Legal Opinion
State v. McRae
Court of Appeals of North Carolina
Decided August 1, 2000No. COA99-637PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEWIS, Judge.
On 18 March 1996, defendant was indicted for first-degree murder in violation of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-17. Defendant was tried at the 27 April 1998 session of Richmond County Superior Court on the first-degree murder charge. A deadlocked jury resulted in a mistrial on 1 May 1998. At retrial on 14 May 1998, the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
At approximately 3 a.m. on 14 October 1995, the body of the victim, Jerry Rankin, was discovered on the back porch of Allen Davis’s residence. Rankin had been shot in the head by a…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Pate v. RobinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Drope v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Riggins v. NevadaSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- State v. YoungSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1977
- United States v. Jazz Haywood, Jazz Haywood A/K/A Torrie GrahamCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1998
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3Cited by24 opinions
- State v. WereOhio Supreme Court · 2002
- State v. StatenCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2005
- State v. McRaeCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2004
- State v. WhittedCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2011
- State v. ChukwuCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2013
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