State v. Price

EXUM, Chief Justice.

Defendant, after being convicted of the first-degree murder of Brenda Smith, was sentenced to death. On defendant’s appeal this Court found no prejudicial error in either the guilt determination proceeding or the capital sentencing proceeding. State v. Price, 326 N.C. 56, 388 S.E.2d 84 (1990) (Price I).

On 1 October 1990 the Supreme Court of the United States vacated our judgment and remanded the case to us for further consideration in light of McKoy v. North Carolina, 494 U.S. 433, 108 L. Ed. 2d 369 (1990). Price v. North Carolina, --- U.S. ---, 112 L. Ed. 2d 7 (1990).

We…