STATE v. RUFFIN

No. COA13-744.

754 S.E.2d 685 (2014)

STATE of North Carolina v. Locreaig Donnell RUFFIN.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

March 4, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorney General Roy Cooper , by Special Deputy Attorney General Jennie Wilhelm Hauser , for the State.

McCotter Ashton, P.A., New Bern, by Rudolph A. Ashton, III , and Kirby H. Smith, III , for defendant-appellant.


STEELMAN, Judge.

Where defense counsel informed the trial court that defendant had decided to reject a plea offer and proceed to trial on a charge of first-degree rape, the trial court's failure to inform defendant of the increased maximum sentence for second-degree rape under N.C. Gen.Stat. § 15A-1340.17(f) was not error. The trial court did not err in allowing the prosecutor to cross-examine defendant about prior out of state criminal convictions or in denying...

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