Whether the State presented sufficient evidence that a rock-like substance found in defendant's hotel room was heroin even though the State did not conduct a scientifically valid chemical analysis of the substance.

Appeal from district and superior court orders granting defendant's motions to suppress and dismissing a charge of driving while impaired; whether the Court of Appeals majority erred by (1) concluding that police had probable cause to arrest and charge defendant with driving while impaired and (2) reversing and remanding the lower courts' orders to the contrary.

Appeal from defendant's convictions for child sexual offenses following the trial court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence of images recovered from a USB thumb drive owned by him; extent to which the private-search doctrine authorized police to conduct a warrantless search of data stored on the thumb drive; whether there was probable cause for police to obtain a warrant to conduct a further search of the thumb drive.

DMV, authority to act, chemical analysis, affidavit, NC Gen. Stat. section 20-16.2

Electronic Discovery; Motion to Compel; Forensic Examination; Attorney-Client Privilege; Work-Product Immunity

juvenile court, Chapter 7B, UCCJEA, transfer of jurisdiction

Termination of parental rights; neglect, NCGS 7B-1111(a)(1); probability of future neglect; reasonable progress, NCGS 7B-1111(a)(2)

Release of police body-camera recordings, abuse of discretion, gag orders, First Amendment

Attorney discipline; standard of review; inherent authority of the court, NCGS 5A-15(a); representations to the court; conduct calling the court into disrepute.

power of sale foreclosure; anti-deficiency statutes; right to foreclose under the instrument; enjoining mortgage sale on equitable grounds

Office of Administrative Hearings; substantial prejudice; certificate of need; department of health and human services; standard of review; comparative analysis; MRI; agency; criteria; conforming; deference; adverse inference; destruction of evidence; cross appeal; statutory compliance

Bond forfeiture
Exclusive relief
Criminal process

Habitual Larceny
Essential Elements
Arraignment
Authority to stipulate

competency hearing; competency to stand trial; due-process violation; bona-fide-doubt inquiry; retrospective competency hearing

motion to withdraw plea; motion for appropriate relief; no manifest injustice;

Probation Revocation; Consent to District Court Jurisdiction; Petition for Writ of Certiorari

Sex offender registration, N.C. Gen. Stat. 14-27.7, N.C. Gen. Stat. 14-208/7, definition of business day, insufficient evidence of willful failure to return an address verification form

robbery with a dangerous weapon, lesser included offense, common law robbery

Satellite-based monitoring; Lack of evidence; Court of Appeals panels bound by earlier panel decisions