State v. Phillips

BRYANT, Judge.

Where the trial court failed to indicate in its criminal contempt order that the standard of proof applied in making its findings of fact was proof beyond a reasonable doubt, the order is fatally deficient. Accordingly, we must reverse.

*383During the Criminal Session of Superior Court in Stanly County commencing 16 July 2012, defendant James A. Phillips, Jr. - an attorney, appeared before the Honorable Sharon Tracey Barrett, Judge presiding, for an unscheduled matter at the request of Assistant District Attorney Robyn Singletary. The assistant district attorney brought to the…