Supreme Court of North Carolina November 3, 1995, 413A94 (State v. Burke)

FRYE, Justice.

Defendant, Bobby Paul Burke, was tried noncapitally, and a jury found him guilty of the first-degree murder of Patrick Joseph Leuten. The trial judge imposed the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment. Defendant was also convicted of one count of discharging a firearm into an occupied motor vehicle, but judgment was arrested on this

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conviction.