Court Opinion

ID: 9592630
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:15:55.461024+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:06:56.667702
License: Public Domain

Justice Mitchell
concurring.
The result reached by the majority here is consistent with this Court’s decision in State v. Thomas, 325 N.C. 583, 386 S.E.2d 555 (1989). I dissented from the decision of the majority in Thomas, and I continue to believe that the reasoning of my dissent in that case was correct. Id. at 600-606, 386 S.E.2d at 564-68 (Mitchell, J., dissenting, joined by Webb, J.). However, the doctrine of stare decisis — which commands that courts abide by established binding precedent except in the most extraordinary circumstances — requires that I now accept Thomas as authoritative and concur in the decision of the majority in the present case.