State v. Holden

MARTIN, Justice.

Defendant entered a plea of guilty to the second-degree murder of her infant daughter. At the sentencing hearing the state summarized the evidence as follows:

On 6 August 1986, Deputy Kim Pierce of the Wake County Sheriffs Department responded to a call from a grocery store near Wake Forest. He met with defendant, aged seventeen, who reported that her three-month-old daughter, Dekavia, had been kidnapped. Defendant stated that she had been walking at a nearby pond with her two small children earlier that evening when she was approached by two men. These men snatched Dekavia…