THE MURDER OF EVE CARSON

A Criminal Case -The Murder of Eve Carson



A Criminal Case -The Murder of Eve Carson

Introduction

A Brief Background of the Case

The murder of Eve Marie Carson (19 November 1985-5 March 2008) is one of the most upcoming murder case. As once again a white girl (college student, brainy student) was murdered mainly, acts of pure violence without any reason any sense, right after the death of Lauren Burk. These two cases are amongst the most searched cases by Americans on search engines example Google, Yahoo etc. Eve Carson was a student at the University of North Carolina who is shot dead on the morning of March 5, 2008, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. She served as a student body president and was a recipient of the Morehead-Cain Scholarship. She was shot 5 times including once at the head (Montaldo, 2011).

Discussion

Issue in Question

The fundamental issue arises with how her murders are being death for. They are being sentenced to life imprisonment whereby a lot of people have a question concerning this verdict. Demario James Atwater; a resident of 21 years old from Durham, North Carolina have charges of her murder. Federal authorities in October 2008 placed federal charges for carjacking of Eve Carson, requesting the death penalty on Atwater. Atwater made guilty plea in exchange for which the federal prosecutors agreed to leave the penalty of death. On May 24, 2010, Atwater pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in a plea agreement that have to serve life in prison without parole. On Sept. 10, 23, 2010 Atwater received a second sentence of life without parole on federal charges of kidnapping and carjacking resulting in death. A second suspect, 17-year-old Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr., was taken into custody early morning of March 13, 2008. Later it came into notice that Lovette also has a link with the murder of 29-year-old engineering student at Duke University Abhijit Mahato.

Lovette was 18; a minor at the time of the murder, thus faces state charges. Evidence was shown that Atwater used her card along with the fact he also admitted this. Lovett's photos were also seen along. On the basis, of these evidences Atwater is being charged with first-degree robbery, kidnapping and a suspect in the murder. Lovette was arrested by the Carson case after police released two photos of security cameras, which shows he was using Carson's bank card while driving what appears to be the victim's Toyota Highlander. On September 23, 2010 Atwater received an offer of life in prison without possibility of parole for first degree murder charges, along with a parallel sentence 23 - 29 years for armed robbery, kidnapping and firearms charges. He was given order to pay $ 212 947.10 in restitution. Atwater will leave his sentence in federal custody. On the other hand, Lovette is also given life imprisonment verdict without parole on the basis of the fact he was a minor at the time he committed the ...