State v. Brunson

ARNOLD Chief, Judge.

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Defendant first assigns error to the court’s refusal to conduct a recorded charge conference. We disagree; the court’s refusal to conduct a recorded charge conference did not amount to reversible error.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1231(b) (1988) provides:

Before the arguments to the jury, the judge must hold a recorded conference on instructions out of the presence of the jury. At the conference the judge must inform the parties of the offenses, lesser included offenses, and affirmative defenses on which he will charge the jury and must inform them of what, if any, parts of…