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  "name": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. JOHNNIE LEE SPRUILL",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Spruill",
  "decision_date": "2004-07-23",
  "docket_number": "No. 404A92-5",
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    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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    "opinions": [
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        "text": "ORDER\nDefendant\u2019s Petition for Writ of Mandamus is allowed. The trial court concluded as a matter of law that defendant satisfied N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-2006 by proving that he was mentally retarded, as defined in N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-2005(a), at the time of the commission of the capital crime in 1984. This Court finds no basis for disturbing such conclusion of law and holds that a defendant who satisfied N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-2006 is lawfully entitled to appropriate relief pursuant to N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-2006. Accordingly, the Superior Court, Northampton County, is hereby ordered to grant defendant appropriate relief pursuant to N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-2006.\nBy order of the Court in Conference, this 23rd day of July, 2004.\ns/Brady, J.\nFor the Court\nUpon consideration of the petition filed by Defendant on the 9th day of July 2004 in this matter for a writ of certiorari to review the order of the Superior Court, Northampton County, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the Superior Court of that County:\n\u201cDismissed as moot by order of the Court in conference, this the 23rd day of July 2004.\ns/Brady, J.\nFor the Court",
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    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. JOHNNIE LEE SPRUILL\nNo. 404A92-5"
  },
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