Rape of a child; First degree sexual offense; Sufficiency of the evidence; Jury instructions

Flight; action not part of normal behavior; prior record level substantially similar offense

Discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle in operation; Sufficiency of the indictment

Gang-related testimony; plain error; jury request to review trial testimony; failure to exercise discretion; prejudicial error

Armed robbery; Acting in concertg

Confrontation Clause; Hearsay; Prior Testimony; Voluntariness

Physical presence requirement of Confrontation Clause

Prayer for judgment continued; sex offender registration

Foreclosure; off-set defense

whether a city employee has the right to inspect confidential materials in his own employee personnel file pursuant to N.C.G.S. 160A-168(c)(1) and N.C.G.S. 160A-168(c1)(4)

Enforceability of a privilege tax imposed by the City on companies purportedly engaged in cyber-gambling; whether summary judgment was properly entered for the City on the companies' claim that the privilege tax violates the N.C. Constitution's prohibition on unjust and inequitable taxes.

Whether petitioner, which was not the original lender named in a promissory note executed by the borrower, was the holder of the note at the time of default and thus had authority to foreclose on respondent's property under the accompanying deed of trust.

Whether sentence reduction credits apply when determining the unconditional release dates of inmates who received eighty-year life sentences for commission of second-degree murder and second-degree burglary

Whether campus police arrest records are subject to the N.C. Public Records Act

Whether trafficking in prescription tablets and pills that contain an opium mixture classified under Schedule III of the N.C. Controlled Substances Act is punishable under N.C.G.S. ? 90-95(h)(4)

Whether defendant's Transcript of Plea and Transcript of Plea Hearing were ambiguous regarding the number of crimes for which he stipulated to existence of an aggravating factor

Legal malpractice; Statute of repose

Intervention as of right pursuant to Rule 24(a)(2); permissive intervention pursuant to Rule 24(b); estate beneficiary; estate personal representative?s powers and duties.