State v. Robinson, 815 S.E.2d 377 (2018)
STATE
v.
Marcus Reymond ROBINSON
411A94-6
Supreme Court of North Carolina.
July 17, 2018
Robert T. Thompson, Assistant District Attorney, G. Robert Hicks, III, Assistant District Attorney, William P. Hart, Sr., Senior Deputy Attorney General, Danielle Marquis Elder, Special Deputy Attorney General, Robert C. Montgomery, Special Deputy Attorney General, Jonathan Babb, Special Deputy Attorney General, William R. West, District Attorney, for State of NC.
Malcolm Ray Hunter, Jr., Attorney at Law, Jay H. Ferguson, Attorney at Law, Durham, James E. Ferguson, II, Attorney at Law, Charlotte, Cassandra Stubbs, Attorney at Law, D. Clark Smith, Jr., Attorney at Law, Donald H. Beskind, Attorney at Law, Raleigh, Kenneth J. Rose, Attorney at Law, Durham, David Weiss, Attorney at Law, Brian W. Stull, Attorney at Law, for Robinson, Marcus Reymond.
Jonathan P. Babb, Special Counsel to Attorney General.
Edward Joseph Blocher, Jr., Attorney at Law, for Social Scientists.
Cynthia F. Adcock, Attorney at Law, for N.C. Council of Churches.
Janet Moore, Attorney at Law, for National Association for Public Defense.
Burton Craige, Attorney at Law, Raleigh, Narendra K. Ghosh, Attorney at Law, Chapel Hill, James E. Williams, Jr., Attorney at Law, Carrboro, for N.C. Advocates for Justice.
Jeffrey Gerrish, Attorney at Law, James P. Cooney, III, Attorney at Law, Charlotte, Gregory B. Craig, Attorney at Law, Alex T. Haskell, Attorney at Law, For Former Senior U.S. Military Officials.
John R. Mills, Attorney at Law, for Experts in Law and Implicit Bias.
James E. Coleman, Jr., Attorney at Law, for Becton, Charles, et al.
Robert P. Mosteller, Attorney at Law, for Professors John Charles Boger & Robert P. Mosteller.
Grady Jessup, Attorney at Law, for N.C. Association of Black Lawyers.
Lisa A. Bakale-Wise, Attorney at Law, Irving Joyner, Attorney at Law, Durham, for N.C. State Conference of the NAACP.
Carlos E. Mahoney, Attorney at Law, Durham, Jin Hee Lee, Attorney at Law, Pro Hac Vice, W. Kerrel Murray, Attorney at Law, Pro Hac Vice, for NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
Jeremy M. Falcone, Attorney at Law, Raleigh, for Former State and Federal Prosecutors.
*378The following order has been entered on the motion filed on the 16th of July 2018 by NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. for leave to file Amicus Curiae Brief:
"Motion Allowed by order of the Court in conference, this the 17th of July 2018."
Unless already submitted, the Amicus Brief shall be submitted to the court within the times allowed and in the manner provided by Appellate Rule 28(i).