Legal Opinion
State v. Roper
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided April 3, 1991No. 301A88PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEYER, Justice.
In the early morning hours of 24 June 1987, after a heated confrontation with Ned Rader at Rader’s mobile home near Morgan-ton, defendant followed Rader after he left the mobile home. Rader stopped his truck, and defendant pulled his car alongside Rader. Words were exchanged between the occupants of the two parked vehicles; then defendant killed Rader with a single gunshot to the head from a nine-millimeter pistol. After killing Rader, defendant forcibly abducted the female passenger in Rader’s truck. She was taken to a wooded area near defendant’s home and raped. A jury found…
2Cases cited87 opinions
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- Bourjaily v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
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3Cited by90 opinions
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