167 N.C. App. 242 - State v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
August 2011
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Cortez · United States v. Sokolow · Berkemer v. McCarty · Koufman v. Koufman
Most-quoted passages
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“Review of a trial court’s denial of a motion to suppress is limited to a determination whether the trial court’s findings of fact are supported by competent evidence and whether those findings support the trial court’s ultimate conclusions of law. The trial court’s findings are conclusive if supported by competent evidence, even if the evidence is conflicting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is well-established that '[a] single assignment generally challenging the sufficiency of the evidence to support numerous findings of fact . . . is broadside and ineffective.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Lh
How this case has been treated — in progress
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