Procedural challenge to Council of State's approval of Execution Protocol

Admissibility of juror affidavits to impeach jury verdict and grant plaintiff a new trial pursuant to Rule of Evidence 606 (b)

SBI lab's determination of weight of heroin recovered from defendant; denial of defendant's motion to continue; whether trial court erred in preventing defense counsel from questioning SBI analyst about national study done on forensic labs

Whether trial court erred in denying defendant's motion to dismiss a charge of robbery with a dangerous weapon based on insufficient evidence

Whether defendant's confessions were improperly induced by hope; whether trial court should have intervened ex mero motu in the State's closing arguments

Court-ordered restitution as a condition of probation; whether sufficient evidence supported the amount of restitution awarded

Whether unauthorized use of a motor vehicle is a lesser-included offense of felony possession of stolen goods

Murder (noncapital); whether defendant's motions to dismiss should have been allowed because the State's evidence was insufficient to establish that defendant was the perpetrator of the crime

Relation back of amended complaint under N.C. R. Civ. P. 15(c); whether substituting the county sheriff as a party in lieu of the sheriff's department amended the claim or substituted a party-defendant

Relation back of amended complaint under N.C.R. Civ. P. 15(c); whether substituting the county sheriff as a party in lieu of the sheriff's department amended the claim or substituted a party-defendant

Worker's Compensation; Status as an Employee; Sufficiency of Evidence of Disability

Class action litigation; attorney's fees