Link the cuts on travions palms to struggle with Melissa Huggins jones. The jurors obviously felt the state proved a firstdegree murder case. Now heres what happens tomorrow. There will be a so called mini trial if you will. The jurors come back and listen to evidence, the victims family will speak through victim impact statements. Itll take several days then the jurors go back to the jury room and deliberate. Should smith get the Death Penalty or not. Steve, wncn news now. Were following breaking news in raleigh. Police tell us theyre on the scene of a Death Investigation after receiving a report of a dead person on South Wilmington streets near the greenway on city farm road. Be sure to stay with wncn. Com and your mobile news app as we continue to learn more. To meet a friday deadline set by a panel of federal judges, state lawmakers are working to withdraw this will effect next months primary election. Bo minnick breaks it all down. Including how the legal battle may not be over ye
Also responsible. Family members of melissa hugginsjones cried as the jury read their verdict. Smith showed no emotion. The defense did not call any witnesses, nor did they put on any asset evidence in the testimony phase but ours expected to do now in the sentencing phase which could take 2 to 3 days. The jury will have to decide to send him to prison without the chance of parole for the rest of his life, or convict him and sent him ultimately to die for his crimes. It has been an emotional trial, tara lynn, live in raleigh. A fayettville woman will appear in court accused of stabbing a man to death. Monica holt is charged with Second Degree murder of 67year old thomas mcnair. The two were acquaintances. The incidenthappened during a fight at ellis street yesterday. Neighbors say he was a fixture in the neighborhood. I just know that he was her and help her out. Its unfortunate in the process, him being nice, this had to happen to him. He did not deserve it. Holt is currently being he
Time. That would be an amazing thing to comed out of this, nobody else has to go through what we went through because people understand the preservation principles better than before. Reporter we talked to a few neighbor whose say there are scars from the dispute, but for the most part the neighborhood is like family, you fight and move on. As for weesner, she had not had an opportunity to look at the ruling and didnt want to comment on it. I spoke to her attorney this afternoon, he said they are reviewing all the options including another appeal. Linda. Hopefully everybody can move on. Julie sims, live in raleigh, thank you. For the first time, we are getting a look inside that modern home if the historic oakwood neighborhood. The owner shared the pictures with us today. We posted a slide show on line. Look for the story on the home page of wral. Com. A fayetteville woman is murder accused of stabbing a man to death. Police say monica holt killed 67 year old thomas mcnair. They were a
Notice the roads look a little damp roxboro, nothing frozen there. Temperatures are too warm for icy conditions this morning. 39 in zebulon and wake forest. 42 holly springs. 37 roxboro. 41 goldsboro, 39 southern pines. Folks are in the 30s this morning, not down to freezing. 38 at 8 00 a. M. , 48 lunchtime. High of 52ing cooler than yesterday, we should have nice sunshine and brian here, looking at roads this morning, little bit wet out there but not bad. This camera illustrates it well on 85, 70, see its rained enough to get the concrete wet on the rails of the bridge. We are not talking about wet conditions heres we are not looking at ponding water or anything like that. The rainfall is just heavy enough to get the roads damp this morning. I dont think it will be a huge problem. The road weather index, most of this is confined north of raleigh in to parts of durham up towards the North Carolina we will watch out and see what the roads are like north and east before too long as the r
A greatlooking dog. Walks like a winner. We will get to that. We have breaking news overnight. Apple is refusing to follow a Government Order to hack the San Bernardino shooters phone. The fbi believes important clues about accomplices and more plots could be hidden on the phone but apple says complying with the Government Order could endanger everyone with an iphone. Abcs Pierre Thomas has all the latest from washington. Good morning, pierre. Reporter good morning, george. Its a showdown between the fbi and apple. The fbi trying to force apple to open that iphone as it hunts for clues in the San Bernardino massacre. Apple saying no way and this morning a federal court is weighing in. A federal judge in california ordering apple to help the fbi unlock an iphone used by syed farook who went on a murderous rampage with his wife leaving 14 dead in San Bernardino. We still have one of those killers phones we have not been able to open and its been over two months still working on it. A key