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STATE v. ROSE

No. 54A88.

373 S.E.2d 426 (1988)

323 N.C. 455

STATE of North Carolina v. Melvin Claude ROSE, Jr.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 3, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by Isham B. Hudson, Sr. Deputy Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Malcolm Ray Hunter, Jr., Appellate Defender by Mark D. Montgomery, Asst. Appellate Defender, Raleigh, for defendant-appellant.

MEYER, Justice.

Defendant was indicted on two counts of murder for the shooting deaths of his cousin, Danny Ray Bateman, and Bateman's girlfriend, Jill Alexander. The cases were joined and tried as capital cases. The jury convicted defendant of first-degree murder for the shooting of Danny Bateman, for which it recommended a life sentence, and of second-degree murder for the shooting of Jill Alexander, for which the trial court imposed a fifty-year consecutive sentence...

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