Legal Opinion

State v. Malachi

Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Decided March 5, 2019No. COA16-752-2PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

INMAN, Judge.

*233 The trial court did not commit plain error by allowing evidence of a handgun a police officer removed from the waistband of a man in the course of stopping, seizing, and frisking him after forming a reasonable articulable suspicion that the suspect may have been engaged in unlawful conduct and was armed and dangerous.

*668 Terance Germaine Malachi ("Defendant") appeals from his conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon following a jury trial and a related conviction for attaining habitual felon status. This is this Court's *234 second decision regarding Defendant's appeal, to…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. North Carolina v. AlfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  3. United States v. SokolowSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
  4. Florida v. J. L.Supreme Court of the United States · 2000
  5. Florida v. JLSupreme Court of the United States · 2000

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3Cited by6 opinions

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  5. State v. RoysterCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2021

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