State v. Starkey

628 S.E.2d 424 (2006)

STATE of North Carolina

v.

Michael Anthony STARKEY, Defendant.

No. COA05-1013.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 18, 2006.

Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Assistant Attorney General Christopher W. Brooks, for the State.

Appellate Defender Staples Hughes, by Assistant Appellate Defender Benjamin Dowling-Sendor, for defendant.

BRYANT, Judge.

The State appeals from an order entered 3 February 2005, granting the trial court's own motion for appropriate relief, vacating Michael Anthony Starkey's (defendant) sentence for having attained the status of an habitual felon and…