Court Opinion

ID: 9803766
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 15:58:47.343489+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:03:19.340619
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Judge STEELMAN,
concurring in the result in a separate opinion.
I concur in the result reached by the majority in this case, but write separately because it is inappropriate to invoke Rule 2 of the Rules of Appellate Procedure as to defendant’s first argument. It cannot be a “manifest injustice” or the expediting of a “decision in the public interest” to consider an argument made by defendant under a statute that was inapplicable to the offenses for which defendant was tried. See N.C. R. App. P. 2; see also S.L. 2011-268 § 26, eff. Dec. 1, 2011.