
    STATE of North Carolina v. Walter Columbus SIMMONS
    No. 292P17
    Supreme Court of North Carolina.
    December 7, 2017
    Sterling Rozear, Attorney at Law, for Simmons, Walter Columbus.
    Creecy C. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, C. Ricky Bowman, District Attorney, for State of North Carolina.
    ORDER
   Upon consideration of the Petition for Discretionary Review filed by the State on the 15th day of September 2017, the Court allows the State's Petition for Discretionary Review for the limited purpose of remanding this case to the Court of Appeals for reconsideration in light of our decision in State v. Sandra Meshell Brice , 370 N.C. 244, 806 S.E.2d 32 (2017).

By order of the Court in conference, this the 7th day of December 2017.  