State v. Fullwood

FRYE, Justice.

Defendant, Michael Lee Fullwood, was convicted in 1985 of felonious breaking and entering and of the first-degree murder of Deidre Waters. He was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for the breaking and entering conviction and to death for the first-degree murder conviction. On defendant’s direct appeal, this Court found no error in the convictions and affirmed the sentences entered by the trial court. State v. Fullwood, 323 N.C. 371, 373 S.E.2d 518 (1988). Subsequently, the Supreme Court of the United States vacated defendant’s sentence of death for the murder of Deidre Waters…