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  "name": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. PEARL ALFREDA WEST",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. West",
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      "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. PEARL ALFREDA WEST"
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "PER CURIAM.\nHaving carefully considered the opinion of the Court of Appeals, the records, briefs and oral arguments in the case before us, we conclude that our order of 26 September 1985 allowing the State\u2019s petition for discretionary review was improvidently allowed.\nDiscretionary review improvidently allowed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Lacy H. Thornburg, Attorney General, by Luden Capone, III, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.",
      "Malcolm Ray Hunter, Jr., Acting Appellate Defender, for defendant-appe lie e.",
      "Jane M. Edmisten, William A. Friedlander and Crombie J. D. Garrett, Attorneys, Amici Curiae."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. PEARL ALFREDA WEST\nNo. 545PA85\n(Filed 7 January 1986)\nWe granted the State\u2019s petition for discretionary review pursuant to N.C.G.S. \u00a7 7A-31 on 26 September 1985 to review the decision of the Court of Appeals (Arnold, J., Hedrick, Chief Judge, and Cozort, J., concurring) reported at 76 N.C. App. 459, 333 S.E. 2d 522 (1985). The Court of Appeals held that defendant\u2019s motion to dismiss \u201cfor insufficiency of the evidence should have been granted.\u201d In so holding the Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of Pope, J., sentencing defendant to imprisonment for twenty-five years upon the jury verdict of guilty of second degree murder entered at the 9 April 1984 Session of Duplin County Superior Court.\nLacy H. Thornburg, Attorney General, by Luden Capone, III, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.\nMalcolm Ray Hunter, Jr., Acting Appellate Defender, for defendant-appe lie e.\nJane M. Edmisten, William A. Friedlander and Crombie J. D. Garrett, Attorneys, Amici Curiae."
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