
    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 conditional petition filed on the 28th of September 2017 by Defendant 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:

"Denied by order of the Court in conference, this the 7th of December 2017."  