Eve Carson murder suspect to go to trial this fall

Hillsborough, N.C. — A Superior Court judge in Orange County has set a Nov. 29 trial date for a Durham man accused of killing a University of North Carolina senior more than three years ago.

Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr., 20, is charged with first-degree murder in the March 5, 2008, death of Eve Marie Carson, who authorities say was kidnapped, robbed, shot and left dead on a neighborhood street about a half-mile from the UNC campus.

Carson was the university's student body president at the time of her death.

Another man arrested in the case, Demario James Atwater, is serving two life prison sentences after pleading guilty last year to first-degree murder and several federal charges.

Lovette is also one of two men charged with first-degree murder in the Jan. 18, 2008, death of 29-year-old Abhijit Mahato, a Duke University graduate student found dead in his off-campus apartment. A date hasn't yet been set for that trial.

If convicted of killing Carson, Lovette faces a life prison sentence without the possibility of parole.

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“Most, if not all of those people who have been exonerated with DNA evidence were originally convicted with "solid" evidence” – Elvisisdead

Not they were not. It was mostly, if not all, circumstantial evidence, faulty witnesses, or outright lies.

Lightfoot3
October 5, 2011 6:59 p.m.

Clearly history will attest to how well that worked in Rome.

anne53ozzy
September 29, 2011 3:00 p.m.

Time to quit mollycoddling murderers. Build a colliseum and put these crettins into a gladiator pit and let them fight it out. Then the last one standing gets fed to the lions.

Dragnet1
September 29, 2011 2:45 p.m.

"Amazing grace, how sweet...." this always comes to mind when I see her picture. Honor the wishes of her family.

anne53ozzy
September 29, 2011 1:25 p.m.

Where are the social minded bastions of civil liberties railing about this hate crime against women. Their hypocracy is legion.

tatermommy52
September 29, 2011 1:10 p.m.