STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
v. Forsyth County
No. 97 CRS 17129
TAMEKA LATRICE MCLEAN
Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Assistant Attorney General
Kristine L. Lanning, for the State.
Robert W. Ewing for defendant-appellant.
EAGLES, Chief Judge.
Tameka Latrice McClean (“defendant”) was convicted of
conspiracy to commit robbery in February 1998. The trial court
imposed a suspended sentence of twenty-two to thirty-six months
imprisonment and placed defendant on supervised probation for a
period of three years.
A probation violation hearing was held on 3 April 2000 based
on defendant's alleged failure to satisfy the monetary obligations
of probation, leaving her place of residence in Winston-Salem
without notifying her probation officer, missing a scheduled visit
with her probation officer, and failure to obtain her General
Equivalency Diploma during the first nine months of probation. Ather revocation hearing, defendant admitted to willful violations of
the probation conditions except the missed office visit. The trial
court found that “defendant absconded probation on July 14th of
2000 and was gone until January 29th and did not turn herself in.
The Court finds this to be willful and without lawful excuse.” In
the written judgment revoking probation, the trial court found all
the violations alleged in the violation report. The trial court
activated defendant's suspended sentence. Defendant appeals.
Counsel appointed to represent defendant on appeal has filed
an Anders brief indicating that he is unable to identify an issue
with sufficient merit to support a meaningful argument for relief
on appeal. He asks that this Court conduct its own review of the
record for possible prejudicial error. Counsel has filed
documentation with this Court showing that he has complied with the
requirements of Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 18 L. Ed. 2d
493, reh'g denied, 388 U.S. 924, 18 L. Ed. 2d 1377 (1967), and
State v. Kinch, 314 N.C. 99, 331 S.E.2d 665 (1985), by advising
defendant of her right to file written arguments with this Court
and providing her with a copy of the documents pertinent to her
appeal. Defendant has filed no additional arguments of her own
with this Court and a reasonable time for such arguments has
passed.
In accordance with Anders, we have fully examined the record
to determine whether any issues of arguable merit exist or whether
the appeal is wholly frivolous. Since the trial court had grounds
to revoke defendant's probation and activate her sentence due toher failure to satisfy monetary obligations of probation and her
failure to obtain her General Equivalency Diploma during the first
nine months of her probation, we conclude this appeal is frivolous.
Accordingly, the judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.
Judges TIMMONS-GOODSON and McCULLOUGH concur.
Report per Rule 30(e).
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