Among its latest batch of opinions released this morning, the N.C. Court of Appeals:
- affirmed in a unanimous three-judge opinion a lower-court ruling favoring Fifth Third Bank in a dispute over loans tied to a real-estate development scam in Mitchell County known as the Village of Penland.
- reversed and remanded a Wake County case involving Islamic law, marriage, and bigamy. In a split 2-1 decision, appellate judges ruled that a woman’s failure to “void” an Islamic marriage through legal channels in 1997 meant that her second marriage later that year was void because of bigamy.
- affirmed a first-degree murder conviction in a 2003 Robeson County case. The three-judge appellate panel agreed that the trial court did not err in admitting expert testimony regarding forensic firearm identification and evidence regarding defendant Myron Keith Britt’s financial hardships and previous misconduct.
