Appellate Court Opinions

Whether a county's general zoning power authorizes it to enact an Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance

Whether a county's general zoning power authorizes it to enact an adequate public facilities ordinance

Whether the district court properly dismissed plaintiff's action to annul his marriage to defendant for bigamy because plaintiff failed to present sufficient evidence that defendant had been married previously

Action to collect unpaid bill for inpatient care received by defendant; trial court's grant of summary judgment for hospital on the amount due; whether there was a genuine issue of material fact regarding the reasonableness of the charges

Workers' Compensation; N.C.G.S. § 97-57; whether competent evidence supported Indus. Comm'n's findings on which insurance carrier had the risk for plaintiff?s asbestosis

Professional malpractice action; grant of summary judgment in defendants' favor; whether plaintiff's expert witness met the requirements of Rule 9(j)(1)-that he was reasonably expected to qualify as an expert under Rule 702(b).

Negligence action against the State; application of public duty doctrine to DOT's exercise of its mandate to maintain the public roads

When defendant was charged with first-degree murder, whether the trial court erred in also instructing the jury on second-degree murder; prejudicial effect of testimony from one of several expert witnesses; prejudicial effect of the trial court's failure to give the full pattern jury instruction on determination of aggravating factors

Admissibility of prior acts testimony against defendant under Evidence Rule 404(b)

Sufficiency of evidence that defendant constructively possessed contraband found in a bedroom with indicia of domain present.

Whether the trial court abused its discretion by excluding expert testimony about repressed memory theory under Rule of Evidence 403

Admission of police officer's testimony that defendant exercised his Miranda right to remain silent; plain error review

Motion to suppress evidence of DWI; whether one of the trial court's findings of fact was supported by substantial, competent evidence; whether police had reasonable suspicion to stop defendant's vehicle

Whether, after concluding that the trial court applied the wrong legal standard in granting defendant's motion to suppress, the Court of Appeals should have: (i) remanded the case to the trial court to reevaluate the evidence pursuant to the correct standard; or (ii) reversed the erroneous order without remand

Application of corpus delicti rule to defendant's extrajudicial confession and conviction for four counts of sexual offense with a child; erroneous jury instructions

Whether expert testimony that a child had been sexually abused was properly admitted at trial; plain error review.

Denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence; whether there was reasonable suspicion to extend defendant's detention beyond the scope of an otherwise valid traffic stop

Application of N.C.G.S. § 15A-1242 to a waiver of counsel inquiry in a termination of parental rights hearing