Appellate Court Opinions

Title to real property; whether trial court made sufficient findings of fact concerning defendant's adverse possession claim

Constitutionality of ordinance barring all registered sex offenders from town parks

Motor vehicle wreck; application of State v. Fuller to denial of defendant's motion to continue on grounds of alleged insufficient notice of expert testimony to be offered on defendant's BAC level using retrograde extrapolation method

N.C.G.S. § 14-27.4; sexual acts against a child; whether indictments charging defendant with two separate offenses related to the same transaction and were thus multiplicious

Felony murder; whether trial court correctly refused to instruct on lesser-included offense

New Trial; Defendant's motion for appropriate relief dismissed as moot

Traffic stop; reasonable suspicion to continue investigation after conclusion of initial stop; motion to suppress evidence seized in subsequent search

Erroneous jury instruction on rape/acting in concert; plain error review; applicability of State v. Graham

Medical malpractice; sufficiency of expert testimony on proximate cause

Contractor's abandonment of construction project; can contractor's failure to defend and subsequent entry of default judgment against it terminate subcontractor's right to a lien on the property on which improvements were made?

Contractor's abandonment of construction project; can contractor's failure to defendant and subsequent entry of default judgment against it terminate subcontractor's right to a lien on the property on which improvements were made?

Whether plaintiff's forecast evidence of negligence was sufficient to survive summary judgment for defendant or was mere speculation

Construction contract; indemnity

Batson v. Kentucky challenge to prosecution's use of peremptory challenges; appeal from trial court's order following remand for hearing after defendant's conviction and sentence of death for first-degree murder

Alleged traffic violation; reasonable suspicion to stop vehicle; motion to suppress evidence and statements

Appeal from conviction of driving while license suspended; whether the State was entitled to a presumption that it complied with N.C.G.S. § 20-48(a) (2005) when it notified defendant of the suspension

Vehicle stop based solely on officer's knowledge that the owner's driver's license is suspended; motion to suppress based on lack of reasonable suspicion to stop

Workers' Compensation; change in condition under N,C.G.S. § 97-47