Legal Opinion

State v. Sapp

Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Decided June 3, 2008No. COA07-1135PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

STEELMAN, Judge.

Defendant’s acts of withdrawal and moving a female victim from the couch to the floor established that there was a separate penetration supporting a second rape charge. When defendant raped one of the victims twice during the course of a home invasion and robbery, a third rape by his co-defendant was a natural or probable consequence of the robbery and the trial court properly submitted the third rape to the jury under an acting in concert theory. Evidence that young children were confined to a bedroom while defendants terrorized the family during the course of a robbery was…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Engle v. IsaacSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  2. State v. FulcherSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1978
  3. State v. WestbrookSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1971
  4. State v. BarnesSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1997
  5. State v. HuntSupreme Court of North Carolina · 2003

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. State v. SandersCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2013
  2. State v. AretzCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2009
  3. State v. ClaxtonCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2013
  4. State v. ElderSupreme Court of North Carolina · 2022
  5. State v. ElderSupreme Court of North Carolina · 2022

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