N.C. Supreme Court arguments as a spectator sport
Article excerpt: "More interesting to many is the question how the Supreme Court will look at the Court of Appeals decision, which was delivered by three Republican judges, all of them regarded as conservative jurists but who ruled in the inmate's favor. The judges were then-Judge Doug McCullough (unseated in the last election), Judge Ann Marie Calabria and Judge John Tyson, who now serves as an Emergency Recall Judge."