State v. Robinson

EXUM, Chief Justice.

Defendant brings forward several assignments of error and contends he is entitled to a new trial or, alternatively, a new sentencing proceeding. We hold defendant’s trial was free from reversible error but that the decision in McKoy v. North Carolina, 494 U.S. ---, 108 L. Ed. 2d 369 (1990), entitles him to a new sentencing proceeding.

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Defendant was indicted on 31 May 1984 for the first degree murders of James Elwell Worley, his wife Shelia Denise Worley and her daughter Psoma Wine Baggett. He was tried capitally in the Superior Court, Bladen County, in October 1984 and was…