STATE v. JACOBS

No. 126PA17.

811 S.E.2d 579 (2018)

STATE of North Carolina v. John Owen JACOBS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Filed April 6, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua H. Stein , Attorney General, by Elizabeth J. Weese , Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Paul F. Herzog , Fayetteville, for defendant-appellant.

Anne Bleyman and North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, Inc., by Christopher J. Heaney , for North Carolina Advocates for Justice, amicus curiae.


In this case we consider whether the exception outlined in North Carolina Rule of Evidence 412(b)(2) applies to evidence of the complainant's history of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) such that the trial court erred in excluding that evidence pursuant to Rule 412 when other evidence showed that defendant was not infected...

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