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STATE v. GODWIN

No. 167PA16.

800 S.E.2d 47 (2017)

STATE of North Carolina v. William Edward GODWIN III.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Filed June 9, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua H. Stein , Attorney General, by Kristin J. Uicker , Assistant Attorney General, for the State-appellant/appellee.

Rudolf Widenhouse , Chapel Hill, by M. Gordon Widenhouse, Jr. , for defendant-appellant/appellee.

In this appeal we consider whether North Carolina Rule of Evidence 702(a1) requires a law enforcement officer to be recognized explicitly as an expert witness pursuant to Rule 702(a) before he may testify to the results of a Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN) test. Because we conclude that such explicit recognition is not required...

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