RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - An appeals court is upholding the murder conviction of a North Carolina man who fatally stabbed a rising star in state Democratic Party politics and wounded her husband.
A state Court of Appeals panel ruled unanimously Tuesday that Jonathan Broyhill got a fair trial. Defense lawyers had objected that a prison psychiatrist wasn’t allowed to testify at Broyhill’s trial about the mental problems he suffered more than a year after the killing.
Broyhill was convicted of first-degree murder for the 2013 stabbing death of 29-year-old Jamie Hahn and seriously hurting her husband in the couple’s Raleigh home.
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Broyhill killed Hahn after she allegedly confronted him about money missing from a congressional campaign. Broyhill admitted stealing the money and planning suicide before the killing.
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