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First female (North Carolina Supreme Court): Susie Sharp (1928) in 1962 [11] [12] First female (Chief Justice; North Carolina Supreme Court): Susie Sharp (1928) in 1975 [11] [12] First female (Twenty-Second Judicial District): Kimberly S. Taylor (1977) in 1986 [14] First African American female (superior court): Shirley L. Fulton in 1989 [15]
The Superior Court Division, alongside the Appellate Division, and the District Court Division, make up North Carolina's unified court system, the General Court of Justice. [9] The Superior Court is the trial court of general jurisdiction in the state. [10] [11] In criminal matters, superior courts hear all felony cases and handle appeals of ...
To begin the process, North Carolina General Statute § 9-1 requires that (no later than July 1, 1967), each county shall appoint a jury commission of three members. [3] One member of the commission shall be appointed by the senior regular resident superior court judge, one member by the clerk of superior court, and one member by the board of county commissioners.
The parents of a 12-year-old boy left in a comatose state after suffering brain damage have failed to persuade the Supreme Court to intervene in a life-support treatment battle.
The General Quarter Sessions, for the county of Durham, were held in the Court House, on the Monday in each week, appointed by statute, to inquire into "all manner of felonies, poisonings, sorceries, trespasses, &c." Sessions weeks were the first week after Epiphany, the first week after the close of Easter, the first whole week after St. Thomas a Becket, and the first whole week after 11 October.
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The city of Durham paid retired police Capt. Darrell Dowdy $350,000 to settle a lawsuit that accused city officials of abandoning him after losing a lawsuit linked to wrongful murder convictions.
As to practice and proceedings in the Court of Pleas in Durham, see the act 2 & 3 Vict. c. 16 [13] (sometimes called Court of Pleas of Durham Act 1839), [14] the Common Law Procedure Act 1852 (15 & 16 Vict. c. 76), section 100 of the Common Law Procedure Act 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 125), and the Common Law Procedure Act 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c ...