Negligence; directed verdict; proximate cause.

Board of adjustment; land use ordinance; use variance; N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160D-705(d)

Involuntary dismissal; Rule 41(b); waiver

Jury Instructions; Preservation; Plain Error Review; Opium Trafficking; Lesser Included Charges; No Error

limiting instruction, no plain error, sex offender registration

Sufficient foundation for expert witness; fingerprint identification; Rule 702(a)

jury selection, Rule 401, Rule 403, Rule 702, "Round trip time" cell phone location data

Authentication, preservation, motion to dismiss, jury instructions

Motion to Suppress; vehicle search; custodial interrogation

motion to dismiss; de novo; armed robbery; dangerous weapon; capable of endangering or threatening a life; permissive inference; substantial evidence; jury instructions; no error.

misdemeanor communicating threats conviction, motion for continuance, Constitutional right to prepare a defense

lease; survivor of the lease; breach of contract; scrivener's error; parol evidence

Defamation, libel, civil tort

Sign Ordinance Violation;
Notice;
Right to Cure;
Abatement;
Mootness;
Judgement on the Pleadings;

N.C.R. App. P. 3.1(e); N.C.G.S. § 7B-1111(a)(1), (a)(2); N.C.G.S. § 7B-1110(a)

Rule 60(b), voluntary dismissal with prejudice, abuse of discretion

restrictive covenants; North Carolina Planned Community Act

Easement; Declaratory Judgment; Summary Judgment; Jurisdiction; Motion to Dismiss; Dismissed.

Indecent liberties