IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA No. 299A18 Filed 14 June 2019 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. SAMUEL CALLEROS ALVAREZ

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. ___, 818 S.E.2d 178 (2018), finding no error in a judgment entered on 13 January 2017 by Judge Richard Kent Harrell in Superior Court, Lenoir County. Heard in the Supreme Court on 29 May 2019 in session in the State Capitol Building in the City of Raleigh.

Joshua H. Stein, Attorney General, by M. Denise Stanford, Special Deputy Attorney General, for the State.

Anne Bleyman for defendant-appellant.

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.