STATE v. LEWIS

No. 386PA10.

724 S.E.2d 492 (2012)

STATE of North Carolina v. Paul Brantley LEWIS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 13, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Cooper , Attorney General, by Robert C. Montgomery , Special Deputy Attorney General, and Anne M. Middleton , Assistant Attorney General, for the State-appellant.

Staples S. Hughes , Appellate Defender, by Benjamin Dowling-Sendor , Assistant Appellate Defender, for defendant-appellee.


EDMUNDS, Justice.

In this case, we consider whether defendant Paul Brantley Lewis ("defendant") was properly denied the opportunity at his retrial to examine the State's lead investigator about the investigator's possible bias and about instances of purported misconduct by the investigator during defendant's first trial. We agree with the holding of the Court of Appeals that the retrial court erred in limiting defendant's ability to explore these matters before the...

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