The North Carolina Court of Appeals has reached a split decision in an appeal of a 2018 murder conviction in which a jury found Khalil Abdul Farook guilty of two counts of second-degree murder.
The court ruled against Farook in his assertion that he was denied a speedy trial but it did agree that Farook’s attorney may not have acted in his best interests.
In June of 2012, Farook was arrested and charged the day after he hit a motorcycle while driving drunk, with a suspended license, killing Tommy Jones, 47, and Suzette Jones, 48…