JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge, specially concurring: I concur in the result and join fully in all of the court’s opinion save Part III dealing with North Carolina’s presumption of malice and unlawfulness in murder trials. As to that, I agree with the court’s ultimate conclusion that the presumption’s use here was not unconstitutional, and with much of the court’s rationale in reaching that conclusion…
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