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Court TV to Air a One-Hour Documentary on Former Carolina Panther Rae Carruth On January 16 At 10:00 P.M. to Coincide With His Capital Murder Trial.


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NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2001

Special Edition of MugShots: Rae Carruth Rae Lamar Carruth (born January 20, 1974 in Sacramento, California) is a former American football wide receiver in the NFL for the Carolina Panthers. In 2001, he was found guilty of conspiring to murder his girlfriend and is currently serving a prison sentence. [1]. :

Sudden Death in Carolina Charts the Rise and Fall of Rae Carruth

Court TV will complement its daytime trial coverage of the capital murder trial of former Carolina Panther Rae Carruth with a one-hour primetime documentary. Mugshots: Rae Carruth: Sudden Death in Carolina, which will premiere on Tuesday, January 16th at 10:00 p.m./ET, charts the rise and fall of the first professional athlete to face the death penalty.

Carruth, 26, has been charged with masterminding the murder of his pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams. He is on trial for four crimes under North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures


Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop.
 law: murder, conspiracy to commit murder, use of a gun with intent to kill an unborn child, and discharging a firearm into occupied property.

On November 15th, 1999 Carruth and Adams went to an evening showing of The Bone Collector. After returning to Carruth's home to pick up Adams' car, the two drove off in separate vehicles. Allegedly, as Adams followed Carruth's SUV, he stopped and a third car drew up alongside her car and opened fire. Four bullets struck her in the back and neck, damaging her stomach, liver and right lung

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. Despite her injuries, she called 911 identifying Carruth as a possible suspect in the shooting. Adams died 30 days later in the hospital, her baby survived, and is now being raised by his grandmother.

Prosecutors claim that Carruth orchestrated Adams' murder to avoid paying child support. The defense claims that he was a proud father-to-be and that she is simply the unwitting victim of an aborted drug deal. This one-hour special edition of Mugshots features interviews with Carruth's friends, family and colleagues.

Court TV's daytime trial coverage of the case, NFL NFL
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National Football League

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 Star Death Penalty Trial, began on November 20th and is reported by Court TV's Mary Jane Stevenson Dr. Jane Stevenson (born 1959) is a UK author who was born in London and brought up in London, Beijing and Bonn. She has lectured in history at Sheffield University, and teaches literature and history at the University of Aberdeen. . The trial has also been featured on Catherine Crier's daily legal news show, Crier CRIER. An inferior officer of a court, whose duty it is to open and adjourn the court, when ordered by the judges; to make proclamations and obey the directions of the court in anything which concerns the administration of justice.  Today, the network's legal magazine, Pros & Cons, and the crime and justice network's website, www.courttv.com.

For Court TV, Anthony Horn executive produced. For Parco International, John Parsons John Parsons could refer to:
  • John Whiteside (Jack) Parsons (1914–1952)
  • John Parsons, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University 1807–1810
  • John T. Parsons, a pioneer in Numerical control for machine tools.
 executive produced.

Court TV (http://www.courttv.com), a basic cable network, provides a window on the American system The term American System can mean one of the following:
  • American system of manufacturing, for a system of manufacturing developed in America.
  • American System (economic plan), for the program of Henry Clay and the Whig Party.
 of justice through distinctive programming that both informs and entertains. As the first and only cable network dedicated to crime and justice, Court TV broadcasts live trials by day and crime stories in the evening. A service of Time Warner Entertainment and Liberty Media Corp., Court TV has over 50 million subscribers and expects to have 60 million by 2001.
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