Court says to drop murder charge against NC man due to double jeopardy
The dead man was stabbed in the head during a prison brawl. He had been in prison for the murder in 2008 of a high school athlete in Duplin County. A jury deadlocked on whether the accused stabber is guilty. Police investigators in 2016 failed to collect a bag of bloody clothes after a fatal stabbing at a North Carolina prison, and that triggered a chain of events that likely will lead to the dismissal of charges — and freedom — for the prisoner who was charged with murdering his fellow inmate. That’s the upshot of a ruling issued this month by the N.C. Court of...
Source: fayobserver.com