Legal Opinion
Bacon v. Lee
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided September 6, 2000No. 99-21, 99-23PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed in part and reversed in part by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge TRAXLER joined. Judge KING wrote a separate opinion concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part.
OPINION
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge.
A North Carolina jury convicted Robert Bacon of the murder of Glennie Clark and sentenced him to death. On appeal, the North Carolina Supreme Court vacated the death sentence, ruling that there was sufficient evidence to support a statutory mitigating circumstance that the trial court had failed to submit to the jury. Following a second sentencing…
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