NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1117

HOUSE BILL 1373

 

 

AN ACT TO REQUIRE ANY COUNSEL OF RECORD IN A CRIMINAL CASE WHO HAS MADE A GENERAL ENTRY IN THE CASE TO CONTINUE TO SERVE UNTIL RELEASED BY THE COURT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 15A-143 is rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 15A-143.  Attorney making general entry obligated to represent defendant at all subsequent stages. An attorney who enters a criminal proceeding without limiting the extent of his representation pursuant to G.S. 15A-141(3) undertakes to represent the defendant for whom the entry is made at all subsequent stages of the case until entry of final judgment, at the trial stage. An attorney who appears for a limited purpose under the provisions of G.S. 15A‑141(3) undertakes to represent the defendant only for that purpose and is deemed to have withdrawn from the proceedings, without the need for permission of the court, when that purpose is fulfilled."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1977.