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7 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 29 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. Campbell.

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1 State v. Campbell Anchor
nc · 2016
green “a valid bill of indictment is essential to the jurisdiction of the trial court to try an accused for a felony.” 5
2 State v. Cozart
ncctapp · 2018
green “harsh . . . result of . . . a defendant being deprived of relief from a potentially unconstitutional order.” 4
3 State v. Gonzalez
ncctapp · 2019
green “creation of two lines of irreconcilable precedent.” 4
4 State v. Gonzalez
ncctapp · 2019
green “our supreme court's decision in hilton concluded that for aggravated offenders, such as defendant, the imposition of lifetime sbm causes only a limited intrusion into a diminished privacy expectation,” 4
5 State v. Campbell
nc · 2016
green “a defendant can challenge the facial validity of an indictment at any time,” 4
6 State v. Campbell
nc · 2016
green “an indictment must allege all the essential elements of the offense . . . , but an indictment couched in the language of the statute is generally sufficient.” 4
7 State v. Singleton
ncctapp · 2010
green “the sbm determination hearing has no effect whatsoever upon the defendant's prior criminal convictions or sentencing and is not a part of any 'criminal proceedings' or 'criminal prosecution' of the defendant.” 4

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