Legal Opinion
State v. Phillips
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided June 16, 2011No. 48A08PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDMUNDS, Justice.
In the early morning hours of 19 December 2003, Fayetteville police notified defendant that his brother had been shot. Defendant, who had been drinking heavily in addition to using marijuana and Ecstasy the night before, apparently assumed his brother was dead and continued to consume alcohol and drugs after hearing the news. Later that morning, defendant, his girlfriend Renee McLaughlin (McLaughlin), and his friend Sean Ray (Ray) drove to Moore County to tell defendant’s mother about the shooting. Afterwards, they visited Daryl Hobson (Hobson) at the Carolina Lakes Trailer…
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