Court Opinion

ID: 9781310
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-30 16:29:59.882491+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:34:24.070511
License: Public Domain

STEELMAN, Judge
concurring.
I fully concur with the majority opinion in this case. I write separately concerning the appellant’s final argument. It is crystal clear from the judgment entered by the trial court that the sentence imposed was from the presumptive range 2 As noted by the majority opinion, the argument made by counsel has been rejected by this Court on numerous prior occasions. This argument does not border on the frivolous; it is totally and completely frivolous. Defendant’s counsel should be personally sanctioned pursuant to Rule 34(a)(3) of the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure.

. Judge Gessner’s judgment stated that he made no written findings because the prison term was “within the presumptive range of sentences authorized under G.S. 15A-1340.17(c).” Defendant was found to be a prior record level V for felony sentencing. Based upon the version of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1340.17 that was in effect on the date defendant committed the offenses for which he was found guilty, a sentence of a minimum of 151 months and a maximum of 191 months imprisonment was a permitted sentence from the presumptive range.