State v. Valentine

LAKE, Chief Justice.

Defendant was indicted on 12 January 1998 for one count of first-degree murder and one count of discharging a firearm into occupied property. The cases came on for trial at the 3 January 2000 session of Superior Court, Hertford County.

On 20 January 2000, the jury returned verdicts of guilty on both counts and, following a capital sentencing proceeding, recommended a sentence of death on the conviction for first-degree murder. Defendant was sentenced to death and further received a sentence of thirty-four to fifty months’ imprisonment on the conviction for discharging a…