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STATE v. HUGHES

No. 25003.

336 S.C. 585 (1999)

521 S.E.2d 500

The STATE, Respondent, v. Mar-Reece Aldean HUGHES, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided October 4, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen D. Schusterman, of Rock Hill; and Christina Chadwick Brice, of York, for appellant.

Attorney General Charles M. Condon, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, Assistant Attorney General Robert F. Daley, Jr., all of Columbia; and Solicitor Thomas E. Pope, of York, for respondent.

MOORE, Justice:

Appellant was sentenced to death for the murder of Officer Brent McCants who was killed during a routine traffic stop. We affirm.

FACTS

On September 25, 1992, appellant and Eric Forney, armed with a gun, accosted two college students in the parking lot of a restaurant in Charlotte, North Carolina, and stole their car. The two men then drove to Rock Hill where Officer McCants stopped them for driving without headlights. McCants was...

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