The state intends to seek a second-degree murder conviction against Marquis Whitmore based on two theories.
Evidence in the first full day of testimony shows Marquis Whitmore was traveling between 69 to 72 miles per hour when he crashed his vehicle into a Honda driven by a 25-year-old Roanoke Rapids woman who later died from the injuries she sustained.
Marquis Whitmore this afternoon opted to stand trial for the charges lodged against him in the December 2014 traffic death of Leslie Fishel.
Halifax County Superior Court Judge Alma Hinton will continue her study of three reports entered as evidence which are said to show Gene Arnold “Root Root” Hawkins is now competent to stand trial in the 2006 murder of Roanoke Rapids businessman Shelby Salmon.
Documents filed by the North Carolina State Bar show a relationship between a disbarred attorney and a man who is scheduled for trial in February in the December 2014 traffic death of a Roanoke Rapids woman.
Bond reduction for a man charged in the May murder of a Littleton area farmhand was denied this morning.
Two people charged in the May murder of a Littleton area farmhand will be prosecuted on first-degree murder charges, the state announced today in Halifax County Superior Court.
Matthew Simms and Taphil Yancy will not receive the same plea deal four other defendants in the 2015 murder of Jarshamel Cambridge have received.
Two more men took guilty pleas today in the 2015 murder of Jarshamel Cambridge in Enfield.
One victim was at unease in her own home. The second was broken.
