Legal Opinion
State v. Spivey
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided May 2, 2003No. 299A02PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WAINWRIGHT, Justice.
On 18 October 1994, Henry Bernard Spivey, Jr. (defendant), was arrested for the murder of Jermaine Morris. The record reveals that on 17 October 1994, the previous day, officers were dispatched to a housing project in Lumberton, North Carolina, where they found Morris dead from numerous gunshot wounds. An autopsy showed Morris had been shot eleven times, mostly in the chest and stomach. It appears that defendant turned himself in and told authorities that he shot Morris.
On the day of the murder, defendant and Morris had a conflict over a woman named Samantha Fields, and…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Barker v. WingoSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Doggett v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Oyler v. BolesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- State v. CherrySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1979
- State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1969
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3Cited by38 opinions
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- State v. WashingtonCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2008
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