690 S.E.2d 558
No. COA09-1028.North Carolina Court of Appeals.
Filed January 19, 2010.
Guilford County No. 08 JB 166.
Appeal by Juvenile from an adjudication order entered 17 October 2008 by Judge James K. Roberson in District Court, Alamance County, and a disposition order entered 17 February 2009 by Judge Sherry F. Alloway in District Court, Guilford County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 30 December 2009.
Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Assistant Attorney General LaToya B. Powell, for the State.
Mary McCullers Reece for Juvenile-Appellant.
McGEE, Judge.
E.L. (Juvenile) appeals from orders adjudicating her delinquent for assault on a government official and placing her on Level One probation for a period of six months with various conditions imposed.
Juvenile’s counsel has filed a brief in which she states that “after repeated and close examination of the Record, and after extensive review of the relevant law, [she] is unable to identify an issue with sufficient merit to support a meaningful argument for relief on appeal.” Counsel requests that this Court conduct an independent review of the record for possible prejudicial error.
Counsel sent a letter to Juvenile on 24 August 2009 in which she advised of her inability to find error, of her request to this Court to conduct its own review, and of juvenile’s right to file her own written arguments directly with this Court. Counsel forwarded to juvenile a copy of the record on appeal, the transcript, and the brief. Juvenile has not submitted any arguments to the Court.
Juvenile’s counsel has substantially complied with the holdings 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). Pursuant to those decisions, we must determine from a full examination of the proceedings whether the appeal is “wholly frivolous.” Anders, 386 U.S. at 744, 18 L. Ed. 2d at 498. Pursuant to In re May, 153 N.C. App. 299, 301, 569 S.E.2d 704, 707 (2002) “an attorney for an indigent juvenile adjudicated to be delinquent may file a Anders brief in the appellate courts of this state.” Upon our full examination of the proceedings, we are unable to find any prejudicial error in the adjudication or disposition. Therefore, we determine that the appeal is wholly frivolous, and the orders of the trial court are hereby affirmed.
Affirmed.
Judges GEER and HUNTER, JR. concur.
Report per Rule 30(e).