Jermaine Antwan Tart.
If a man works with bears, he might get eaten. If a man works with niggers, he might get stabbed.
Seems obvious to me, but we’re still expected to be shocked when the latter happens.
The N.C. Supreme Court upheld on Friday the attempted-murder conviction of a Winston-Salem man who used two knives to repeatedly stab a volunteer at a homeless shelter in March 2014.
The decision comes more than a year after a lower appellate court, the N.C. Court of Appeals, overturned the conviction based on arguments that Forsyth County prosecutors didn’t properly word the indictment for attempted first-degree murder.
A Forsyth County jury on Aug. 26, 2016, found Jermaine Antwan Tart guilty of attempted first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury. Judge Brad Long of Forsyth Superior Court sentenced Tart to a minimum of about 18 years and a maximum of 22 years in prison.
Tart was accused of stabbing Richard Cassidy, a volunteer shelter monitor, in the chest, back and neck on March 2, 2014. Cassidy had been walking Tart and other men from Loaves and Fish ministry on Fifth Street to an overflow shelter at First Presbyterian Church.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys did not dispute whether Tart stabbed Cassidy. The dispute was over whether Tart had diminished capacity and if he intended to kill Cassidy.
Richard Cassidy.