State v. Alshaif, 724 S.E.2d 597 (N.C. Ct. App. Feb. 21, 2012) (Padilla v. Kentucky, 130 S. Ct. 1743 (2010), does not apply retroactively); following United States v. Hong, 671 F.3d 1147 (10th Cir. 2011).

Note: North Carolina follows the retroactivity framework announced in Teague v. Lane, 489 U.S. 288 (1989), which provides that new rules of criminal procedure do not apply retroactively unless one of two exceedingly narrow exceptions are met"the decision is substantive rather than procedural or it is a watershed rule of criminal procedure. Alshaif, No. COA11-817, slip op. at 15 (quoting Whorton v. Bockting, 549 U.S. 406, 416 (2007)).