STATE v. McGRADY

No. 72PA14.

787 S.E.2d 1 (2016)

368 N.C. 880

STATE of North Carolina v. Charles Anthony McGRADY.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Filed June 10, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Cooper , Attorney General, by Gary R. Govert , Assistant Solicitor General, and Robert C. Montgomery , Senior Deputy Attorney General, for the State.

M. Gordon Widenhouse Jr. , Chapel Hill, for defendant-appellant.

Zaytoun Law Firm, PLLC, Raleigh, by Matthew D. Ballew ; Robert P. Mosteller , UNC Chapel Hill School of Law, Chapel Hill; Donald H. Beskind , Duke University School of Law, Durham; Patterson Harkavy LLP, Raleigh, by Burton Craige ; and Office of the Appellate Defender, by John F. Carella , Assistant Appellate Defender, for North Carolina Advocates for Justice, amicus curiae.

McGuinness Law Firm, Elizabethtown, by J. Michael McGuinness , Elizabethtown, for National Association of Police Organizations, Southern States Police Benevolent Association, and North Carolina Police Benevolent Association, amici curiae.


This appeal arises from defendant Charles Anthony McGrady's first-degree murder conviction for the shooting death of his cousin James Allen Shore Jr. Defendant admitted to shooting Mr. Shore. The central issue at trial was whether defendant shot and killed Mr. Shore in lawful defense of himself and his adult son Brandon McGrady...

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