Legal Opinion

State v. Harris

Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Decided July 17, 2012No. COA11-829PublishedCited by 1 opinion

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…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Crawford v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
  3. Melendez-Diaz v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
  4. State v. BraswellSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1985
  5. State v. WalkerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1986

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