STATE v. DEAN

No. COA08-344.

674 S.E.2d 453 (2009)

STATE of North Carolina v. Tyrone Lamont DEAN.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 7, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Appellate Defender Staples Hughes, by Assistant Appellate Defender Daniel R. Pollitt, for Defendant.


STEPHENS, Judge.

The facts of this case are easily stated but hardly understood. Around 2:00 a.m. on 6 May 2004, twenty-two-year-old Reginald Johnson was outside an apartment complex on Weaver Street in Durham, where he lived with his mother. Nineteen-year-old Tyrone Lamont Dean ("Defendant") and five other men, all of whom were members of the "Eight-Trey Crips" gang, were outside the apartment complex selling cocaine. The men mistook Reginald Johnson for a leader...

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