State v. Oates

EDMUNDS, Justice.

The Court of Appeals concluded that the State’s notice of appeal, filed seven days after the trial judge in open court orally granted defendant’s pretrial motion to suppress but three months before the trial judge issued his corresponding written order of suppression, was untimely. We hold that, under Rule 4 of the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure and N.C.G.S. § 15A-1448, the window for the filing of a written notice of appeal in a criminal case opens on the date of rendition of the judgment or order and closes fourteen days after entry of the judgment or order.…