obtaining property by false pretenses; ineffective assistance of counsel

Lay opinion testimony by law enforcement officer; plain error; use of prior inconsistent statement at trial; jury instruction on identity

controlled substances; trafficking in heroin; absence of quantity on verdict form; ambiguity of verdict; hearsay; confidential informant tip

Criminal court costs; meaning of in every criminal case in costs statute; statutory construction; costs not intended to be punitive

Voluntary absence by intoxication; waiver of right to be present at trial; no error in failing to conduct competency hearing before proceeding with trial; no error in amending judgments to correct clerical error ex parte

Lay opinion testimony by law enforcement officer; co-conspirator exception to hearsay rule

Flight Instruction

character evidence

Motion to suppress; officer approach to car in empty parking lot late at night; consensual encounter or seizure

First degree murder, attempted murder, competency, not guilty by reason of insanity, waiver to admit criminal acts

Child Support
High-Income

Dismissal of custody action for lack of standing; whether the plaintiff alleged sufficient facts both to prove a close relationship to child and to overcome defendants' protected status as natural parents.

Whether landowners' operation of a firing range in an unincorporated area of the county is subject to the county zoning ordinance regulating outdoor firing ranges; whether the Court of Appeals erred in vacating the superior court's order that declared the use legal and remanding the matter to the Board of Adjustment for necessary findings of fact.

Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court erred in failing to make the written findings required by statute; whether the trial court abused its discretion in finding that termination of respondent's parental rights was not in the best interests of the children.

Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court received sufficient evidence and made adequate findings of fact to support an adjudication of grounds under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1) and (7).

Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court erred by granting a motion made pursuant to N.C.G.S. 1A-1, Rule 60 after notice of appeal had been filed where the judge who signed the orders terminating parental rights was not the judge who presided over the termination hearing.

Review of recommendation to censure.

Whether the State presented sufficient evidence of an aggravating factor--that defendant took advantage of a position of trust or confidence, including a domestic relationship--to submit that aggravating factor to the jury.

Appeal from a trial court order granting defendant's motion for appropriate relief, vacating defendant's convictions and sentence of death, and ordering a new trial; whether the trial court erred in granting the motion for appropriate relief based upon its conclusion that defendant's counsel was ineffective for failing to call or consult with various available witnesses in a capital proceeding.