Appellate Court Opinions

personal jurisdiction, sufficient minimum contacts, child custody, visitation, domestic violence, nonresident defendant, motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. 

personal jurisdiction, sufficient minimum contacts, child custody, visitation, domestic violence, nonresident defendant, motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. 

Alienation of affection, criminal conversation, law-of-the-case doctrine, issue preclusion, claim preclusion, res judicata, voluntary dismissal, punitive damages, summary judgment, out-of-state conduct, preservation, directed verdict

standing, motion to dismiss, declaratory judgment, special damages

petition to partition real property; lack of personal jurisdiction; failure to require proof of service of the summons and petition; abuse of discretion in denying Rule 60(b) motion; N.C. Gen. Stat. 1-75.10 and 1-75.11

Abuse, neglect, dependency; interlocutory; temporary disposition order; motion to strike brief of GAL; unsafe conditions; domestic violence; differing neglect adjudications; single petition for two minors

Rule 17 guardian appointment, willful abandonment, termination of parental rights. 

termination of parental rights, willful abandonment, incarcerated respondent, neglect by abandonment

Motion to dismiss; sufficiency of evidence; with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury; serious physical injury; no error; province of the jury.

satellite-based monitoring; SBM; findings of fact; competent evidence; conclusion of law; legal accuracy; correct application; justify; conclusive; risk; assessment; Static-99; N.C.G.S. § 14-208.40B; additional evidence; additional findings; highest level; supervision; monitoring

petition for writ of certiorari; sentencing; mitigating factor; stipulation; defendant's request for a different judge on remand

felony murder, jury instructions, double jeopardy, collateral estoppel, character evidence, closing arguments, opinion testimony

Felony possession of a firearm; facial challenge; as-applied challenge; Second Amendment; constitutionality; first-degree murder

First-degree forcible rape;
First-degree forcible sexual offense;
Sexual servitude of a child victim;
Incest;
Preserved Objections;
Waiver;
Plain Error;
Flight;
Jury Instructions;
Aiding & Abetting;
DNA Evidence;

right to counsel; termination of parental rights; motion to withdraw from representation; notice requirement; N.C. Gen. Stat. 7B-1101.1(a)

neglected juvenile, abused juvenile, prior abuse and neglect, verbatim recitations of petition's allegations

termination of parental rights, jurisdiction, notice of appeal, proper party

Domestic violence protection order, no good cause, no continued legitimate fear, lack of competent evidence.