State v. Greene

BRYANT, Judge.

Where the trial court did not err in admitting defendant's confession, lay opinion testimony, or statements defendant made to a detention officer, we find no error in the judgment of the trial court.

In 2012, Rebecca1 moved in with her mother and her mother's boyfriend, defendant John Edward Greene, who lived in a three-bedroom trailer in Deep Gap, North Carolina. About a year later, Rebecca's relationship with defendant grew difficult; defendant would call Rebecca "fat" and "ugly" and often brought Rebecca to tears. When Rebecca was about fourteen years old, he also grew violent…