STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. GARY F. MELLO

No. 490A09

(Filed 8 October 2010)

Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, 200 N.C. App.-, 684 S.E.2d 483 (2009), finding no error in a judgment entered on 10 December 2007 by Judge V. Bradford Long in Superior Court, Forsyth County. Heard in the Supreme Court 24 March 2010.

Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Derrick C. Mertz, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

James R. Glover for defendant-appellant.