State v. Marcoplos

WYNN, Judge.

Defendants Mark W. Marcoplos, Nancy Katherine Woods, Pascal L. Pitts, Laura Winbush Vanderbeck, James Edwin Warren, and Ruth C. Zalph appeal from convictions of second-degree trespass. On appeal, we uphold defendants’ convictions.

The State’s evidence tends to show defendants entered during business hours the lobby of a building located at 411 Fayetteville Street Mall in Raleigh, known as the CP&L Building. Their stated intent was to address Carolina Power & Light, Inc.’s (CP&L) chief executive officer, William Cavanaugh, to protest the lack of open hearings about CP&L’s storage of…