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STATE v. TUCKER

No. 332A89.

414 S.E.2d 548 (1992)

331 N.C. 12

STATE of North Carolina v. Kenneth Lee TUCKER and Hoyle Eugene WRAY.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 5, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen., by David F. Hoke, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Malcolm Ray Hunter, Jr., Appellate Defender, by Constance H. Everhart, Asst. Appellate Defender, Raleigh, for defendant appellant Tucker.

Charles T. Browne, Asheboro, and C. Richard Tate, Jr., High Point, for defendant appellant Wray.

WHICHARD, Justice.

Defendants were convicted of the first-degree murder of Brenda Cecil. Their cases were consolidated for trial over the objections of both defendants. The joinder raised perceived Bruton problems because defendant Tucker had made several inconsistent, pretrial statements. After lengthy debate, the State acknowledged that it could not properly "sanitize" certain statements by defendant Tucker and announced that it would not offer them. The...

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