NO. COA02-121   Filed: 18 March 2003
v.                        Durham County
                            Nos. 00 CRS 65482-85 JERMAINE
COVINGTON                 01 CRS 7945           Appeal by
defendant from judgments entered 31 October 2001 by Judge Narley
L. Cashwell in Durham County Superior Court. Heard in the Court
of Appeals 16 October 2002.       Megerian & Wells, by Jonathan
L. Megerian, for defendant appellant.       Jermaine Covington
(“defendant”) appeals from his convictions of two counts of
second-degree kidnapping and two counts of attempted robbery
with a dangerous weapon. For the reasons discussed herein, we
hold that defendant received a trial free from prejudicial
error.     The State presented evidence at trial tending to show
the following: On 25 October 2000, Maurice Ashby (“Maurice”)
encountered defendant, Harold Brandon (“Brandon”), and an
unidentified male (“the unidentified male”) at his home in
Durham, North Carolina (“Ashby house”). Defendant informed
Maurice that he “heard [Mauri