Opinion

State v. Patterson

  • 288 N.C. 553
  • 220 S.E.2d 600
  • 1975 N.C. LEXIS 1031
Court
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Filed
Dec 17, 1975
Status
Published
Author
Copeland
On the bench
Moore, Sharp, Copeland, Exum, Stacy
Cited by
47 cases
Authority
More cited than 5.9%

Vacated in part, on other grounds by Michigan v. Mosley, 423 U.S. 96 (1975)

no substantive error found

How later courts described this case

  • no substantive error found

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Justice Copeland

dissents as to death sentence and votes to remand for imposition of a sentence of life imprisonment for the reasons stated in his dissenting opinion in State v. Williams, 286 N.C. 422, 437 , 212 S.E. 2d 113, 122 (1975).

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