WILSON (AP) — A man who was on trial on attempted murder charges fled a Wilson Co. courtroom while he was on lunch break, authorities said. The Wilson County Sheriff’s Office is looking for Deonta Earl Bridgers, 31, who jurors ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The man accused of killing nine people attending Bible study at a historic black church in Charleston has been indicted on three new charges of attempted murder, prosecutors said Tuesday. Dylann Storm Roof, 21, already had ...

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State v. Childress (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-06-1192, 6 pp.) (Mark Martin, Ch. J.) Appealed from Pasquotank County Superior Court (Jerry Tillett, J.) On discretionary review from the Court of Appeals. N.C. S. Ct. Holding: A jury could have found premeditation ...

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Authorities in Catawba County have charged a 17-year-old man and his 16-year-old girlfriend with attempted murder after the man's mother was shot at her home.

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CHARLOTTE (AP) — A Charlotte man has been sentenced to at least nine years in prison after police say he tried to kill himself on Interstate 77 while carrying his 2-year-old daughter. Police say 30-year-old Derrick Summers walked into traffic Jan. 15.

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State v. Ross At the probable cause hearing, defendant was represented by counsel (who was one of his trial counsel), he had the same motive to cross-examine victim Besies as at trial, and his counsel did in fact cross-examine Besies; therefore, defendant had an adequate opportunity to cross-examine Besies. Since Besies was unavailable to testify at trial, the trial court did not violate defendant’s right to confront the witnesses against him when the court admitted Besies’ testimony from the probable cause hearing into evidence.

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State v. Teague The state presented enough evidence of defendant’s intent to kill to reach the jury on a charge of attempted murder: the day that defendant was told to leave the victims’ residence by their daughter-in-law, defendant drove to Walmart and bought a pair of binoculars and a knife; eventually returned to the victims’ residence; laid near the residence watching them with his binoculars; when Maranda — defendant’s teenage wife — and the victims went to bed, he entered the residence and cut both of the victims multiple times in the neck while they were asleep.

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