Attorney Phylicia Monee Powers's Legal Cases

Criminal defense

North Carolina v. T.M

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OUTCOME: Charge Dismissed

Our client was charged with First Degree Burglary for retrieving her personal property from her ex’s residence immediately following the break-up. Subsequent the arrest, the accuser admitted he involve ... d law enforcement out of spite. The accuser provided our office an Affidavit indicating the same. Upon review of the Affidavit, as well as the list of personal items take from the residence, the Assistant District Attorney declined to prosecute.

Criminal defense

North Carolina v. S.P

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OUTCOME: No Charges Filed

Accusation: - Indecent Liberties with a Minor (N.C.G.S. § 14-202.1) - Statutory Sex Offense (N.C.G.S. § 14-27.25) - Statutory Rape (N.C.G.S. § 14-27.30)-27 Our client’s wife accused him of sexu ... ally abusing his stepdaughter, but proposed not involving the police, if the client agreed to move out of the marital home and financially provide for her and her minor child until the child was 25. Our client vehemently denied the allegations. We suggested that, with counsel present, our client submit to a voluntary interview with the investigating detective. Upon review of the information provided during our client’s voluntary interview with the detective, as well as the alleged victim’s statements, the State of North Carolina declined to prosecute due to the vagueness of the allegations.

Criminal defense

North Carolina v. Z.M

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OUTCOME: No Charges Filed

Accusation: - First Degree Rape (N.C.G.S. § 14-27.2)-27 - First Degree Sex Offense (N.C.G.S. § 14-27.4(a)(1))-27 - Kidnapping (N.C.G.S. § 14-39)-27 A woman reached out to our client after seeing h ... im on the popular dating website, Tinder. Our client was invited to the woman’s home to spend the night and the pair engaged in consensual sex. Feeling jilted by unreturned phone calls after a one-night stand, law enforcement was contacted, and our client was accused and investigated for allegedly having engaged in nonsexual sex with the accuser. At our suggestion, our client submitted to a polygraph exam, which indicated our client’s assertion that the sex was consensual was non-deceptive. After consideration of our client’s voluntary interview with the detective, the polygraph results and texts messages shared between the two, the Assistant District Attorney declined to bring charges against our client.

Juvenile law

North Carolina v. S.C.

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OUTCOME: Case remained in Juvenile Court

Charge: First Degree Rape At seventeen years old, our client was charged in Juvenile Court with First Degree Rape for an allegation believed to have occurred two years prior. Not only, were we abl ... e to uncover that a rape did not in fact occur and the charges were reduced to Attempted Statutory Rape, but the case was retained in Juvenile Court versus the accused being prosecuted as an adult and being subject to adult consequences. Our client was ordered to complete one year of juvenile supervised sex offense treatment. Thus, our client has no adult record, was not required to register as a sex offender, and would be eligible eighteen months from the completion of his probation to have his record sealed.

Phylicia Monee Powers's Legal Cases (4)

North Carolina v. T.M

North Carolina v. S.P

North Carolina v. Z.M

North Carolina v. S.C.