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State High Court orders new trials for two condemned men
The North Carolina Supreme Court reversed parts of murder verdicts, ordering new trials for two condemned men while upholding other death sentences and life terms. It upheld a bombing conviction of Jack Sellers in the undercover narcotics case, and affirmed related rulings on several murder and robbery cases from Mecklenburg, Guilford, Durham and Onslow counties.
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State High Court
Raleigh
Vean Vrucres
David Benjamin Smith
Bobby Orlando Foster
Mecklenburg County
Charlotte Days Inn
Arthur William Hawkins
Norman Bruce Wagstaff
James Thomas
Thomas
Mane
S Maus
James Douglas Junes
William Cephus Morris
Union Trust Bank
Ellenboro
Morris
Harrill
James A. Bush
Onslow County
Kirby W. Marshburn
Jacksonville
Marshburn
Eva
Bush
Michael Allen Lester
Robert Abcam Waller
Guilford County
Durham County
Isaac Joe Taylor Jr
Michael Anthony
Charles Iw .Thompson
Iar
Taylor
Lawrence Jerome Harris
Richard Weddle
Harris
Weddle
Keith Blackwell
Blackwell
Supreme Court
Jack Sellers
Albert Stout Jr
State Bureau of Investigation
Jule Hutton Jr
Charlotte Police Department
Salisbury
Sellers
Otis Blackmon
Stout