STATE v. QUICK

No. 18A92.

446 S.E.2d 535 (1994)

337 N.C. 359

STATE of North Carolina v. Harold Vernard QUICK.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

July 29, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Easley, Atty. Gen. by Steven F. Bryant, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., for the State.

Thomas K. Maher, Chapel Hill, for defendant-appellant.


EXUM, Chief Justice.

This appeal presents questions regarding the mitigating circumstance that defendant has no significant history of prior criminal activity, N.C.G.S. § 15A-2000(f)(1) (1988), and whether the State improperly offered evidence of defendant's silence during a pretrial interrogation. Concluding there was reversible error in failing to submit the mitigating circumstance and at least error in offering evidence of defendant's silence, we vacate the...

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