permanent custody, visitation, required findings, fit and proper person

motion to dismiss, jury instructions, felony speeding to elude arrest

Motion to Dismiss; Indecent Liberties with a Child; Statements for Medical Diagnosis or Treatment; Expert Witness Testimony; First Degree Kidnapping; Jury Instructions; Sexual Offense with a Child Prior Bad Acts; Cross Examination.

aggravating factors; notice; waiver; plea agreement

permissible scope of knock and talk; officers lacked warrant or probable cause to conduct search and no exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement applied; application of exclusionary rule to fruits of the poisonous tree

acting as an unlicensed bondsman or runner; issue preservation; motions to dismiss; State v. Golder; failure to invoke plain error review

undocumented immigrant; motion for appropriate relief; ineffective assistance of counsel; Padilla v. Kentucky; cancellation of removal; inadmissibility; removal; prior orders

criminal defendant?s right to counsel, right to conflict-free counsel, conflict of interest arising from defense counsel?s representation of municipal police department, trial court?s duty to inquire into defense counsel?s possible conflict of interest

Franks hearing; false and misleading statements; bad faith; no probable cause to issue search warrant;

Limited criminal immunity in drug overdose cases; subject matter jurisdiction vs. immunity from prosecution; waiver; plain error

writ of certiorari; factual basis for guilty plea; multiple counts of assault

Admissibility of evidence

Embezzlement, Jury Instructions

Legislative Grant of Authority by Charter; Open Meetings Law; Summary Judgment

Rule 12(b)(1); Rule 12(b)(6); Standing; Declaratory Judgment.

Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court abused its discretion by concluding that terminating respondents' parental rights was in the best interests of the juveniles.

Appeal from an order terminating respondent-mother's parental rights; whether the evidence supports the trial court's findings of fact and whether the findings of fact support the conclusion that respondent-mother's parental rights in the juveniles should be terminated pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(6) (2019).

Termination of parental rights; best interests; abuse of discretion standard of review; parent-child bond not a bar to termination.

Termination of parental rights; no-merit brief.