STATE v. DANIEL

No. 85A85.

354 S.E.2d 216 (1987)

319 N.C. 308

STATE of North Carolina v. Rochelle DANIEL.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 7, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by Steven Mansfield Shaber and Catherine C. McLamb, Asst. Attys. Gen., Raleigh, for the state.

J. Robert Hufstader, Public Defender, Asheville, for defendant-appellant.


EXUM, Chief Justice.

Defendant pled guilty to murdering her newborn child. The sentence imposed, life imprisonment, is in excess of the presumptive sentence for second degree murder, which is fifteen years' imprisonment. N.C. G.S. §§ 15A-1340.4(f) (1983), 14-17 (1986). The first question presented is whether the trial court erred in finding as aggravating factors that the victim was very young and that defendant took advantage of a position of trust or confidence...

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