State v. Clark

HUNTER, Judge.

Marcus Jovan Clark (“defendant”) appeals from a judgment dated 18 September 2002 entered consistent with a jury verdict finding him guilty of statutory rape. Consequently, defendant was sentenced to a minimum term of imprisonment of 144 months and a maximum term of 182 months. As defendant’s responses to questions asked by the police about his age were not given while in custody and were admissible as admissions of a party-opponent, and further North Carolina’s statutory rape law has been held to not violate equal protection based upon marital status, we conclude there was no…