Plain Error; Confessions; Guilty Plea

Motion to suppress; Meaningful appellate review; Right to confront witnesses; Non-hearsay; Motion to continue.

Jury instruction; acting in concert; concerted action; embezzlement; larceny by employee; corporate malfeasance; double jeopardy; ineffective assistance of counsel

criminal, motion to suppress, reasonable suspicion

Expert testimony; discovery violations; motion to dismiss for insufficient evidence of weight of controlled substance; weight of material outside the scope of the definition of a controlled substance

Confidential Informant.

Superior court's subject-matter jurisdiction over misdemeanor charge of stalking; Rules of Evidence 401, 403, and 404(b); motion to dismiss

first degree murder; waiver-constitutional argument; motion to dismiss for insufficient evidence; premeditation and deliberation; prosecutorial statements in closing argument; standard for trial court's intervention ex mero motu.

assault by strangulation; motion to dismiss; lesser-included offense jury instruction; strangulation

Guilty plea; restitution; restitution invalidly ordered as to victims of unconvicted crime, stipulation as to invalid restitution does not warrant setting aside entire plea agreement

Assault on government official; Alford plea; intoxication in public place; probable cause

murder, motion to sever, arrest judgment

Kidnapping with intent to terrorize; Motion to dismiss; NCGS § 15A-404 jury instruction (citizen's detention)

nullum tempus; governmental function; proprietary function; maintenance of city sewer system; statute of limitation

equitable distribution order; unequal distribution of marital property; classification; valuation

Willfulness, Ability to Comply, Child Support, Contempt

Attorneys? fees in disciplinary actions by a licensing board; Statutory interpretation of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 6-19.1

Motion to compel arbitration; Existence and scope of arbitration agreement; Construction of contract language.