Opinion
No. 38A14.
2015-01-23
STATE of North Carolina v. Joshua Andrew STEPP.
Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Anne M. Middleton and Sherri Horner Lawrence, Assistant Attorneys General, for the State-appellant.Staples S. Hughes, Appellate Defender, by Barbara S. Blackman, Assistant Appellate Defender, for defendant-appellee.
Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A–30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, State v. Stepp, ––– N.C.App. ––––, 753 S.E.2d 485 (2014), reversing a judgment entered on 13 September 2011 by Judge W. Osmond Smith, III in Superior Court, Wake County and ordering that defendant receive a new trial. Heard in the Supreme Court on 12 January 2015. Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Anne M. Middleton and Sherri Horner Lawrence, Assistant Attorneys General, for the State-appellant. Staples S. Hughes, Appellate Defender, by Barbara S. Blackman, Assistant Appellate Defender, for defendant-appellee.
PER CURIAM.
For the reasons stated in the dissenting opinion, the decision of the Court of Appeals is reversed.
REVERSED.