STATE v. SARGEANT

No. COA09-262.

696 S.E.2d 786 (2010)

STATE of North Carolina v. Neil Matthew SARGEANT, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

August 3, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Assistant Attorney General John G. Barnwell, for the State.

Appellate Defender Staples Hughes, by Assistant Appellate Defender Benjamin Dowling Sendor, for defendant-appellant.


GEER, Judge.

Defendant Neil Matthew Sargeant appeals his convictions for first degree murder, first degree kidnapping, robbery with a dangerous weapon, and burning of personal property. The primary issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred in taking partial "verdicts" from the jury.

At trial, at the end of the first day of deliberation, the jury had not reached a unanimous decision as to each of the charges. The trial court requested that the jury go...

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