sufficiency of indictment to confer subject-matter jurisdiction on trial court; using initials to name victim in indictment charging sex offense; motion for appropriate relief

Motion to withdraw guilty plea; factual basis; appellate jurisdiction.

issue is whether the trial court erred in sentencing juvenile defendant to LWOP and whether the sentence was constitutional

Allen charge; N.C. Gen. Stat. ? 15A-1235; jury instructions on further deliberations; statutory right to effective counsel in SBM proceedings

Motion to suppress; order entered out of term

issues include whether trial court committed plain error by failing to strike inadmissible polygraph testimony or give a curative instruction directing jury to disregard the same, or both; and whether defendant was denied effective assistance of counsel

Modification of probation; special conditions of probation; Anders brief; dismiss.

issues include whether trial court's findings of fact are supported by competent evidence; whether the court properly weighed mitigating evidence; whether the court applied the correct legal standard in imposing two consecutive LWOP sentences; and whether said sentences are constitutional

Probation revocation; Subject-matter jurisdiction; NCGS 15A-1344

Plea colloquy; probationary status; and N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1022.1(e).

parentage; paternity; assisted reproduction; child support obligation of sperm donor; choice of law; full faith and credit clause; trial court erred in concluding that full faith and credit dictated that North Carolina law applied to claim for child support; North Carolina choice of law rules require that North Carolina court apply Virginia's law of parentage to determine whether sperm donor owes child support to the donee where the insemination and conception occurred in Virginia

standing of relative to seek child custody; trial court erred in granting motion to dismiss for lack of standing under Rule 12(b)(6) where allegations in complaint and evidence submitted in support thereof showed that parents were unfit and had acted inconsistently with their constitutionally protected status as parents

grant of motion to dismiss was not error where defendant did not sign contract in an individual capacity; trial court's failure to rule on motion to amend or alter judgment was not preserved for appellate review

Governmental immunity, process, service of process, discontinuance, unnamed parties, motion to dismiss

Domestic violence protective order, personal relationship, judicial admission, illustrative evidence, prejudice.

child support; insufficient findings of fact; computation of gross income; credit for biological child

healthcare, managed care organization, local management entity, Medicaid, health care provider, contract, administrative law, summary judgment, services, utilization review

trial court properly granted all defendants' motions to exclude plaintiffs' sole standard-of-care expert witness and motions to dismiss pursuant to Rule 9(j) and for summary judgment