State's first Racial Justice Act hearing begins in Fayetteville

30 January 2012, 2:54 pm

The first challenge to a death sentence in North Carolina using the Racial Justice Act got underway Monday in Cumberland County. Lawyers for death row inmate Marcus Robinson claim that racial bias played a role in the jury selection for his trial. That jury convicted Robinson of killing 17-year-old Erik Tornblom in 1991.... Read More »

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