Vouching; Credibility; Invited Error; Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Motion for Appropriate Relief; Cross-Examination; Sexual Abuse; Expert; Trial Counsel; Appellate Counsel

Conflicting Court of Appeals Precedent; In re Civil Penalty; Authority of Court of Appeals Panels to Overrule Earlier Panel Decisions

aggravated sentencing; aggravating factor; Blakely v. Washington; harmless error

Robbery; Robbery with a Dangerous Weapon; Motion to Suppress; Pre-trial Identification; Show-up; Sixth Amendment; Impermissibly Suggestive

guilty plea; Anders brief; civil judgment for attorney's fees and costs

First-degree capital murder; premeditation and deliberation; felony murder; jury instructions on informant's testimony; acting in concert; Rules of Evidence, 401, 402 and 403.

motion to dismiss; disseminating obscene material to a minor; unanimous jury verdict; indecent liberties; first-degree statutory rape of a child; reconsideration of decision not to testify

custody modification, visitation

Governmental injury; waiver-insurance; ambiguous terms; summary judgment; general liability policy

Liability insurance; Duty to Defend; Proximate Cause; Bodily Injury

Restrictive Covenant; Negative Covenant; Affirmative Covenant; Real Property; Deeds; Ambiguity

Facial constitutional challenge to 2016 law making Cabinet appointees subject to the advice and consent of the North Carolina Senate.

Medical malpractice action; whether the trial court erred in allowing plaintiff's Rule 59 motion to amend judgment, thus setting aside a jury verdict on damages; whether a new trial should be granted on the sole issue of damages; whether the trial court erred in directing a verdict against defendants on the issue of contributory negligence; trial court's award of costs against defendants for certain expert witness fees.

Whether a local board of county commissioners may be held legally responsible for providing a sound basic education for students in the county; appeal from trial court's grant of defendant's Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss.

Whether the trial court erred in denying defendant's motion to suppress his confession; whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that defendant's confession was involuntary and should have been suppressed; whether the error was prejudicial.

Whether subdivision (a)(1) of N.C.G.S. 14-399, which generally prohibits littering, is an essential element of, or creates an exception to, that offense; whether an indictment that did not refer to the language in subdivision (a)(1) was fatally defective.

Whether the trial court erred in denying defendant's motion to suppress evidence of a handgun seized from him at the scene of an ongoing police search for narcotics; whether the trial court's findings of fact were sufficient to support its conclusion of law that a Terry frisk of defendant was justified under the circumstances.