STATE v. TROGDON

No. COA10-1344.

715 S.E.2d 635 (2011)

STATE of North Carolina v. Alex Jerome TROGDON, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

September 20, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorney General Roy Cooper , by Assistant Attorney General Sandra Wallace-Smith , for the State.

Glenn Gerding , Chapel Hill, for defendant-appellant.


GEER, Judge.

Defendant Alex Jerome Trogdon appeals from his conviction of second degree murder of his girlfriend's 16-month-old son. He primarily contends on appeal that the trial court committed plain error by admitting expert testimony, a death certificate, and an autopsy report that the cause of the child's death was "homicide." Our review of the record indicates, however, that the expert witnesses and the exhibits did not use the word "homicide" as a legal term...

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