Child support; interlocutory appeal from discovery sanctions; lack of appellate jurisdiction

Challenge to decades-old covenants in residential subdivision; Real Property Marketable Title Act; exception for covenants that are part of a scheme of development and that restrict the property to residential use only, or more narrowly to multi-family or single-family residential use only; statutory construction

Tortious interference with prospective economic advantage; summary judgment; Rules of Appellate Procedure; substantial and gross violations.

Worker's Compensation; NCGS 97-25(f); NCGS 97-2(19); NCGS 97-88.1; frivolous appeal; medical compensation; attorney's fees; abuse of discretion; cross appeal.

right to elective share determination proper by clerk of superior court

Kidnapping; sufficient evidence of separate confinement or restraint apart from that inherent in underlying assaults; sufficient evidence of each alternative theory of purpose for kidnapping; challenge to instruction that knife was deadly weapon as matter of law; requirement that evidentiary challenges show prejudice

motion to suppress; probable cause; staleness of information in affidavit; trafficking

DWI, Motion to Suppress; Probable Cause

jury instructions; lesser-included offense; involuntary manslaughter

insufficient evidence of every essential element for the offense of breaking or entering a motor vehicle

Arson; motion to dismiss; application of requirement that defendant burned the dwelling house of another where other inhabitant was co-conspirator in arson plan; admission of expert testimony on fire investigation and cause of fire; Rule 702 reliability determination; jury instructions on insurance fraud; plain error; sufficiency of evidence to support restitution

Admissibility of lay witness identifications, Rule of Evidence 701; sufficient evidence of felony larceny; restitution, N.C. Gen. Stat. 15A-1340.34, N.C. Gen. Stat. 1340.36, review of ability to pay prior to ordering restitution.

? Motions to dismiss
? First-degree murder; robbery with a dangerous weapon; discharging a firearm within city limits in violation of local ordinance
? Conflicting evidence of self-defense
? Substantial evidence of premeditation and deliberation
? Taking of weapon and murder were so linked in time to constitute a continuous transaction
? Failure to introduce city ordinance in evidence

Cyberstalking; plain error; challenge to admission of evidence excluded by prior ruling on motion in limine; unpreserved challenge to prosecutor's statements during jury selection

no abuse of discretion where trial court refused to admit evidence of the victim's mental illness because prosecution witness's testimony about victim's mental health was summary and did not open the door to an entirely new line of inquiry on the subject

motion to suppress, petition for writ of certiorari, Fourth Amendment search

Bail forfeiture; voluntary dismissal; sanctions; Rule 41

Sexual exploitation of a minor; statutory sex offense; lifetime SBM; writ of certiorari; Rule 2; NCGS 7A-451(a)(18); ineffective assistance of counsel.

Rule 702 of evidence; Review for plain error; Abuse of discretion; Petition for Writ of Certiorari

Challenge to decades-old covenants in residential subdivision; Real Property Marketable Title Act; exception for covenants that are part of a scheme of development and that restrict the property to residential use only, or more narrowly to multi-family or single-family residential use only; statutory construction