NCGS § 14-32.4, assault inflicting serious bodily injury; substantial evidence; sufficiency of indictment

Motion to Dismiss for Insufficiency of the Evidence; Rule 404; Witness Credibility

sufficient evidence of disseminating obscenity; obscene materials; sexual conduct; lewd exhibition; relevant evidence; Rule 403; ineffective assistance of counsel; no plain error

Criminal law; embezzlement; deferred prosecution agreement; probation; jurisdiction; writ of certiorari; interlocutory order; probation revocation; activates a sentence; imposes special probation; de novo hearing; right of appeal; superior court

sexual battery

kidnapping; armed robbery; sufficiency of evidence of restraint to support kidnapping charge independent of the underlying robbery; kidnapping inherent in robbery

satellite-based monitoring; sexual offenses; impermissible vouching; expert testimony; plain error

First-Degree Murder, Jury Instruction, Lesser Included Offense

Doctrine of equitable subrogation applicable in context of purchase transactions; summary judgment improper

Appeal from an order terminating respondent's parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1), (7) (2017). No-merit review pursuant to Rule 3.1(e) of the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure.

Appeal from an order terminating respondent's parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1)-(2) (2017). No-merit review pursuant to Rule 3.1(e) of the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure.

Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court's findings of fact support termination on the grounds of neglect and willful abandonment pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1) and (7); whether the trial court acted impartially during the termination hearing.

Appeal from order terminating respondent's parental rights under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1), (8) (2017). No-merit review pursuant to Rule 3.1(e) of the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure.

Appeal from order terminating respondent's parental rights under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1)-(2) (2017). No-merit review pursuant to N.C. R. App. P. 3.1(e).

Appeal from final decision of the Business Court; whether the trial court erred in dismissing plaintiff's complaint seeking damages and declaratory relief based on a contractual dispute between the parties over, inter alia, media rights related to the recovery and disposition of artifacts from the shipwrecked Queen Anne's Revenge and the renewal of a search permit for the El Salvador vessel.

Appeal from convictions for (1) two counts of common law obstruction of justice, as elevated to a felony pursuant to N.C.G.S. 14-3(b), and (2) accessory after the fact to sexual activity by a substitute parent; whether the trial court erred by denying defendant's motions to dismiss all charges.

Appeal from convictions for murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury; whether the trial court erred in allowing two eyewitnesses to make in-court identifications of defendant as the shooter; whether the Court of Appeals majority correctly found that the trial court violated defendant's right to due process, that the error was prejudicial, and that defendant should receive a new trial.

Appeal from trial court's denial of motion to dismiss charge of trafficking in cocaine based on insufficiency of the evidence; whether the Court of Appeals correctly determined that defendant preserved the issue of whether there was insufficient evidence that defendant actually possessed cocaine and that the State failed to present substantial evidence of each element of the crime.