State v. Freeman

BRANCH, Chief Justice.

Defendant contends that he was tried by a “death-qualified jury” and was thereby deprived of his constitutional rights to a jury drawn from a cross-section of the community, to equal protection of the law and to an impartial trial. We have repeatedly held that North Carolina’s jury selection process in first-degree murder cases is constitutional. State v. Vereen, 312 N.C. 499, 324 S.E. 2d 250 (1985); State v. Noland, 312 N.C. 1, 320 S.E. 2d 642 (1984), cert. denied, — U.S. —, 105 S.Ct. 1232 (1985). This contention is without merit.

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Defendant assigns as error the trial…