State v. Applewhite

Summary

The Court affirmed the convictions and sentences, holding that the human-trafficking statute permits multiple convictions for distinct violations involving the same victim and that the indictments sufficiently tracked the statute. The Court also held that the trial court erred by failing to compare the federal firearms conviction with a North Carolina offense when calculating defendant’s prior-record level, but the error was harmless because the convictions were substantially similar and the sentence would not change.