Second degree murder; admission of Rule 404(b) evidence; proper purpose for Rule 404(b) evidence; sufficiency of evidentiary foundation for Rule 404(b) evidence; motion to dismiss; sufficiency of evidence; malice; improper closing arguments

Heroin trafficking; denial of motion to suppress; waiver of argument not asserted in trial court; denial of motion to dismiss; sufficiency of evidence of possession

Anders brief; no non-frivolous issues on appeal

ineffective assistance of counsel; pre-trial motion to suppress; plain error

motion to suppress; Anders brief; substantial assistance

Statutory right to confrontation at probation violation hearings, N.C. Gen. Stat. 15A-1345(e); absconding from supervision, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1343(b)(3a); clerical error in judgment revoking probation.

modifying custody order; substantial change of circumstances affecting welfare of the child; best interests of the child

Motion to Dismiss, Summary Judgment, Statute of Limitations, Res Judicata, Collateral Estoppel

will; patent ambiguity; judicial interpretation; testator's intent

Certificate of Need; Demonstration project for limited-use MRI scanner; Change in project under N.C. Gen. Stat. 131E-176(16)(e)

Modification of child custody; change in employment and residence; review of evidence prior to permanent order; documents missing from court file; motion for new trial; findings to support award of attorney fees.

Termination of parental rights; adjudication under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(2); evaluating parent's progress at the time of the adjudicatory hearing rather than subsequent dispositional hearing; parent's refusal to sign DSS case plan; lack of court order requiring parent's compliance with case plan.

Appeal from order terminating respondents' parental rights; termination of respondents' parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(3); failure to pay for the cost of care for the juvenile; whether the trial court conducted the adjudicatory hearing under a fundamental misapprehension of the law.

Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court erred by denying respondent's motion to continue; whether the trial court complied with the requirements of the Indian Child Welfare Act.

Termination of parental rights based upon neglect by abandonment pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1), dependency pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(6), and abandonment pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(7).

No-merit appeal pursuant to Rule 3.1(e) of the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure from an order terminating parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1), (2), (6), and (9).

Appeal from an order terminating respondents' parental rights; whether the evidence supports the trial court's findings of fact and whether the findings of fact supports its conclusion that respondent-mother's parental rights should be terminated pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1) (2019); whether the trial court abused its discretion in concluding that it was in the children's best interests that respondent-father's parental rights be terminated.

Termination of parental rights for willful abandonment pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(7); whether the trial court made sufficient findings of fact to support the conclusion that grounds existed to terminate parental rights.

Termination of parental rights for neglect pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1); whether the findings of fact were supported by evidence and supported a likelihood of repetition of neglect.

Termination of parental rights; trial court's failure to state the standard of proof used to make adjudicatory findings of fact; insufficient evidence to support adjudication.