Title: State v. Stepp
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 38A14
State: north-carolina
Issuer: north-carolina Supreme Court
Date: January 23, 2015

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA 
 
No. 38A14 
  
Filed 23 January 2015 
 
 
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA  
 
 
v. 
JOSHUA ANDREW STEPP 
 
 
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 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.