Noncompliance with the procedures of this Article may not be a basis for review of a conviction after the appeal period for the conviction has expired.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1027
Limitation on collateral attack on conviction
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 163 N.C. App. 191 - State v. Rhodes (2004)
Most recently applied in State v. Adkins (February 2018)
1973, c. 1286, s. 1; 1975, c. 166, s. 21; 1989, c. 290, s. 4.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: North Carolina General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain North Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.