
    STATE of North Carolina v. Eric Douglas HICKS.
    No. 396P15.
    Supreme Court of North Carolina.
    Jan. 28, 2016.
    Charlotte G. Blake, Boone, for Hicks, Eric Douglas.
    Joseph E. Herrin, Special Deputy Attorney General, for State of North Carolina.
    Robert S. Banks, District Attorney, for State of North Carolina.
    ORDER
   Upon consideration of the petition filed on the 24th of November 2015 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 28th of January 2016."  