Legal Opinion
Jones v. Keller
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided August 27, 2010No. 518PA09PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*251EDMUNDS, Justice.
In this case we determine whether petitioner Alford Jones is entitled to habeas corpus relief from incarceration on the grounds that he has accumulated various credits against his sentence. Because we conclude that he is lawfully incarcerated, we reverse the decision of the superior court.
The record indicates that Jones was charged with the 6 January 1975 murder of William B. Turner, Sr. Jones was convicted on 19 March 1975 in Superior Court, Lenoir County, and sentenced to death. In an opinion dated 17 June 1976, this Court found no error in Jones’s conviction and sentence.…
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