Emily Jean Robinson, 45, formerly of Snow Camp has lost her appeal in her 2024 drug conviction, based on a unanimous opinion issued Wednesday by a three-member panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
Robinson, who is the daughter of Alamance County’s sheriff, had appealed her convictions of possession with intent to sell or deliver a controlled substance (Fentanyl), maintain a dwelling to keep a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia on grounds that a special superior court judge who presided over her trial in May 2024 had unfairly prejudiced the outcome by refusing to let her defense attorneys make two opening and closing arguments, the case background states.
Robinson had pleaded not guilty to the charges at the outset of her trial in Alamance County superior court…