State v. Brown

WAINWRIGHT, Justice.

On 14 April 1997, a Wayne County grand jury indicted Paul Anthony Brown (defendant) for the first-degree murder of Latashonette Cox and the first-degree murder of an infant, David Dishon Franklin. Defendant was tried capitally before a jury at the 30 March 1998 session of Superior Court, Wayne County. On 7 April 1998, the jury found defendant guilty of the premeditated, first.-degree murder of Latashonette Cox. On the same date, the jury found defendant guilty of the first-degree murder of David Franklin under the felony murder rule.

At the time of defendant’s trial,…