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STATE v. McLAUGHLIN

No. 637A84.

372 S.E.2d 49 (1988)

323 N.C. 68

STATE of North Carolina v. Elton Ozell McLAUGHLIN.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

September 7, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen., Elizabeth G. McCrodden, Associate Atty. Gen., Joan H. Byers, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., James J. Coman, Sr. Deputy Atty. Gen., and William N. Farrell, Jr., Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

T. Craig Wright, Michael W. Willis, Malcolm Ray Hunter, Jr., Appellate Defender, Whiteville, and Louis D. Bilionis, Asst. Appellate Defender, Raleigh, for defendant-appellant.

E. Ann Christian and Robert E. Zaytoun, Raleigh, for North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, and John A. Dusenbury, Jr., Asheville, for North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers, amicus curiae.

MEYER, Justice.

These three cases arise from a contract murder which spawned two further murders committed in an effort to eliminate witnesses and evade justice.

James Elwell Worley was killed on 26 March 1984. Little more than a month later, on 29 April 1984, his wife, Shelia Denise Worley, and her daughter, Psoma Wine Baggett, were killed. The State's evidence tended to show the following events. Sometime before...

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