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STATE v. PETERSILIE

No. 43PA92.

432 S.E.2d 832 (1993)

334 N.C. 169

STATE of North Carolina v. Frank W. PETERSILIE.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

July 30, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by Charles M. Hensey, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Chester E. Whittle, Jr., Boone, for defendant-appellee.

EXUM, Chief Justice.

The substantive issue before us is whether N.C.G.S. § 163-274(7), prohibiting anonymous, derogatory charges against candidates for primary or general elections, violates the free speech guarantees of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution or Article I, § 14 of the North Carolina Constitution, or both. Before reaching this constitutional issue, however, we must first dispose of a procedural question: whether the Court of...

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