
    STATE of North Carolina v. Sydney Shakur MERCER
    No. 257PA18
    Supreme Court of North Carolina.
    December 5, 2018.
    Grady L. Balentine, Jr., Special Deputy Attorney General, Daniel O'Brien, Assistant Attorney General, Mary Carla Babb, Assistant Attorney General, R. Andrew Murray, District Attorney, for State of North Carolina
    Daniel K. Shatz, Assistant Appellate Defender, Sydney Shakur Mercer, for Mercer, Sydney Shakur.
    ORDER
   Upon consideration of the petition filed by State of NC on the 21st of August 2018 for Writ of Supersedeas of the judgment of the Court of Appeals, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Court of Appeals:

"Allowed by order of the Court in conference, this the 5th of December 2018."

Upon consideration of the petition filed on the 11th of September 2018 by State of NC in this matter for discretionary review of the decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to G.S. 7A-31, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Court of Appeals:

Therefore the case is docketed as of the date of this order's certification. Briefs of the respective parties shall be submitted to this Court within the times allowed and in the manner provided by Appellate Rule 15(g)(2).  