COA98-718

Defendant acknowledges that the Supreme Court of North Carolina has held that a capital defendant has no common law right to allocution in a capital sentencing hearing in North Carolina, except to plead certain technical bars to conviction and punishment. State v. Green, 336 N.C. 142, 191, 443 S.E.2d 14, 42, cert. denied, 130 L.Ed.2d 547 (1994)). ................
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