IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA No. 146A18 Filed 26 October 2018 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. KURT DEION FREDERICK

Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, ___ N.C. App. ___, 814 S.E.2d 855 (2018), affirming an order entered on 7 June 2016 by Judge W. Osmond Smith, III in Superior Court, Wake County. Heard in the Supreme Court on 1 October 2018.

Joshua H. Stein, Attorney General, by J. Aldean Webster III, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Glenn Gerding, Appellate Defender, and Amanda S. Hitchcock, Assistant Appellate Defender, for defendant-appellant.

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.