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•Alien Hope Baptist Churchvice:^ As he got closer, he became auspicious and asked his name.•* “Denise,” Mebane told him.“Girls don’t have adam’s apples, do they?” Morrison asked. .^Homosexuals do,” Morrison Jiaid Mebane told him. Another •officer pulled offMebane’s wig ^nd they brought him in. He has ;en jailed in lieu of $100,000 ond since his arrest.Superior Court Judge J.B. '*Hen Jr. issued an order for two prosecuting witnesses to appear $h court Tuesday, alter officers ■fcjmressed doubts they would.' The night of the robbery, Irma Jean Thompson and her 13-year-old daughter identifiedMebane in a six photo lineup asthe man they saw running fromthe store.“She was reluctant... because she was afraid what could happen to her and her daughter, Burlington Det John Gibson said. Both picked Mebane out independently and Thompson gave his name, Gibson said.Officers could not recover any distinct fingerprints at the scene.They did find Newman’s blood and locks of hair ripped from the roots behind the counter.Janet Newman testified her husband was transferred to Duke Medical Center. She saw him in the emergency room there about 3 a.m. the next day.“He was throwing up bloodChapel Hill.profiisely,” Newman said. She said her husband wanted to sleep, but doctors wouldn’t let him because of his head injury.In addition to cuts on either side of his head, his skull had been fractured in three places, and his shoulder had been fractured as well.Newman now suffers paralysis on the right side of his face and must wear a clear eye patch since one lid will not shut even during sleep, she said. His right eardrum was also ruptured, and the nerve damage affects his speech. So far, the medical bills have been $7,770, she said.Defense attorney Charles Thompson asked for a mistrial after Assistant District Attorney Robert Martin put Mebane’s pa-times at the home.role officer on the stand. She did not say Mebane was a parolee in front of the jury, but he was paroled for forgery and possession of stolen goods about a month before the robbery.Thompson said the parole officer’s brief testimony about where Mebane lived prejudiced his client, but the motion was denied.Closing arguments began this morning, with the case expected to go to the jury today. If convicted of both armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill inflicting serious injury, Mebane faces a maximum sentence of 60 years with a presumptive term of 20 years in prison.materialized.”Black said an officia ticket sales won’t be n several weeks. But a s reservations made on shows that between 12people booked seats orun the Carolinian ma through the state, he s train’s three cars have ty of 191 passengers.Since reservations c made by calling Amtra not necessarily indica’ many people bought tiBlack pointed out th ies like Burlington, wl have stations, passeng buy their tickets after board. But they must 1 reservations and must conductor the reserval ber given them by the operator.The train makes dai from Charlotte to Rod and back, stopping in i ies and towns along th Northbound it stops in ton at 10:39 a.m., with
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Burlington Times News
Burlington, North Carolina, US
Wed, May 23, 1990
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