STATE v. ZUNIGA

No. 156A85-3.

498 S.E.2d 611 (1998)

348 N.C. 214

STATE of North Carolina v. Bernardino ZUNIGA.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 8, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Easley, Attorney General by Barry S. McNeill, Special Deputy Attorney General, Raleigh, for the State.

Ann B. Petersen, Chapel Hill, for defendant-appellant.


WEBB, Justice.

The defendant assigns error to the court's failure to submit the (f)(7) mitigator, "The age of the defendant at the time of the crime." N.C.G.S. § 15A-2000(f)(7). The court was required to submit to the jury any statutory mitigating circumstances which the evidence would support regardless of whether the defendant objects to it or requests it. State v. Lloyd, 321 N.C. 301, 312, 364 S.E.2d...

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