STATE v. THOMPSON

No. 80PA98.

508 S.E.2d 277 (1998)

STATE of North Carolina v. Ronnie THOMPSON.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 31, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Easley, Attorney General by Teresa L. Harris, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Office of the Public Defender by Russell J. Hollers III, Assistant Public Defender, Durham, for defendant-appellant.

The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation by Mebane Rash Whitman, Raleigh, amicus curiae.


WHICHARD, Justice.

The issue is whether N.C.G.S. § 15A-534.1(b), regarding the bail and pretrial release of individuals accused of having committed crimes of domestic violence, is unconstitutional, on its face or as applied, under the Due Process and Double Jeopardy Clauses of the United States Constitution. We conclude that the statute, as applied to defendant under the discrete facts presented, deprived him of his federal constitutional right to procedural...

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