Neither semantics on an indictment nor a prosecutor’s characterization of a defendant as a “homicidal manipulative sociopath” are enough to warrant him a new trial for stabbing a homeless shelter volunteer, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. In ...
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Read More »A North Carolina man is accused of stabbing a state trooper in the shoulder following vehicular and foot chases. The Gaston Gazette reports that the state Department of Safety said in a release that troopers responding a report of reckless ...
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Read More »RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for the 2014 stabbing death of a Raleigh teen. Local media outlets report that 22-year-old Jerome Lee Gardner was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to second-degree ...
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Read More »State v. Mangum (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-07-0678, 24 pp.) (Ann Marie Calabria, J.) Appealed from Durham County Superior Court (Paul Ridgeway, J.) N.C. App. Holding: The stabbing incident in question and an earlier incident both involved defendant and her current ...
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Read More »State v. Epps (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-06-0322, 1 p.) (Per Curiam) (Sam Ervin IV, J., not participating) Appealed from Gaston County Superior Court (Hugh B. Lewis, J.) On appeal from the Court of Appeals. N.C. S. Ct. Holding: We affirm ...
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Read More »NEW BERN (AP) — A frantic and bloodied mother whose three sons were killed in a knife attack jumped from an upstairs window and ran across the street for help, according to neighbors. A couple, who, like the suspect and ...
Read More »CHARLOTTE (AP) — An inmate has pleaded guilty in the stabbing death of another inmate at a prison in Anson County. The Charlotte Observer reported that Gregorio Cortez Vazquez pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder in court in Wadesboro and ...
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Read More »A Baltimore woman has been charged in connection with the stabbing death of a man found inside a Fayetteville home in February.
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Read More »A Houston woman attacked her boyfriend in a fit of rage, sat on him after knocking him down and then stabbed him to death with the stiletto heel of her shoe, striking him at least 25 times in the face, a prosecutor told jurors Monday.
Read More »A Fayetteville woman has been arrested and charged with the stabbing death of her boyfriend.
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