Ceasing reunification efforts, permanency planning, custody of juveniles.

Permanency Planning Hearings; Reunification; Reasonable Efforts; Judicial Notice

Reunification; Permanency Planning Review Hearings; Constitutionally Protected Parental Status

Adjudication, Disposition, Guardianship

arbitration; interlocutory appeal; third-party beneficiary of a contract; equitable estoppel; sufficient findings of fact; novation

Interlocutory order, motion to dismiss, substantial right

Statute of limitations for voluntary dismissal, commencement of a civil action, Rule 3 North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, and issuance of a summons.

Warrants; Probable Cause; Preservation; Confrontation Clause; Prejudicial Error; Jury Instruction; Improper Statements of Counsel

Oral motion to recuse.

First-dgree murder, attempted first-degree murder; felony conspiracy to commit first degree murder; firing into an occupied operating vehicle; lying in wait; acting in concert; conspiracy.

Probation revocation; Activation of suspended sentence after expiration of a defendant's probationary period.

appellate jurisdiction; felony sentencing; probation; restitution

Possession and sale of cocaine; plain error; structural error; jury instructions on reasonable doubt standard and option to return not guilty verdict; incorrect offense dates on judgment forms

Serious injury by vehicle; hit and run with injury; impaired driving; defense of necessity; officer testimony on HGN test; officer testimony on BAC based on HGN test; plain error; sufficiency of evidence of serious injury

Robbery with a dangerous weapon; jury instructions; friend exception to mere presence rule

Probation revocation, good cause, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1344(f)

Statutory Sexual Offense; Indictments; Verdicts

1st degree murder conviction; Post-conviction DNA testing