Guilty plea; Aggravating factors; Prejudice

First-Degree Felony Murder, Second-Degree Murder, Assault With a Deadly Weapon with Intent to Kill Inflicting Serious Injury, Jury Instruction, Transferred Intent, Self-Defense

drug trafficking; discovery statutes; motion to dismiss; motion for sanctions; jury instruction

motion to suppress

sex offense with a child; indecent liberties with a child; felony child abuse by a sexual act; plain error; expert witness testimony; impermissible vouching

driving while impaired; sufficiency of the evidence that defendant was driving

First Amendment challenge; Harassment of a juror; Conspiracy to commit harassment of a juror; Content-neutral restriction; Intermediate scrutiny; Sufficiency of the evidence; Pretrial discovery obligations of a criminal defendant; Character evidence; Hearsay; and Jury instructions.

Jury trial; prosecutorial commenting on post-Miranda silence; prosecutorial question assuming a fact not in evidence; closing argument referencing excluded evidence

First-degree murder; premeditation and deliberation; no jury instruction on lesser-included offenses.

Denial of motion to dismiss for insufficiency of the evidence; trafficking in cocaine by possession; N.C. Gen Stat. 90-95(h)(3)(c)

improper jury instruction; plain error; consecutive sentences

Expert testimony; proximate causation

Driving While Impaired, Possession with Intent to Sell and Deliver, Motion to Dismiss, Sufficiency of Evidence, Appreciable Impairment

Interlocutory Appeal; Substantial Right; Failure to Include Statement of Grounds for Appellate Review; Lack of Appellate Jurisdiction

Interlocutory order- substantial right; motion to recuse; denial of access to records, NCGS 1-72.1; fragmentary appeals.

interlocutory appeal; Rule 12(b)(1); negligence; NIED; loss of services; punitive damages

appellate jurisdiction; Rules of Appellate Procedure; notice of appeal; service; Industrial Commission