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  "name": "IN THE MATTER OF TONY MERRITT",
  "name_abbreviation": "In re Merritt",
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      "IN THE MATTER OF TONY MERRITT"
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "PER CURIAM.\nDISCRETIONARY REVIEW IMPROVIDENTLY ALLOWED.",
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        "author": "PER CURIAM."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Roy A. Cooper, Attorney General, by Brent D. Kiziah, Assistant Attorney General, for petitioner-appellee State.",
      "S.C. Kitchen, County Attorney, and Curtis O. Massey II, Assistant County Attorney, for respondent-appellant Durham County.",
      "Stubbs, Cole, Breedlove, Prentis & Biggs, P.L.L.C., by Darin P. Meece, for respondent-appellee Tony Merritt, Sr.",
      "North Carolina Association of County Commissioners, by James B. Blackburn, III, General Counsel; and Jonathan V. Maxwell, Guilford County Attorney, and Mercedes O. Chut, Assistant Guilford County Attorney, on behalf of North Carolina Association of County Commissioners, amicus curiae."
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    "head_matter": "IN THE MATTER OF TONY MERRITT\nNo. 493PA00\n(Filed 4 May 2001)\nOn discretionary review pursuant to N.C.G.S. \u00a7 7A-31 of a unanimous, unpublished, per curiam decision of the Court of Appeals, 140 N.C. App. 151, 539 S.E.2d 58 (2000), dismissing Durham County\u2019s appeal from an order entered by O\u2019Neal, J., on 25 June 1999 in District Court, Durham County. Heard in the Supreme Court 17 April 2001.\nRoy A. Cooper, Attorney General, by Brent D. Kiziah, Assistant Attorney General, for petitioner-appellee State.\nS.C. Kitchen, County Attorney, and Curtis O. Massey II, Assistant County Attorney, for respondent-appellant Durham County.\nStubbs, Cole, Breedlove, Prentis & Biggs, P.L.L.C., by Darin P. Meece, for respondent-appellee Tony Merritt, Sr.\nNorth Carolina Association of County Commissioners, by James B. Blackburn, III, General Counsel; and Jonathan V. Maxwell, Guilford County Attorney, and Mercedes O. Chut, Assistant Guilford County Attorney, on behalf of North Carolina Association of County Commissioners, amicus curiae."
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