STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
v. Guilford County
No. 00CRS102709&
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BENJAMIN GERMAINE STEVENSON
Attorney General Roy A. Cooper, III, by Assistant Attorney
General Floyd M. Lewis, for the State.
William B. Gibson for defendant-appellant.
HUNTER, Judge.
Benjamin Germaine Stevenson (“defendant”) appeals from the
judgment revoking his probation and activating his suspended
sentence of fourteen to seventeen months' imprisonment, originally
imposed on 21 February 2002 upon defendant's guilty plea to one
count of taking indecent liberties with a minor. The trial court
revoked defendant's probation after he admitted to willfully and
without lawful excuse violating the terms of his probation as
alleged in three violation reports filed by his probation officer
in January, February, and March of 2003.
Counsel appointed to represent defendant has been unable to
identify any issue with sufficient merit to support a meaningfulargument for relief on appeal. Counsel presents two assignments of
error in his brief to this Court but shows that neither provides a
meritorious ground for appeal. Counsel asks that this Court
conduct its own review of the record for possible prejudicial
error. Counsel has shown to the satisfaction of this Court that he
has complied with the requirements of Anders v. California, 386
U.S. 738, 18 L. Ed. 2d 493 (1967), and State v. Kinch, 314 N.C. 99,
331 S.E.2d 665 (1985), by advising defendant of his right to file
written arguments with this Court and providing him with the
documents necessary to do so. Defendant has filed no written
arguments, and a reasonable time for him to have done so has
passed.
In accordance with Anders, we have fully examined the record
to determine whether any issues of arguable merit appear therefrom
and whether the appeal is wholly frivolous. We conclude the appeal
is frivolous. Furthermore, we have examined the record for
possible prejudicial errors and have found none.
Affirmed.
Judges WYNN and McCULLOUGH concur.
Report per Rule 30(e).
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