Drug possession; sufficiency of evidence that seized item was controlled substance; authentication of controlled substance; possible contamination of substance; plain error; jury instructions on further deliberations; Allen charge

Capacity, competency, due process, involuntary commitment, not guilty by reason of insanity, plea

Single taking rule; prior record level calculation; prior conviction for possession of marijuana drug paraphernalia; all elements of present offense in prior offense; arrest judgment and new sentencing hearing

seizure under Fourth Amendment; defendant was seized under Fourth Amendment by officer's display of authority; traffic stop was not a voluntary encounter

motion to suppress, motion to dismiss, reasonable suspicion, offer of proof, police dog reliability

First-degree murder; innocence commission; Law of the Land clause; Due Process; Fourth Amendment; blood draw; DNA sample; ineffective assistance of counsel; inevitable discover; fruit of poisonous tree; coercion.

decedent-employee's workers' compensation benefits; marital status

Whether a landlord had a duty to protect a third party from harm caused by his tenants' dog.

Order of suspension for improperly serving as executor for non-relatives' estates, collecting substantial fees for such service, and failing to properly report the income, in violation of the Code of Judicial Conduct.

Appeal based on a dissent seeking review of the trial court's review and permanency planning order which eliminated reunification.

Whether the trial court abused its discretion in finding that two purchasers, the first of whom purchased a tract of real property at a nonjudicial foreclosure sale and the second of whom purchased the property from the initial purchaser, were not good faith purchasers for value.

Termination of parental rights; whether the district court made adequate findings of fact to support a termination of respondent-father's parental rights under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(2); whether the district court properly determined that termination of respondent-parents' parental rights under N.C.G.S. 7B-1110(a) was in the best interests of the children.

Whether the trial court violated defendant's due process rights when it failed to hold a second hearing to examine his competency to proceed immediately prior to trial.

Defendant appeals the Court of Appeals' decision finding the trial court did not err in denying defendant's request for an instruction on voluntary intoxication.

In armed robbery case where co-defendants sought to sever trial, Court of Appeals erred by applying standard of error preservation for severance of offenses rather than severance of defendants.

Whether the evidence showed that defendant committed both assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and assault by strangulation.

Whether the Court of Appeals erred by not applying the standard for determining the existence of and showing of prejudice for a violation of the defendant's rights under the Constitution of the United States.

Content of permanent injunction order; Rule 65; interlocutory appeal; injunction pending appeal; Rule 62(c)