Legal Opinion

State v. Adkins

Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Decided February 20, 2018No. COA17-715Published

1Opinion of the Court

HUNTER, JR., Robert N., Judge.

Justin Wayne Adkins ("Defendant") appeals from judgments entered pursuant to his Alford plea.1 Because Defendant fails to allege or show any prejudice arising from the trial court's non-compliance with the procedural requirements of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1022(b) (2015) in accepting his plea, we affirm. We remand to the trial court for correction of two clerical errors in the judgment entered in 16 CRS 51049.

I. Factual and Procedural History

On 28 November 2016, a Stokes County Grand Jury returned true bills of indictment charging Defendant with three counts of…

2Cases cited24 opinions

  1. Anders v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  3. North Carolina v. AlfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  4. State v. KinchSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1985
  5. State v. McCoyCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2005

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