State v. Bean

ELMORE, Judge.

Tamara McDaniel Bean (defendant) appeals from a judgment entered upon a jury conviction of first-degree murder, sentencing her to life imprisonment without parole. This court initially heard the appeal on 14 November 2012, and we concluded that defendant received a trial *336free from prejudicial error.1 Our Supreme Court then granted defendant’s petition for discretionary review for the limited purpose of remanding the case to this Court for reconsideration of 1) the instruction and evidentiary issues in light of both State v. Lawrence, 365 N.C. 506, 723 S.E.2d 326 (2012) and the…