Adjudication and disposition hearing; stipulated facts; resignation of trial judge; N.C.G.S. 1A-1, Rule 63; ministerial act; N.C.G.S. 7B-805.

issue is whether the NC Industrial Commission erred by declining to consider two suitable employment opportunities supposedly offered to plaintiff following the hearing before the Deputy Commissioner because they had not been approved by plaintiff's physician as of the date of the initial hearing

Defendant clearly and unequivocally waived his right to counsel, and his waiver was knowing, intelligent, and voluntary.

no error in declining to give N.C.P.I Crim. 308.10 instruction; no invited error; no plain error in failing to instruct jury on mistake of fact; failure to comply with N.C. R. App. P. 3 and properly notice appeal

habitation defense; self-defense; laying in wait; first-degree murder

Felony hit and run; sufficient evidence; jury instruction on flight

Sexual battery, inadequate record

Fourth Amendment, consent, coercion, motion to suppress, search, seizure

incest, statutory rape, indecent liberties with a child, first-degree kidnapping, subject matter jurisdiction, sovereign citizen, standby counsel, victim, child, pregnancy, relinquishment of parental rights, pediatrician, hearsay, confrontation, competency, incompetent

probation condition, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1343, abuse of discretion

Traffic checkpoint; DWI; programmatic purpose; State's police power; fundamental right to travel; 14th Amendment challenges.

motion to dismiss; misdemeanor child abuse; substantial risk of physical injury

strangulation, assault on a female, airway, detective, testimony, injury

Evidence in criminal trials; Plain error

Second-degree kidnapping; robbery with a dangerous weapon; asportation; motion to dismiss; greater danger; jury instruction; disjunctive elements; restraint or removal; plain error.

Trafficking in heroin by possession and transportation, motion to dismiss, preservation of issue for appeal, constructive possession, sufficiency of the evidence, mere suspicion, other incriminating circumstances.

Plain Error; Prejudice; Certiorari; Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

divorce; alimony; dependent spouse

grant of interpleader,
church dispute over access to bank accounts,
ecclesiastical entanglement,
substantial right,
subject matter jurisdiction,
appeal dismissed as interlocutory

Notice requirement for accrual of statute of limitations period for breach of contract; applicability of statute of limitations to declaratory judgment actions; whether nominal damages supported punitive damages and claims for breach of fiduciary duty and constructive fraud; notice and hearing requirements prior to judicial dissolution; derivative claims.