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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. JOSHUA ANDREW STEPP
    No. 38A14
    (Filed 23 January 2015)
    Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals,_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 Homer 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.