Defendant convicted of assault on a child under 12 years old and felonious child abuse; fatal defect in arrest warrant; no subject matter jurisdiction; vacate in part; admissibility of portions of jail phone recordings; North Carolina Rule of Evidence 403; hearsay; flight risk; bad character; implied admission; no error in part

first-degree murder, threat, perfect self-defense, imperfect self-defense, defense of others, jury instructions, victim, force, involuntary manslaughter, second-degree murder, aggressor

Appeal from civil judgment for court-appointed attorneys' fees; requirement of notice and opportunity to be heard; conflicting order for waiver of fees; unable to determine whether trial court made clerical error

Revocation hearing; waiver of revocation hearing; jurisdiction; superior court; district court; N.C. Gen. Stat. Sec. 15A-1347; petition for writ of certiorari; N.C. R. App. P.4.

speeding to elude arrest; sufficiency of the evidence; trial court's failure to recognize and exercise its discretion at sentencing; concurrent v. consecutive sentences

Jury instructions, statutory mitigating factors, defendant's right to a jury trial

Motion for Appropriate Relief; Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; N.C. Gen. Stat. Section 15A-1420

Impartial Tribunal; Appellate Rule 2; N.C. Gen. Stat. s. 15A-1222; Chain of Custody

probation, trial court's exercise of discretion

Duress; sex offense; indecent liberties; imminent harm; ineffective assistance of counsel; plain error; jury instructions

Possession of a firearm by a felon; possession of a stolen firearm; guilty knowledge; dishonest purpose; real evidence; and chain of custody

Fatal variance, preservation, material element, surplusage

court erred by denying motion to dismiss or committed plain error by giving an alleged incomplete jury instruction on felony hit and run, or both

civil no-contact order; N.C.G.S. § 50C-1; First Amendment

Appeal from order terminating respondent's parental rights; termination of respondent's parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1), neglect.

Order terminating parental rights; whether the trial court's findings support its conclusion that grounds existed to terminate respondent's parental rights under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(2); whether the trial court complied with the requirements of the Indian Child Welfare Act.

Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court made sufficient findings to eliminate reunification from the permanent plan; whether DSS undertook reasonable efforts toward reunification; whether the evidence and the trial court's findings show respondent-mother willfully failed to pay a reasonable portion of the children's cost of care under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(3).

Appeal from order terminating respondent's parental rights; termination of respondent's parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(2); willful failure to make reasonable progress.

Order eliminating reunification from the children's permanent plan and subsequent order terminating father's parental rights for failure to make reasonable progress to correct the conditions which led to the removal of the children, pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(2), are affirmed where competent evidence supports the findings of fact and the findings support the conclusions of law.