
    STATE of North Carolina v. Lorenzo Lee POPE and Demetri Monte Bell.
    No. 212A04.
    Supreme Court of North Carolina.
    August 12, 2004.
    Nora Henry Hargrove, for Lorenzo Lee Pope.
    David J. Adinolfi, II, Assistant Attorney General, Howard S. Boney, Jr., District Attorney, for State.
    Richard Jester, for Demetri Monte Bell.
    ORDER
   Upon consideration of the notice of appeal from the North Carolina Court of Appeals, filed by Defendant (Pope) on the 10th day of May 2004 in this matter pursuant to G.S. 7A-30 (constitutional question), the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Court of Appeals: the notice of appeal is

"Dismissed ex mero motu by order of the Court in conference, this the 12th day of August 2004."  