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      "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. LUIS MERCADO"
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "PER CURIAM.\nWe allowed the state\u2019s petition for discretionary review principally to consider whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding that involuntary manslaughter was not a lesser included offense of murder. This question has now been addressed and answered in State v. Greene, 314 N.C. 649, 336 S.E. 2d 87 (1985) (involuntary manslaughter is a lesser included offense of murder).\nThe Court of Appeals also held there was no evidence of involuntary manslaughter and had it not been submitted there was a reasonable likelihood defendant would have been acquitted altogether. Therefore, the submission of involuntary manslaughter was reversible error; and defendant, having been acquitted of all other degrees of homicide, was entitled to be discharged. We do not think this aspect of the Court of Appeals\u2019 opinion is deserving of further review.\nThe result is that the state\u2019s petition in the instant case may be considered improvidently allowed.\nDiscretionary review improvidently allowed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Lacy H. Thornburg, Attorney General, by Roy A. Giles, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for the state appellant.",
      "James R. Parish for defendant appellee."
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    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. LUIS MERCADO\nNo. 121PA85\n(Filed 5 November 1985)\nOn discretionary review of the decision of the Court of Appeals, 72 N.C. App. 521, 325 S.E. 2d 313 (1985), reversing judgment of Bowen, J., entered at the 12 December 1983 Criminal Session of Cumberland County Superior Court, sentencing defendant to three years\u2019 imprisonment upon a jury verdict finding defendant guilty of involuntary manslaughter.\nLacy H. Thornburg, Attorney General, by Roy A. Giles, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for the state appellant.\nJames R. Parish for defendant appellee."
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