N.C. Gen. Stat. 22B-20; restrictive covenant; summary judgment; statutory interpretation.

easement, map, driveway, boat, deed, parking, conveying, conveyance, depicted, recorded, slips, ingress, parties, egress, attorney's fees, easement rights, reasonable use, trial court, interfere, rights, gate, summary judgment, right to use, purchaser, adjacent, appears, feet

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

trial court erred by (1) failing to make findings of defendant's intent before entering no-contact order; (2) considering conduct that did not occur in NC; and (3) basing its order on incidents when defendant was not sixteen years of age

Non-judicial power of sale foreclosure; order of sale; redemption payment; fees, fines and interest; NC Unit Ownership Act NCGS sec. 47A; NC Condominium Act NCGS sec. 47C.

trial court's inquiry into potentially incompetent parent's need for a guardian ad litem; waiver of constitutionally protected parental status issue on appeal; necessary findings regarding supervised visitation costs.

Workers compensation; res judicata; occupational disease.

Time for filing cross-appeals under Rule of Appellate Procedure 3(c)(3); Motions to Tax Costs and General Appearances; Relation back of defenses; Rule 9(j) Motions to Dismiss; Exclusion of Medical Malpractice Experts under Rule of Evidence 702 and N.C. Gen. Stat. 90-21.12; Summary Judgment

Summary judgment; motion to amend counterclaims; severability of land sales contract; option contract; consideration; specified date; statute of frauds; marital interest.

jury instructions

no error in trial court's denial of defendant's post-sentencing motion to withdraw Alford plea; manifest injustice standard

Attorney fees, State v. Friend, notice and opportunity to be heard, motion to dismiss, possession of a firearm by a felon, circumstantial evidence.

ineffective assistance of counsel; Harbison; petition for writ of certiorari; Rule 2; satellite-based monitoring; duplicative court costs

indictment alleging possession and transportation of Fentanyl alleged possession and transportation of opiate qualifying as a schedule II controlled substance; no plain error existed where trial court communicated the essence of the deadlocked jury instructions but did not recite statutory language verbatim

Second degree murder; imperfect self defense; jury instructions; plain error review; aggressor; provocation; withdrawal from a fight.

Rule 404(b); Plain error; Sexually violent offenses; SBM

Motion to dismiss; sufficiency of the evidence; forgery of a check; uttering a false check; falsity element; authority to sign; illustrative evidence

driving while impaired, speeding, resisting public officer, felony eluding arrest, right to counsel, forfeiture, counsel, colloquy

probable cause supported officer's search of vehicle where officer smelled what he believed was marijuana and passenger admitted smoking marijuana recently and produced marijuana from his person; there was no error in jury instructions stating that Cyclopropylfentanyl and N-ethylpentylone were controlled substances where evidence was contradicted that substances were chemical analogues or derivatives of listed controlled substances

Certiorari; Plain error; Motions to Dismiss for Insufficient Evidence