STATE v. WHITE

No. 505A96.

508 S.E.2d 253 (1998)

STATE of North Carolina v. Melvin Lee WHITE, Jr.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 31, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Easley, Attorney General, by Ellen B. Scouten, Special Deputy Attorney General, for the State.

Marshall Dayan, Durham, for defendant-appellant.


PARKER, Justice.

Defendant was indicted on 18 July 1995 for two counts of first-degree murder and on 18 September 1995 for one count of first-degree burglary. Defendant was tried capitally in September of 1996 and found guilty of both counts of first-degree murder and of first-degree burglary. Following a capital-sentencing proceeding, the jury recommended a sentence of death for each of the murders; after consolidating the judgments, the trial court entered judgment...

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