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Ronald Preston Harper v. North Carolina
Paid petition · Court of Appeals of North Carolina, No. COA21-752 · judgment September 20, 2022
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Is it illegal to criticize police in North Carolina? Do citizens, using their God-given rights of life, liberty and pursuing their happiness, have the right to expect that police will respect those rights and not expect them to immediately kowtow? If police are given the "objective reasonableness" standard, shouldn't citizens, when confronted with gun carrying “public servants”, be given grace as they move from being free to being detained? Especially as it related to the growing false accusations of “swatting”?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Ronald Preston Harper
For respondent
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Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Oct 16 2023Petition DENIED.
- Sep 27 2023DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/13/2023.
- Jun 07 2023Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 15, 2023)