The North Carolina Structured Sentencing Act provides that the "same item of evidence" cannot be used to prove more than one aggravating factor. N.C.G.S. § 15A-1340.16(d) (2003). The question presented by this case is whether the phrase "same item of evidence," refers to a single source document or a particular fact derived therefrom. We hold the phrase restricts the use of the same facts, not the same...
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