Legal Opinion
State v. Holden
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided July 24, 1997No. 460A91-2PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, Justice.
Defendant was indicted on 1 July 1985 for one count of murder and one count of first-degree rape. In August 1985 he was tried capitally and found guilty of first-degree murder and attempted rape. The conviction for first-degree murder was based on both premeditation and deliberation and felony-murder. He was sentenced to death for the murder and to twenty years’ imprisonment for the attempted rape. We found no error in the trial and sentences in State v. Holden, 321 N.C. 125, 362 S.E.2d 513 (1987) (Holden I), cert. denied, 486 U.S. 1061, 100 L. Ed. 2d 935 (1988).
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