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  "name": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. DULAINE LOTHARP",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Lotharp",
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      "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. DULAINE LOTHARP"
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    "opinions": [
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        "text": "PER CURIAM.\nThe decision of the Court of Appeals is reversed for the reasons stated in the dissenting opinion.\nREVERSED.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "PER CURIAM."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Robert M. Curran, Assistant Attorney General, for the State-appellant.",
      "Marjorie S. Canaday for defendant-appellee.",
      "Smith Moore LLP, by Julia F. Youngman, on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation, amicus curiae."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. DULAINE LOTHARP\nNo. 106A02\n(Filed 22 November 2002)\nAssault\u2014 deadly weapon \u2014 disjunctive instruction\nThe Court of Appeals decision granting defendant a new trial on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury is reversed for the reason stated in the dissenting opinion that defendant was not denied a unanimous verdict by the trial court\u2019s instruction permitting the jury to return a guilty verdict if it found beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant intentionally beat the victim with his hands and feet and/or with a chain and that defendant\u2019s hands and feet and/or the chain were deadly weapons that inflicted serious injury.\nAppeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. \u00a7 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, 148 N.C. App. 435, 559 S.E.2d 807 (2002), ordering a new trial after appeal from judgments entered 26 May 2000 by Beale, J., in Superior Court, Union County. Heard in the Supreme Court 14 October 2002.\nRoy Cooper, Attorney General, by Robert M. Curran, Assistant Attorney General, for the State-appellant.\nMarjorie S. Canaday for defendant-appellee.\nSmith Moore LLP, by Julia F. Youngman, on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation, amicus curiae."
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