State v. Nunez

STEELMAN, Judge.

The State introduced sufficient circumstantial evidence for the trafficking in marijuana charges to be submitted to the jury. Pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-95(h), when a defendant is convicted of multiple drug trafficking offenses at the same term of court, the trial court has the discretion to run the sentences either consecutively or concurrently.

I. Factual and Procedural Background

On 27 June 2006, a police drug dog alerted the Greenville Police to two suspicious packages at the United Parcel Service (UPS) hub in Greenville. A search warrant was obtained, and the packages…