Henry Lee McCollum

• Confession
• Informant

● Met victim at little red house near ballpark ● Culprits brought six-pack of Bull Malt Liquor Schlitz, 16-ounce cans to murder scene and drank them. ● Took victim across bean field ● Picked up six foot long board (found with blood stains on it) ● Victim naked laying on board ● victim choked with own panties on a stick (consistent with what medical examiner found) and he "got up and demonstrated" how this was done ● Victim cut with knife ● Body dragged in bean field ● Victim’s white blouse had "a little flower on it" ● Two culprits smoked Newport cigarettes ● marked location of the rape and murder on a map BUT Excluded by fingerprints found on beer cans

“Now, … at that point in time did you know anything about a board? A. I did not.” "[D]id you know anything about the Schlitz Bull Malt Liquor beer or a plastic holder for beer cans? A. No, sir. I had never been to the crime scene.” During the interrogation, “He got up and demonstrated” how victim was choked. “We didn’t have to use any technique. He was cooperative from the time we picked him up.” “I didn’t ask him questions. He would volunteer some things and I would ask him some things.”

“We know that the stick was broken in [the victim’s] neck because we found part of the stick still remaining in her throat, wrapped in the panties.” “The lawyer stood up here and argued to you that the officers, by some sort of foul means, pulled this confession out of these two defendants. Is that what their evidence is? Their evidence is that they never made a statement of any kind and that the officer just sat down and made up these statements… Now, come on folks. They must think you were born yesterday to swallow something like that."

• Coerced Confession
• Confrontation Clause
• Improper Capital Sentencing Instructions
• Jury Selection
• Prosecutorial Misconduct
• Speedy Trial claim
• State Law Evidence Claim

• Jury Instructions

• G

State v. McCollum, 364 S.E.2d 112 (NC 1988)
State v. McCollum, 433 S.E.2d 144 (NC 1993)