85 N.C. App. 319 - State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
November 2009
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Odom · State v. Walker · State v. Joyner · State v. Brown · State v. Dammons
Most-quoted passages
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“[The] [defendant's assault of Mr. Nicoll in order to take [Mr. Nicoll’s] property spoke louder than any words of threat could have spoken to Mrs. Nicoll. Mrs. Nicoll was aware of [the] defendant’s taking her purse from her arm; she did not resist. She had been standing about a foot from [Mr. Nicoll] during [the] defendant’s assault upon [Mr. Nicoll]. While standing there, [Mrs. Nicoll] had seen [the] defendant reach for [Mr. Nicoll’s] notebook[,] then knock [Mr. Nicoll] to the ground. [Mrs. Nicoll] had then seen [the] defendant take [Mr. Nicoll’s] watch and wallet. It is clear from this evidence that [the] defendant made a threat to Mrs. Nicoll’s life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any person or persons who, having in possession or with the use or threatened use of any firearms or other dangerous weapon, implement or means, whereby the life of a person is endangered or threatened, unlawfully takes or attempts to take personal property from another or from any place of business, residence or banking institution or any other place where there is a person or persons in attendance, at any time, either day or night, or who aids or abets any such person or persons in the commission of such crime, shall be guilty of a Class D felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The mere possession of a [dangerous weapon] during the course of taking property is not a violation of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-87 (a); the [dangerous weapon] must be used to endanger or threaten the life of a person as that element is the essence of armed robbery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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