Trial begins for second suspect in Eve Carson murder

Posted Nov 28, 2011
One of the men accused of the 2008 murder of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson finally faces justice Monday, more than three years after her death. Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr., 20, is charged with first-degree murder and could spend the rest of his life in prison if he is convicted. (WRAL.com)

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