sexual offenses with a minor; motion to suppress; validity of search warrant; lay opinion testimony; use of victim to describe witness; ineffective assistance of counsel

Motion to Suppress

Anders review; guilty pleas; consolidated sentence

Probation violation

Obtaining property by false pretenses; preservation of evidentiary challenge; horse swapping on appeal; motion to dismiss; sufficiency of evidence identifying defendant as perpetrator of offense

Summary judgment; Professional malpractice; Justifiable reliance

Child Custody; N.C. Gen. Stat. 50A-207; Declining Jurisdiction as Inconvenient Forum

Administrative Procedures Act; Rule Making; Exemption; N.C.G.S. Sec. 135-5(a3); Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System; State Agency Adoption of Rules and Regulations

Public Utility

Foreclosure; Deed of Trust; Holders of Debt

Permanency planning order; guardianship; reunification following revocation of voluntary relinquishment.

Administrative Procedures Act; Rule Making; Exemption; N.C.G.S. Sec. 135-5(a3);
Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System; State Agency Adoption of Rules and Regulations1

Administrative Procedures Act; Rule Making; Exemption; N.C.G.S. Sec. 135-5(a3); Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System; State Agency Adoption of Rules and Regulations

motion to intervene

interlocutory order

domestic violence protection order; attorney's fees

Administrative law; superior court petition for judicial review of final agency decision; impermissible collateral attack on prior agency decision; nonjurisdictional appellate rules violations; Rule 34(b) sanctions.

Jury instruction; disjunctive; motion to dismiss; effective assistance of counsel

Anders v. California, probation revocation, post-conviction proceedings