
    STATE of North Carolina v. Patricia Dawn ABSHIRE.
    No. 459A08.
    Supreme Court of North Carolina.
    December 11, 2008.
    J. Joy Strickland, Assistant Attorney General, James C. Gaither, Jr., District Attorney, for State of NC.
    James N. Freeman, Jr., Elkin, for Abshire.
    Prior report: ___ N.C.App. ___, 666 S.E.2d 657.
    ORDER
   Upon consideration of the petition filed by State of NC on the 3rd day of October 2008 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 11th day of December 2008."

Upon consideration of the petition for discretionary review, filed by State of NC on the 3rd day of October 2008 in this matter pursuant to G.S. 7A-31 and the Appellate Rule 16(b) as to issues in addition to those presented as the basis for the dissenting opinion in the Court of Appeals, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Court of Appeals: the petition for discretionary review as to additional issues is

"Allowed by order of the Court in conference, this the 11th day of December 2008."

Accordingly, the new brief of the State of NC shall be filed with this Court not more than 30 days from the date of certification of this order.  