STATE v. SESSOMS

Michael F. Easley, Attorney General, by Debra C. Graves, Assistant Attorney General, for the State. Malcolm Ray Hunter, Jr., Appellate Defender, by Charles L. Alston, Jr., Assistant Appellate Defender, and Benjamin Sendor, Assistant Appellate Defender, for the defendant-appellant. Ferguson, Stein, Wallas, Adkins, Gresham Sumter, P.A., by Anita S. Hodgkiss for The North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers and The North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, amicus curiae.