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declining to adopt an interpretation that would have rendered portions of a statute “superfluous or nonsensical”
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No. 316P15.
11-05-2015
The ESTATE OF Jerry JACOBS, The Estate of Ann Shepard, the Estate of Connie Tindall, and The Estate of Joe (William Dallas) Wright v. STATE of North Carolina.
James E. Ferguson, II, Charlotte, for Jacobs, Jerry. Christina L. Trice, for Jacobs, Jerry. Irving Joyner, Durham, for Jacobs, Jerry. Amar Majmundar, Special Deputy Attorney General, for State of North Carolina. Olga Vysotskaya de Brito, Assistant Attorney General, for State of North Carolina.
James E. Ferguson, II, Charlotte, for Jacobs, Jerry.
Christina L. Trice, for Jacobs, Jerry.
Irving Joyner, Durham, for Jacobs, Jerry.
Amar Majmundar, Special Deputy Attorney General, for State of North Carolina.
Olga Vysotskaya de Brito, Assistant Attorney General, for State of North Carolina.
ORDER
Upon consideration of the petition filed on the 8th of September 2015 by Plaintiffs 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 5th of November 2015.”