State v. Sellars

CALABRIA, Judge.

The Supreme Court of North Carolina remanded this case for reconsideration. We hold the trial court’s error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt and preserve defendant’s sentence as determined by the trial court.

The facts described in State v. Sellers [sic], 155 N.C. App. 51, 574 S.E.2d 101 (2002) are repeated in this opinion. The State’s evidence showed that just before 2 a.m. on 28 October 1999, Randy Lee Sellars (“defendant”) entered the Pantry Convenience Store in Graham, North Carolina and told the clerk to call the police because he needed to speak to a law man.…