STATE v. TAYLOR

No. COA02-440.

576 S.E.2d 114 (2003)

STATE of North Carolina v. Christopher Cornelius TAYLOR, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

February 18, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Assistant Attorney General Anne M. Middleton, for the State.

Richard E. Jester, Louisberg, for the defendant-appellant.


WYNN, Judge.

In this appeal, we are constrained to hold under North Carolina law, the trial court erred by entering three judgments on habitual felony status, and sentencing defendant consecutively upon that status alone. See State v. Patton, 342 N.C. 633, 466 S.E.2d 708 (1996). Accordingly, we vacate the judgments entered by the trial court purporting to sentence defendant on obtaining the...

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