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Atwater indictments.........Eve Carson; Grand jury revises them
Topic Started: Feb 9 2009, 02:51 PM (523 Views)
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http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1399400.html


A federal grand jury has revised the indictments against Demario Atwater to include a federal kidnapping charge several weeks after the U.S. attorney general gave prosecutors permission to seek the death penalty in the case.

Atwater, 22, is accused of killing Eve Carson, the UNC-Chapel Hill student body president found shot to death 11 months ago nearly a mile from campus.

The murder case against Atwater is in state court, but federal prosecutors have accused him of carjacking, weapons and now kidnapping charges that could bring the death penalty if committed in a homicide.

In mid-January, several days before the transfer of presidential power, Michael B. Mukasey, the outgoing U.S. attorney general, issued his decision to seek the death penalty in the federal charges against Atwater.

In late January, a federal grand jury indicted Atwater on the federal kidnapping charge, claiming he used automated teller machines, telephones and interstate and public roads in the commission of the offense.

The grand jury's revised indictment, entered in federal court on Jan. 30, also lists some of the aggravating factors that prosecutors plan to use in their push for the death penalty. The homicide was committed in such an "especially heinous, cruel and depraved manner" that it "involved torture and serious physical abuse to the victim," the indictment says.

The first federal charges came in October, more than six months after Orange County prosecutors charged Atwater with murder.

Atwater also faces the death penalty in Orange County, where a grand jury has not sent anybody to death row since 1973.

Laurence Alvin Lovette, 18, is also charged with murder and kidnapping in the Carson killing. Because he was 17 at the time of the incident, state prosecutors cannot seek the death penalty against Lovette.

Investigators have said that Atwater and Lovette kidnapped Carson early in the morning of March 5 and forced her to withdraw $1,400 from automated teller machines before they shot her with a .25-caliber handgun and a sawed-off shotgun.

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The N&O is just now putting this information out? I read about this on the WRAL site several days ago. The N&O is getting rather slow & sloppy.

Who do they have working for them now some of the 7 dwarfs? Doppy, Lazy, Dummy & Sleepy? :confus:
Edited by Kerri P., Feb 9 2009, 03:11 PM.
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Feb 9 2009, 03:10 PM
The N&O is just now putting this information out? I read about this on the WRAL site several days ago. The N&O is getting rather slow & sloppy.

Who do they have working for them now some of the 7 dwarfs? Doppy, Lazy, Dummy & Sleepy? :confus:
and MNI is planning to charge for some content.
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http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/4502277/
Feds amend indictment against UNC murder suspect
Posted: Today at 3:25 p.m.
Updated: Today at 4:28 p.m.

Greensboro, N.C. — Federal prosecutors have revised indictments against one of two suspects in the slaying of a UNC student to include stronger language.

The Jan. 30 indictment against Demario James Atwater, 22, contains language that the crime against Eve Marie Carson was "especially heinous, cruel and depraved … in that it involved torture and serious physical abuse."

Chapel Hill police believe Atwater and Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr. kidnapped Carson and forced her to withdraw $1,400 from ATMs before shooting her five times, including once in the head.


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ETA: The Wral is on top of this again.
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