Legal Opinion
State v. Strickland
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided January 11, 1983No. 32PA82PublishedCited by 168 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEYER, Justice.
Defendant first assigns as error the trial court’s failure to instruct the jury on a charge of second degree murder. He quotes the following language appearing in our opinion of State v. Harris, 290 N.C. 718, 730, 228 S.E. 2d 424, 432 (1976):
[I]n all cases in which the State relies upon premeditation and deliberation to support a conviction of murder in the first degree, the trial court must submit to the jury an issue of murder in the second degree.
It is defendant’s contention that the rule enunciated in Harris merely reaffirmed our prior ruling in State v. Perry, 209 N.C.…
2Cases cited54 opinions
- Harris v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Patterson v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Beck v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Roberts v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Hopper v. EvansSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
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3Cited by168 opinions
- State v. YoungSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1985
- State v. RoseSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1994
- State v. OliverSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1983
- State v. BrownSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1987
- State v. CollinsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1993
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