Appellate Court Opinions

Assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury; assault inflicting serious bodily injury; assault inflicting serious injury; ex mero motu intervention; grossly improper closing argument; closing argument demonstration; lesser included offense; double jeopardy; multiple punishment.

Heroin trafficking; jury instructions; evidence admission; plain error.

Mistrial; child abuse; kidnapping; substantial evidence; AOC intepreter standards.

N.C.R. Evid. 404(b), 403; restitution as a condition of probation, N.C.G.S. § 15A-1343(d); obtaining property by false pretenses; N.C.G.S. § 14-100(a).

N.C. Gen. Stat. 15A-1242; self-representation; knowing, intelligent, and voluntary waiver

State constitutional rights; Corum claim; Parental rights; Bodily integrity; State actor; Adequate state remedy; Rule 12(b)(6); Sufficient to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.

Dismissal; Failure to exhaust administrative remedies; Mootness; Enabling statute N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-178; Trial court must pass upon constitutional issues.

failure to prosecute; Rule 41; Juvenile Code; interlocutory order

N.C.G.S. § 31-3.3; attested will; witness signature; adopted signatures; statutory interpretation; summary judgment.

statutory mandates, N.C.G.S. § 7B-906.1(d)(1a), N.C.G.S. § 7B-906.1(d1), review hearing, permanency planning hearing, reunification efforts, lack of authority. 

Office of Administrative Hearings; Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System (TSERS); subject-matter jurisdiction; constitutional issues

secret peeping; second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor; third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor

Rule 404(b), Rule 403, impeachment, abuse of discretion

Prescriptive Easement

Declaratory Judgment Action;
County Attorney’s Standing;
Duplex v. Townhouse;
Subdivision Ordinance;
Building Code;
Litigation by Consent;
Third Party;
Damages and fees for non-parties;

Governmental immunity; statute of repose; SAFE Child Act; motion to dismiss

Zoning, Evidence, Use category

termination of parental rights; ceasing reunification efforts; neglect; future neglect.