State v. Ruof

BRANCH, Justice.

Defendant assigns as error the failure of the trial judge to grant his motion in limine. The thrust of the motion was to prohibit any comment regarding defendant’s association with “The Outlaws” motorcycle club. The trial judge considered the written motion and stated that he would rule on it “at the appropriate time during the course of the trial.”

Generally, a motion in limine seeks to secure in advance of trial the exclusion of prejudicial matter. North Carolina has no statutory provisions for such a motion, and it is rarely if ever used in this State. In those jurisdictions…