Legal Opinion
State v. Bonner
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided January 10, 1992No. 83A91, 85A91PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WHICHARD, Justice.
On 29 May 1990, defendants undertook, along with Gregory Gainey and El’Ricko Stewart, to rob the Steamboat Restaurant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In an attempt to thwart the robbery, Dallas Pruitt, an off-duty police officer acting as a security guard for the restaurant, shot and killed Gainey and Stewart. Following indictment, defendants pled guilty to, among other charges, two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of their coconspirators.
The issue is not whether these defendants may escape altogether criminal liability for their participation in the events of…
2Cases cited30 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. RedlineSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1958
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