Case Name: STATE of North Carolina v. Pierre AMERSON
Court: Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 2018-02-27
Citations: 809 S.E.2d 500
Docket Number: No. 45P18
Parties: STATE of North Carolina
v.
Pierre AMERSON
Judges: 
Reporter: South Eastern Reporter 2d
Volume: 809
Pages: 500–500

Head Matter:
STATE of North Carolina
v.
Pierre AMERSON
No. 45P18
Supreme Court of North Carolina.
February 27, 2018
G. Glenn Gerding, Appellate Defender, Amanda S. Zimmer, Assistant Appellate Defender, for Amerson, Pierre.
Michael S. Beam, III, Assistant District Attorney, Joseph L. Hyde, Assistant Attorney General, Vernon K. Stewart, District Attorney, for State of N.C.
G. Glenn Gerding, Attorney at Law.
ORDER

Opinion:
Defendant's Emergency Petition for Writ of Certiorari is allowed: the orders entered by the trial court denying defendant's motion to continue on 15 December 2017 and denying defendant's reconsideration motion on 24 January 2018 are vacated; and this case is remanded to the Superior Court, Lee County, for the entry of an order allowing a reasonable continuance from the scheduled 19 March 2018 trial date and further proceedings not inconsistent with this order:
"Spec Order by order of the Court in conference, this the 27th of February 2018."
The following order has been entered on the motion filed on the 15th of February 2018 by Defendant to Consider Supplemental Ex Parte Transcript and Argument Related to Emergency Petition for Writ of Certiorari:
"Motion Allowed by order of the Court in conference, this the 27th of February 2018."