plain error; relevance, evidence; expert testimony

Impaired driving under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-139.1; suppressing breath test results is error in a criminal prosecution for impaired driving where such results are relevant and admissible even though analyst's Affidavit and Revocation Report contains an omission that would render it 'improperly executed' for purposes of a civil drivers' license revocation proceeding initiated by DMV

N.C. Gen.Stat. sec. 14-87; robbery with a dangerous weapon

jury note; constitutional right to an impartial jury; constitutional right to a fair trial; constitutional right to presence, Rule 403, NCGS 15A-1234

Rape Shield Statute, Offers of Proof

McBryde Presumption

Mandatory withdrawal of appointed counsel

Attorney discipline; censure; supervision of non-attorneys; real estate closings; Rule of Professional Conduct 1.3, Rule of Professional Conduct 1.15-2(m); Rule of Professional Conduct 1.4(a)

Equitable distribution; marital debt; student loan debt

Interpretation of consent judgment

Whether appeal from an administrative agency's order on petition for judicial review of EMC's declaratory ruling interpreting application of groundwater protection rules to power plant coal ash ponds that received initial permits to operate before 1984 should be dismissed for mootness.

Disposition order setting conditions for mother's visitation with minor children under N.C.G.S. 7B-905.1; whether the trial court erred in imposing costs of supervised visitation on the mother without first determining the mother's ability to pay those costs

Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court abused its discretion by failing to hold a hearing to inquire whether a GAL should be appointed to represent the mother pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1101.1(c)

Workers' Compensation; whether injury sustained by an employee while working at another business arose out of and occurred in the course of his employment with defendant

Application of N.C.G.S. 14-306.4, prohibiting operation of electronic machines that conduct or promote a sweepstakes through use of an entertaining display, to plaintiffs' marketing system; whether the challenged system is exempt because it involves a game of skill, rather than a game of chance; whether the trial court erred in granting plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of gambling laws against them; whether appellate court has jurisdiction to hear sheriff's interlocutory appeal from the preliminary injunction because the appeal affects a substantial right

Whether the trial court committed prejudicial error by giving a jury instruction that constituted an opinion on a question of fact in violation of N.C.G.S. 15A-1222 and 15A-1232

Whether an indictment charging defendant with larceny was fatally defective because it did not allege that the church co-owner of the property has the legal ability to own property; whether the State presented sufficient evidence of defendant's intent to commit felony larceny by showing that he made an unlawful entry and property was later found missing from the premises

Reasonable suspicion to make investigatory stop of defendant; motion to suppress evidence seized as a result

Motion to suppress evidence; whether the district court had authority to order a general search for weapons of defendant's person, home, and vehicle pursuant to an ex parte Domestic Violence Order of Protection