{
  "id": 8560792,
  "name": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. THOMAS LANEAU CLARK",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Clark",
  "decision_date": "1982-11-03",
  "docket_number": "No. 323A82",
  "first_page": "120",
  "last_page": "121",
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      "cite": "307 N.C. 120"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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    "parties": [
      "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. THOMAS LANEAU CLARK"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "PER CURIAM.\nAfter reviewing the transcript and record in this case we find that there was insufficient evidence to submit to the jury the issue of defendant\u2019s guilt under G.S. 14-27.4. For this reason the judgment of the Superior Court is reversed and the charge against defendant dismissed.\nIn addition to the record on appeal, defendant has filed a motion for appropriate relief pursuant to G.S. 15A-1415, G.S. 15A-1417 and G.S. 15A-1418. The heart of this motion is the defendant\u2019s contention that he was denied effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution.\nIn light of our decision in the defendant\u2019s previous assignment of error, we dismiss the defendant\u2019s motion for appropriate relief.\nThe decision of the Superior Court is reversed and the charge against the defendant dismissed. Defendant\u2019s motion for appropriate relief is dismissed.\nReversed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "PER CURIAM."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney General Rufus L. Edmisten by Assistant Attorney General Donald W. Grimes, for the State.",
      "Appellate Defender Adam Stein by Assistant Appellate Defender Malcolm R. Hunter, Jr., for defendant-appellant."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. THOMAS LANEAU CLARK\nNo. 323A82\n(Filed 3 November 1982)\nRape and Allied Offenses \u00a7 5\u2014 first degree sexual offense \u2014 insufficient evidence\nThe State\u2019s evidence was insufficient to be submitted to the jury on the issue of defendant\u2019s guilt under G.S. 14-27.4 of a first degree sexual offense with an eight-year-old boy.\nAPPEAL by defendant pursuant to G.S. 7A-27(a) from Collier, J., at the 1 February 1982 Criminal Session of DAVIDSON County Superior Court.\nUpon a plea of not guilty, defendant was tried on a bill of indictment charging that on or about April 1980, with force and arms, Thomas Laneau Clark did unlawfully and feloniously commit sodomy with one Jerry Dean Garris, Jr., an eight year old boy at the time of the alleged crime, who was more than four years younger than the defendant.\nAttorney General Rufus L. Edmisten by Assistant Attorney General Donald W. Grimes, for the State.\nAppellate Defender Adam Stein by Assistant Appellate Defender Malcolm R. Hunter, Jr., for defendant-appellant."
  },
  "file_name": "0120-01",
  "first_page_order": 148,
  "last_page_order": 149
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