Court Opinion

ID: 9856802
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:58:22.391597+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:40:39.239809
License: Public Domain

Bobbitt, J.,
concurring in result. The differences between the Federal Kidnapping Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a), considered in United States v. Jackson, 390 U.S. 570, 20 L. Ed. 2d 138, 88 S. Ct. 1209, and the North Carolina statutes codified as G.S. 14-21 and G.S. 15-162.1, are set forth clearly and accurately in the Court’s opinion.
This defendant pleaded not guilty. After trial by jury, the verdict was guilty of rape as charged with the recommendation that defendant’s punishment be imprisonment for life. Accordingly, a judgment of life imprisonment was pronounced.
This appeal does not present for decision whether United States v. Jackson, supra, invalidates the death penalty under present North Carolina statutes. I would reserve decision of this very important question and withhold any expression of views with reference thereto until the question is directly presented and further explored and considered. Hence, I withhold approval of expressions in the Court’s opinion relating to this question.
Except as stated, I concur in the Court’s opinion and in the result.
Shaep, J., joins in this opinion.