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7 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 31 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from State v. Alston.

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1 State v. Alston Anchor
nc · 1983
green “an appellate court is not required to, and should not, assume error by the trial judge when none appears on the record before the appellate court.” 6
2 State v. Headen
ncctapp · 2010
green “to allow for appellate review, the trial court must make specific findings of fact at each stage of the batson inquiry that it reaches.” 5
3 State v. Cofield
· 1998
green “must uphold the trial court's findings unless they are clearly erroneous.” 4
4 State v. Headen
ncctapp · 2010
green “found only that there was not a prima facie showing made to establish any violations by the state for its exercise of peremptory challenges.” 4
5 State v. Headen
ncctapp · 2010
green “specific findings of fact at each stage of the batson inquiry that it reaches.” 4
6 State v. Sanders
ncctapp · 1989
green “at this point, the court does not find that the state's exercise of peremptory challenges has even reached the very low hurdle for making a prima facie claim yet. . . . the court has found at this point there's not a prima facie showing, and the court will deny the batson challe…” 4
7 State v. Sanders
ncctapp · 1989
green “only on the information adduced at the batson inquiry.” 4

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