255 N.C. App. 665 - State v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “Q. So you were continuing to question [defendant] about an incident that you had already released one of the parties to? A. That's correct. Q. And you, at that point, had no evidence of any criminal activity that you were able to objectively point to. Correct? A. No. That's why I was continuing to investigate. Q. So you were looking to see if you could find anything, but you hadn't yet seen anything? A. That's correct. I wanted to make sure that both your client and also the alleged victim were safe and that nothing had happened to either one of them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Nicholson

2. “in light of the fact Lt. Marotz already questioned both Defendant and Chavis twice and subsequently released Chavis so he could go to work after he assessed the situation and concluded '[i]t was a heated argument between two brothers.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Nicholson

3. “Well, your brother here in the driver's seat is shaking his head. He's telling me everything's not fine. Is everything fine or not? Is everything good?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Nicholson