Structured Sentencing Act

Hearing request by defendants to determine that plaintiff employee is permanently and totally disabled; standing of defendants to request such hearing; joinder of putative beneficiaries of death benefits claim; and findings of fact based on speculative expert testimony; denial of attorney's fees.

Governmental immunity

Prior Pending Action; Subject Matter Jurisdiction; Relationship Between Caveat and Challenges to Inter Vivos Transfers

Discovery violations by the State; admission of expert testimony of Spanish interpreter in light of discovery violation; no prejudice by discovery violation; and trial court's denial of defendant's requested jury instruction.

Reasonable suspicion for detaining defendant for a canine unit

Presumptive-range sentencing

Co-defendant testimony; prejudice

Doctrine of forfeiture by wrongdoing

Holder of note; Judicial Notice

Due process; attorney discipline

Possessory lien

Review of recommendation for judicial suspension

Review of recommendation for judicial censure

Whether defendant made a valid waiver of his right to counsel under N.C.G.S. § 15A-1242

Admissibility of pornographic material featuring incest at trial under Rules of Evidence 403 and 404; whether defendant was convicted of an aggravated offense under N.C.G.S. § 14-208.6(1a) and thus subject to lifetime satellite-based monitoring

Whether expert testimony is required to establish the extent of a victim's mental capacity to consent when a defendant is charged with second-degree sexual offense pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 14-27.5 and crime against nature pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 14-177

MAR proceeding; whether a trial court can retroactively apply the Structured Sentencing Act to modify a criminal judgment entered under the Fair Sentencing Act