This Article applies to criminal offenses in North Carolina, other than impaired driving under G.S. 20-138.1 and failure to comply with control measures under G.S. 130A-25, that occur on or after October 1, 1994. This Article does not apply to violent habitual felons sentenced under Article 2B of Chapter 14 of the General Statutes.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1340.10
Applicability of structured sentencing
Applied in 27 court decisions — leading case United States v. Simmons (2011)
Most recently applied in 245 N.C. App. 469 - State v. Bowlin (February 2016)
1993, c. 538, s. 1; 1994, Ex
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.