STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. THOMAS SHANDELL STOKLEY JR (2025)

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. THOMAS SHANDELL STOKLEY, JR., Defendant.

No. COA25-249

Decided: September 17, 2025

Panel consisting of Chief Judge DILLON and Judges ARROWOOD and GRIFFIN.

Appellate Defender Glenn Gerding, by Assistant Appellate Defender Emily Holmes Davis for the defendant-appellant. Attorney General Jeff Jackson, by Special Deputy Attorney General Dorian Woolastan, for the State.

Defendant Thomas Shandell Stokley, Jr., appeals judgments entered against him consistent with jury verdicts convicting him of crimes including possession of a firearm by a felon and upon his guilty plea to habitual felon status.

On appeal he challenges his conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon under Section 14-415.1 of our General Statutes, arguing that the statute is facially unconstitutional under both our federal and state constitutions. However, a panel of our Court has recently held that Section 14-415.1 is facially constitutional under both our state and federal constitutions. See State v. Nanes, __ N.C. App. __, 912 S.E.2d 202, 209 (2025). We are bound by that holding. See In re Civil Penalty, 324 N.C. 373, 384 (1989). Accordingly, we conclude that Defendant received a fair trial, free of reversible error.

NO ERROR.

Report per Rule 30(e).

PER CURIAM.

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