Court Opinion

ID: 9586533
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:12:26.169972+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:42.220624
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Justice Frye
concurring in result.
The Court’s decisions today in this case and in State v. Outlaw, 326 N.C. 467, 390 S.E.2d 366 (1990), follow naturally from this Court’s holding in State v. Holden, 321 N.C. 125, 161-62, 362 S.E.2d 513, 535-36 (1987), to which I dissented. While I continue to believe that Holden was incorrectly decided insofar as it held that a no contest plea and final judgment entered thereon constituted a conviction under N.C.G.S. § 15A-2000(e), it is now the law of this State, and I am bound thereby. Accordingly, I concur in the result reached by the Court.