IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA 2021-NCSC-126 No. 408A20 Filed 29 October 2021 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. MICHAEL EUGENE WRIGHT

Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, 273 N.C. App. 188, 848 S.E.2d 252 (2020), affirming a judgment entered on 26 April 2019 by Judge Carla Archie in Superior Court, Cleveland County.

Heard in the Supreme Court on 31 August 2021.

Joshua H. Stein, Attorney General, by John R. Green Jr., Special Deputy Attorney General, for the State-appellee.

Mary McCullers Reece for defendant-appellant.

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.