Opinion ID: 1269334
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Heading: Challenge to Jury Panel

Text: The defendants contend that the trial judge erred in failing to discharge the jury panel as being improperly and illegally drawn. Defendant Paige made a motion to quash the jury panel [properly a challenge to the jury panel under N.C.G.S. § 15A-1211(c)] and in his motion adopted the evidence and testimony heard by Judge Rousseau in State v. Massey, which was tried in Union County on 7 May 1984. Judge Rousseau presided over both the instant case and Massey and adopted his findings of fact and rulings in the Massey case to deny Paige's motion to quash the jury panel in the instant case. For the reasons stated in this Court's opinion in State v. Massey, ___ N.C. ___, 342 S.E.2d 811 (1986) we find no error in denial of the challenge to the jury panel.