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  "id": 1659792,
  "name": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. WENDELL FLOWERS",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Flowers",
  "decision_date": "1998-07-08",
  "docket_number": "No. 553A94",
  "first_page": "494",
  "last_page": "494",
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      "cite": "348 N.C. 494"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
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      "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. WENDELL FLOWERS"
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "ORDER\nFollowing defendant\u2019s direct appeal to this Court and the denial of his petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, the Warden of Central Prison set an execution date of 24 April 1998. On 23 April 1998, Doris Flowers, filing as \u201cnext friend of Wendell Flowers,\u201d petitioned this Court for a Writ of Certiorari requesting that this Court enter an order, inter alia, staying Flowers\u2019 then-scheduled 24 April 1998 execution. Pursuant to Doris Flowers\u2019 petition, this Court granted a stay of execution, ordering the Rowan County Superior Court to conduct an evidentiary hearing to determine Flowers\u2019 competence as defined in N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-1001(a). Upon completion of said hearing, the Superior Court, Rowan County, was directed to certify to this Court within 20 days of the entry of its order, a copy of said order and a transcript and record of the proceedings. At the conclusion of all the evidence, Judge Jerry Cash Martin concluded as a matter of law that Flowers \u201cis competent and has the legal capacity to proceed as defined as set forth in N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-1001(a) including the legal capacity to make any decisions incident to the legal issues which exist pursuant to his sentence of death.\u201d\nConsequently, defendant\u2019s Pro Se Motion to Set Execution Date is allowed for the limited puipose of entering the following order.\nThe Court hereby dissolves its previous stay of execution entered on 23 April 1998.\nThe Warden of Central Prison is hereby directed to schedule a date for the execution of the original death sentence not less than 30 days nor more than 45 days from the date of receiving this order.\nBy order of the Court in Conference, this 8th day of July, 1998.\nOrr, J.\nFor the Court",
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        "author": "Orr, J."
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    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. WENDELL FLOWERS\nNo. 553A94\n(Filed 8 July 1998)"
  },
  "file_name": "0494-01",
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