Court Opinion

ID: 9600143
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:24:38.502421+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:04:34.443418
License: Public Domain

WYNN, Judge
concurring.
While I concur in the result, I write separately to express my displeasure with this strict application of the Rules of Appellate Procedure to this pro se appellant. However, in Viar v. N.C. Dep’t of Transp., 359 N.C. 400, 402, 610 S.E.2d 360, 361 (2005),1 our Supreme *688Court admonished this Court to avoid applying Rule 2 of the Rules of Appellate Procedure to grant review where the appellant has violated our Rules of Appellate Procedure — even in instances where a party’s Rules violations neither impede comprehension of the issues on appeal nor frustrate the appellate process. Because this Court must follow the dictates of Viar, I must concur that Defendant’s failure to comply with several Rules of Appellate Procedure mandates the dismissal of this appeal.

. “It is not the role of the appellate courts ... to create an appeal for an appellant. . . . [T]he Rules of Appellate Procedure must be consistently applied; otherwise, the Rules become meaningless[.]” Viar, 359 N.C. at 402, 610 S.E.2d at 361.