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The Court of Appeals was created by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1967 after voters approved a constitutional amendment in 1965 which "authorized the creation of an intermediate court of appeals to relieve pressure on the North Carolina Supreme Court." [2] Judges serve eight-year terms and are elected in statewide elections.
Generally speaking the appellate court examines the record of evidence presented in the trial court and the law that the lower court applied and decides whether that decision was legally sound or not. The appellate court will typically be deferential to the lower court's findings of fact (such as whether a defendant committed a particular act ...
Wynn grew up in the Eastern North Carolina community of Robersonville, one of eight children.His family operated a farm on which he worked during his childhood. He holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Bachelor of Arts, Journalism, 1975); Marquette University Law School (Juris Doctor, 1979); and the University of Virginia School of Law (Master of Laws, Judicial ...
Profession: North Carolina court of appeals judge since 2015 when she was appointed by Gov. Pat McCrory and later elected by North Carolinians in 2016, previously a private practice attorney and ...
Get to know the candidates for North Carolina’s judicial races with our voter guide. Candidate for NC Court of Appeals, Democrat Ed Eldred, answers our questions Skip to main content
As a judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals, I apply the law as written to every case before me, regardless of partisan divides. The NC Code of Judicial Conduct has not been updated since 2020.
The Supreme Court of the State of North Carolina is the state of North Carolina's highest appellate court. Until the creation of the North Carolina Court of Appeals in the 1960s, it was the state's only appellate court. The Supreme Court consists of six associate justices and one chief justice, although the number of justices has varied.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled against Union County parents who claimed a Charlotte private school expelled their children after they raised questions about an alleged move away from a ...