Appeals Court restores defendant’s felon firearm possession charge

Appeals Court restores defendant’s felon firearm possession charge

The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled that a trial judge was wrong in 2024 to dismiss a charge of possession of a firearm by a felon in a Forsyth County case. The defendant had challenged the charge as unconstitutional based on recent US Supreme Court rulings in gun-rights cases. Winston-Salem police stopped Darius Lamar Williams in 2023 because of an expired vehicle registration, according to the Appeals Court opinion. Searching the veh…