288 N.C. 553 - State v. Patterson

How this case has been cited

Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently February 1999 · most notably Johnson v. State (1982), State v. Easterling (1980)

81 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Chief Justice Sharp

¶1dissenting as to the death penalty:

¶2■ • The murder for which defendant was convicted occurred on 14 June 1973, a date between 18 January 1973, the day of the *574decision in State v. Waddell, 282 N.C. 431, 194 S.E. 2d 19, and 8 April 1974, the day on which the General Assembly rewrote G.S. 14-21 by the enactment of Chapter 1201 of the Session Laws of 1973. For the reasons stated by Chief Justice Bobbitt in his dissenting- opinion in State v. Jarrette, 284 N.C. 625, 666, 202 S.E. 2d 721, 747 (1974) — an opinion in which Justice Higgins and I joined — , I dissent as to the death sentence imposed upon defendant by the court below and vote to remand for the imposition of a sentence of life imprisonment. See also the dissenting opinion of Chief Justice Bobbitt, and my concurrence therein, in State v. Waddell, supraat 453 and 476, 194 S.E. 2d at 30 and 47.