Legal Opinion
Desmond Keith Carter v. R.C. Lee, Warden, Central Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 11, 2002No. 01-19PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Certificate of appealability denied and appeal dismissed by published opinion. Judge KING wrote the opinion, in which Judge MOTZ and Judge GREGORY joined.
OPINION
KING, Circuit Judge.
In 1993, Desmond Keith Carter was convicted by a state court jury in Rockingham County, North Carolina, of the separate crimes of capital murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon. The jury recommended that Carter be sentenced to death on the murder offense, and the judge imposed the death penalty, plus a consecutive term of forty years’ imprisonment for the robbery. After an unavailing direct appeal process,…
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- State v. McCollumSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1993
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