was guilty.”
• vacating the defendant’s two sentences and remanding for a new sentence hearing upon the State’s concession “the trial court failed to make sufficient findings to support the two sentences”
• vacating the defendant’s two sentences and remanding for a new sentence hearing upon the State’s concession “the trial court failed to make sufficient findings to support the two sentences”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Lofton
  Supreme Court of North Carolina· 2019-05-10· cited 2×
• State v. Brantley-Phillips
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 2021-07-06
• State v. Ballard
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 2022-05-03
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 2022-12-20
• State v. Borlase
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 2024-01-02
• State v. Crowder
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 2026-02-18