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WAKE COUNTY EX REL. CARRINGTON v. TOWNES

No. 8010DC1024.

281 S.E.2d 765 (1981)

WAKE COUNTY, ex rel. Evelyn CARRINGTON v. Daniel TOWNES.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

September 15, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

East Central Community Legal Services by Gregory C. Malhoit and M. Travis Payne, Raleigh, for defendant-appellant.

North Carolina Civil Liberties Union by Stanley Sprague, Greensboro, amicus curiae brief for defendant-appellant.

Wake County Atty. by Shelley T. Eason, Raleigh, for plaintiff-appellee.

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Asst. Atty. Gen. Henry H. Burgwyn and Associate Atty. Gen. Clifton H. Duke, Raleigh, amicus curiae brief for plaintiff-appellee.

BECTON, Judge.

The sole issue in this appeal is one of first impression in North Carolina: whether an indigent defendant in a paternity suit instituted by the State has a constitutional due process right to court-appointed legal counsel. Based on the Fourteenth Amendment due process requirements of the United States Constitution, and on the Law of the Land provision in Article I, Section 19 of the North Carolina Constitution,1 we...

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