Sixth Amendment right of counsel, clear and unequivocal waiver required, knowing and voluntary waiver of right to counsel, misconduct

Hearsay Exception; Confrontation Clause; Motion to Continue to Locate and Subpoena a Witness; Motion to Dismiss

Rule 60(b) motion; special proceedings; Rule 24 motion to intervene; subject matter jurisdiction

Jury instructions; Duress; Lesser-included offense; N.C. Gen. Stat. Section 14-54.

Attorney discipline; magistrates as judicial officers; meaning of tribunal; conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice; N.C. Rules of Professional Conduct 3.5(a)(4)(B) and 8.4(d)

Rules of Professional Conduct; Disciplinary Hearing

Public Record Request; No Jurisdiction; Jurisdictional vs. Procedural Rules

Re-zoning; common law vested rights; expired plat approval, development agreements.

Alimony Award.

Trial court presumed to have jurisdiction

Prejudicial effect of appeal dismissal on subsequent appeal; Rule 12(b)(1); subject matter jurisdiction; standing; Rule 17(a); substitution; ratification

Workers' Compensation Act; application of N.C.G.S. 97-10.2, which states the rights and obligations of an employer and employee regarding payment of benefits under the Act when the employee recovers a settlement in a common law action for damages against a third-party tortfeasor.

Whether the trial court erred in giving a disjunctive jury instruction on one of the elements of first-degree sexual offense; whether the error was prejudicial to defendant.

Conviction for sexual exploitation of a minor under N.C.G.S. 14-190.16; whether the trial court abused its discretion in overruling defendant's objection to the prosecutor's closing argument and denying defendant's request for an instruction defining 'oral intercourse' as requiring penetration.

Motion to suppress evidence; whether the affidavit on which a warrant authorizing a search of defendant's property was based established probable cause to issue the warrant.

Whether defendant received adequate notice of his probation revocation hearing pursuant to N.C.G.S. 15A-1345(e).

Whether defendant is entitled to a new trial because the trial court erred in giving an unsupported jury instruction on flight.

Interlocutory appeal from N.C. Business Court order allowing plaintiffs' motion to disqualify defense counsel under Rule 1.9(a) of the N.C. Rules of Professional Conduct.