State v. Bunch

689 S.E.2d 866 (2010)

STATE of North Carolina

v.

Kyle Jaron BUNCH.

No. 203A09.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 12, 2010.

Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Steven M. Arbogast, Special Deputy Attorney General, for the State.

Staples S. Hughes, Appellate Defender, by Benjamin Dowling-Sendor, Assistant Appellate Defender, for defendant-appellant.

BRADY, Justice.

In Neder v. United States, 527 U.S. 1, 119 S.Ct. 1827, 144 L.Ed.2d 35 (1999), the Supreme Court of the United States applied harmless error analysis to the trial court's instructional omission of elements of a crime. We apply the harmless…