State v. Crump

BRYANT, Judge.

Where the plain language of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-51.4 (1) does not require a causal nexus between the disqualifying felony and the circumstances giving rise to the perceived need for the use of force, we find no error. Where defendant stipulated to a disqualifying felony before the charge conference, the trial court did not commit prejudicial error in giving a self-defense jury instruction. Where the facts of this specific case do not show that defendant was prejudiced by the trial court's limiting of the scope of defendant's questioning of prospective jurors during voir dire ,…