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  "id": 8527573,
  "name": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. WILLIAM JONES, JR.",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Jones",
  "decision_date": "1984-05-15",
  "docket_number": "No. 8327SC461",
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    "judges": [
      "Before VAUGHN, Chief Judge, and Judges Hill and Johnson."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. WILLIAM JONES, JR."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "This case was first disposed of by this Court by an unpublished opinion filed 6 December 1983 which found no error in defendant\u2019s trial.\nThe evidence showed that defendant and several others went to the bus station in Gastonia to \u201cmess around with the whores.\u201d Defendant told one female there that \u201cWe\u2019ll burn you whores out.\u201d About 12:30 a.m. defendant went to the Southern Hotel in Gastonia, where that female lived. He took bed sheets into a bathroom of the hotel and arranged them into three piles. He then set them on fire. We regarded the three piles of sheets as devices arranged for a particular purpose \u2014 to set fire to the hotel, which was occupied by a number of people. Since the defendant was not convicted of first degree arson but was convicted under G.S. 14-67, we felt that the fact that the building was occupied was not an element of the offense and could be considered as an aggravating factor. We agreed with the trial judge who found as an aggravating factor, under G.S. 15A-1340.4(a)(l)g that: \u201cThe defendant knowingly created a great risk of death to more than one person by means of a weapon or device which would normally be hazardous to the lives of more than one person.\u201d\nWe subsequently received the following order from the Supreme Court:\nUpon consideration of the Defendant\u2019s petition filed in this matter for a writ of certiorari to the North Carolina Court of Appeals to review its decision, the petition is allowed for the sole purpose of entering the following order:\nThe case is remanded to the North Carolina Court of Appeals for further remand to the Superior Court, Gaston County, for resentencing without the application of the aggravating factor listed in G.S. 15A-1340.4(a)(l)g. By order of the Court in conference, this the 3rd day of April 1984.\nThis case is, therefore, remanded to the Superior Court in accordance with the foregoing order.\nRemanded.",
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      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney General Edmisten, by Robert L. Hillman, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.",
      "Robert W. Clark, Assistant Public Defender, for the defendant appellant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. WILLIAM JONES, JR.\nNo. 8327SC461\n(Filed 15 May 1984)\nON remand from the North Carolina Supreme Court by order filed 5 April 1984.\nAttorney General Edmisten, by Robert L. Hillman, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.\nRobert W. Clark, Assistant Public Defender, for the defendant appellant.\nDefendant was indicted for first degree arson and was convicted of attempting to burn in violation of G.S. 14-67.\nBefore VAUGHN, Chief Judge, and Judges Hill and Johnson."
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