STATE v. MASON

No. COA02-1115.

583 S.E.2d 410 (2003)

STATE of North Carolina v. Christopher O'Brian MASON.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

August 5, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin L. West, III, PLLC, by Heather Wells, Wilmington, for defendant-appellant.

Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Assistant Attorney General Steven F. Bryant, for State-appellee.


WYNN, Judge.

From a sentence of life imprisonment without parole for first degree murder, first degree burglary, and robbery with a firearm, defendant, Christopher O'Brian Mason, argues on appeal that (1) he was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel because during oral argument, his attorney committed a lapsus linguae—a slip of the tongue—by asking the jury to find him guilty, (2) the trial erroneously denied...

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