Opinion
No. COA12–583.
2012-11-6
In the Matter of A.D.M.
Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Special Deputy Attorney General Gerald K. Robbins, for the State. Mary McCullers Reece for juvenile respondent appellant.
Appeal by respondent-juvenile from adjudication order entered 26 August 2011 and disposition order entered 13 December 2011 by Judge Rickye McKoy–Mitchell in Mecklenburg County District Court. Heard in the Court of Appeals 22 October 2012. Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Special Deputy Attorney General Gerald K. Robbins, for the State. Mary McCullers Reece for juvenile respondent appellant.
McCULLOUGH, Judge.
A.D.M. (“respondent”) appeals from orders adjudicating him a delinquent juvenile and placing him on probation. After careful review, we affirm.
On 14 March 2011, the State filed petitions alleging that respondent was a delinquent juvenile. On 26 August 2011, respondent was adjudicated delinquent for committing the offenses of first-degree rape, first-degree sex offense with a child, indecent liberties between children, and crime against nature. A disposition order was entered on 13 December 2011 placing respondent on thirty days of house arrest followed by twelve months of probation. Respondent gave timely notice of appeal.
Counsel appointed to represent respondent has been unable to identify any issue with sufficient merit to support a meaningful argument for relief on appeal and asks that this Court conduct its own review of the record for possible prejudicial error. Counsel has also shown to the satisfaction of this Court that she has complied with the requirements of Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967), and State v. Kinch, 314 N.C. 99, 331 S.E.2d 665 (1985), by advising respondent of his right to file written arguments with this Court and providing him with the documents necessary for him to do so.
Respondent has not filed any written arguments on his own behalf with this Court and a reasonable time in which he could have done so has passed. In accordance with Anders, we have fully examined the record to determine whether any issues of arguable merit appear therefrom. We have been unable to find any possible prejudicial error and conclude that the appeal is wholly frivolous.
No error. Judges HUNTER (ROBERT C.) and CALABRIA concur.
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