domestic violence; admissibility of testimony supporting allegations of domestic violence not pleaded in the complaint; temporary child custody order; mootness

permanency planning; abused and neglected juveniles

discovery sanctions; right to notice

Parental rights; permanent custody; conditional judgment; grandparent visitation; findings of fact.

Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act; limited contact; prior judicial orders

Public nuisance, NCGS 19-2.1; NCGS 160A-12; Rule 12(b)(6)motion to dismiss; subject matter jurisdiction; Abandonment of issue on appeal, Appellate Rule 28(a).

Anders Review; MAR

Weapons of mass death and destruction, exception to NCGS 14-288.8(c); Ejusdem Generis; Rule of Lenity; motion to dismiss.

Sexual offense; Plain Error; corpus delicti; Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

EIRA; Eyewitness Testimony, Unavailable Expert Witness.

Prior-record-level calculations;Stipulations to the classification of a defendant's prior conviction; State v. Arrington, 371 N.C. 518, 819 S.E.2d 329 (2018).

Post-conviction DNA testing, appointment of counsel, materiality

Improper closing argument; Non-prejudicial error where evidence of guilt is overwhelming and uncontested.

felony murder, evidence, closing argument

Probation revocation; Absconding; Sufficiency of evidence to support a finding of absconding.

Hearsay
Plain error
Prejudice
Attorney?s fees

Subject-matter jurisdiction to revoke probation; N.C. Gen. Stat. Section 15A-1346; Procedures for imposing direct criminal contempt.

Motion to dismiss
Theory of guilt
Voluntary Intoxication Instruction