Voluntary Dismissal, Bad Faith, Motion to Set Aside and Real Party in Interest

civil contempt; willful noncompliance with prior court orders; unchallenged findings of fact

Fraud; mistake; Rule 41(b) dismissal

Equitable distribution; alimony; marital misconduct; findings of fact; attorney fees.

Town Ordinance; negligence per se; premises liability

Owelty; Partition by sale; Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law

habitual impaired driving; driving while licensed revoked; ineffective assistance of counsel

Indictment
Presentment
State v. Baker

possession of a firearm by a felon; habitual felon status; sentence in a presumptive range; presumption of regularity; colloquy after State's evidence.

Specific intent jury instruction; premeditation and deliberation jury instruction; trial court intervention ex mero motu

second-degree murder; discharging a weapon into occupied property; appeal following guilty plea; no-merit brief

possession of a stolen motor vehicle; sufficiency of the evidence of defendant's knowledge that the vehicle was stolen

presentments; indictments

Waiver of indictment; NCGS 15A-642(c)

Motion to suppress; warrantless traffic stop; investigation of other crimes; measurable extension of stop; no independent reasonable suspicion

jury instructions on reasonable doubt; denial of defendant's motion to suppress

Constitutional Reasonableness

Motion to withdraw; Criminal Plea; Manifest Injustice

Motion to dismiss; Intent required for possession with intent to sell or deliver cocaine; Sufficiency of evidence required for proving habitual-felon status; and whether a habitual-felon-status trial constitutes a sentencing proceeding for purposes of the prohibition against sentencing a defendant in absentia.

Anders, 386 U.S. 738 (1967); larceny from a merchant; double jeopardy; motion to dismiss; ineffective assistance of counsel; unpreserved errors waived.