State v. Borkar

HUNTER, Judge.

Hemant Raghunath Borkar (“defendant”) appeals from a judgment dated 3 September 2003 entered consistent with a jury verdict finding him guilty of solicitation of murder, stalking, and carrying a concealed weapon. As we find prejudicial error in the trial court’s failure to provide a limiting instruction, we reverse and remand for a new trial. . -

The evidence tends to show that defendant met Tabitha Zimmerman (“Tabitha”) in 1998 when both were first-year students at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine (“Medical School”). Defendant and Tabitha initially had a…