State v. Harris
Court of Appeals of North Carolina
1Opinion of the Court
BRYANT, Judge.
Where the trial court did not abuse its discretion in failing to intervene ex mero motu because the prosecutor commented that “only two people in this courtroom . . . actually know what happened,” where the admission of testimony from a serologist regarding *550a comparison of DNA profiles did not amount to plain error, and because we do not review contentions arising out of closing arguments for plain error, we hold there was no error in the judgment of the trial court.
On 25 January 2011, a criminal trial against defendant Harold Harris, Jr., was commenced before a Forsyth County…
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