Legal Opinion
State v. Montgomery
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided June 25, 1992No. 265A90PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MITCHELL, Justice.
The defendant was convicted of first-degree murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon, first-degree burglary, and attempted first-degree rape. The jury recommended a sentence of death for the conviction of first-degree murder. The defendant raised thirty-six assignments of error on appeal. We do not reach all these assignments of error because, for the reasons stated below, we grant the defendant a new trial.
Some of the State’s evidence at trial tended to show the following. On Saturday, 21 January 1989, Kimberly Piccolo, a student at the University of North Carolina at…
2Cases cited36 opinions
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- In Re WINSHIPSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
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- Powers v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Boyde v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
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3Cited by35 opinions
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- State v. KeelSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1992
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