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Rashawn Lesley Grant v. North Carolina
IFP petition · Court of Appeals of North Carolina, No. 24-26 · judgment December 3, 2024
Question presented
Whether the State of North Carolina’s conviction of Petitioner Grant for murder and the resulting life sentence violated the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution where (a) the trial record was utterly devoid of any evidence of guilt save for the presence of Grant’s cell phone at the site of a chaotic shootout involving many individuals, and (b) the only eyewitness testimony from the scene of the shooting exonerated Grant?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Sharon L. Smith
Sharon L. Smith Law Office, P.A.
For respondent
Sherri Horner Lawrence
North Carolina Department of Justice
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Jan 12 2026Petition DENIED.
- Dec 04 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/9/2026.
- Dec 02 2025Waiver of right of respondent State of North Carolina to respond filed.
- Nov 18 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 22, 2025)