Opinion
No. COA11–1368.
2012-05-1
STATE of North Carolina v. Osayamen Lakeisha JEGEDE.
Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Assistant Attorney General Thomas H. Moore, for the State. Glenn Gerding, for defendant-appellant.
Appeal by defendant from judgments entered 18 May 2011 by Judge Mark E. Klass in Forsyth County Superior Court. Heard in the Court of Appeals 24 April 2012. Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Assistant Attorney General Thomas H. Moore, for the State. Glenn Gerding, for defendant-appellant.
CALABRIA, Judge.
Osayamen Lakeisha Jegede (“defendant”) appeals from judgments entered upon jury verdicts finding her guilty of robbery with a dangerous weapon, second-degree kidnapping, conspiracy to commit armed robbery, and assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury. We find no error.
Defendant was sentenced to an active term of a minimum of 45 to a maximum of 63 months in the North Carolina Department of Correction for robbery with a dangerous weapon. The trial court consolidated the remaining convictions into one judgment, sentenced defendant to a consecutive term of a minimum of 20 to a maximum of 30 months in the North Carolina Department of Correction, which the court suspended, and ordered defendant be placed on supervised probation for 36 months. Defendant appeals.
On appeal, defendant's appellate counsel states he is “unable to identify any issues with sufficient merit to support a meaningful argument for relief on appeal.” Counsel requests that this Court “conduct a full examination of the record on appeal for possible error to determine whether counsel overlooked any justiciable issue.” In accordance with the holdings of Anders v. California, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967), and State v. Kinch, 314 N .C. 99, 331 S.E.2d 665 (1985), counsel wrote a letter to defendant on 8 December 2011, advising defendant of counsel's inability to find error, of counsel's request for this Court to conduct an independent review of the record, and of defendant's right to file her own arguments directly with this Court. Counsel sent defendant copies of the brief filed on her behalf, the record on appeal, and the transcripts of her trial proceedings. Counsel further indicated that upon his receipt of the State's appellate brief, he would send a copy to defendant. Defendant has not filed any written arguments on her own behalf with this Court and a reasonable time in which she could have done so has passed.
We hold that defendant's counsel has fully complied with the holdings in Anders and Kinch. Accordingly, we must fully “review the record for any prejudicial error.” Kinch, 314 N.C. at 102, 331 S.E.2d at 666. In accordance with Anders, we have fully examined the record and find no error or issues of arguable merit. Accordingly, we conclude the appeal is wholly frivolous, and find no error.
No error. Judges STROUD and BEASLEY concur.
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