STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
v. Craven County
No. 02 CrS 57660
COREY LOPEZ JOHNSON
Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Assistant Attorney General
Lisa Granberry Corbett, for the State.
Adrian M. Lapas for defendant-appellant.
LEVINSON, Judge.
Defendant pled guilty on 14 July 2003 to felony breaking and
entering a motor vehicle and to habitual felon status. The plea
agreement provided for sentencing within the presumptive range as
a Class C offense, Level IV offender. The trial court sentenced
defendant within the presumptive range to a minimum term of 126
months and a maximum term of 161 months.
Defendant requests this Court in accordance with 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) to review the record for possible prejudicial
error. Counsel has complied with the notification and briefing
requirements of those cases. Defendant has not filed his ownwritten arguments.
In North Carolina, a defendant's right to appeal in a
criminal proceeding is purely a creation of state statute. State
v. Pimental, 153 N.C. App. 69, 72, 568 S.E.2d 867, 869, disc.
review denied, 356 N.C. 442, 573 S.E.2d 163 (2002). A defendant
who pleads guilty or no contest to a crime may appeal and present
only the following issues: (1) whether the sentence is supported
by the evidence but only if the minimum term of imprisonment does
not fall within the presumptive range; (2) whether the sentence
results from an incorrect finding of the defendant's prior record
level under N.C.G.S. § 15A-1340.14 or the defendant's prior
conviction level under N.C.G.S. § 15A-1340.21; (3) whether the
sentence contains a type of sentence disposition that is not
authorized by N.C.G.S. § 15A-1340.17 or N.C.G.S. § 15A-1340.23 for
the defendant's class of offense and prior record or conviction
level; (4) whether the sentence contains a term of imprisonment
that is for a duration not authorized by N.C.G.S. § 15A-1340.17 or
N.C.G.S. § 15A-1340.23 for the defendant's class of offense and
prior record or conviction level; (5) whether the trial court
improperly denied defendant's motion to suppress; and (6) whether
the trial court improperly denied defendant's motion to withdraw
his guilty plea. State v. Jamerson, 161 N.C. App. 527, 528-29, 588
S.E.2d 545, 546-47 (2003). Only issues (2), (3) and (4) are
applicable in the case at bar.
We have reviewed the record for possible error arising out of
these appealable issues. We conclude the prior record level iscorrectly determined, the sentence disposition is valid, and the
sentence duration is authorized.
No error.
Judges TIMMONS-GOODSON and CALABRIA concur.
Report per Rule 30(e).
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