Obscene gestures, disorderly conduct, reasonable suspicion, sentencing, stipulated prior record level

SBM

Improper presentment/indictment procedure; no subject matter jurisdiction in superior court; dismissal improper; remand to district court

DWI; Lay Witness Testimony; Jury Deliberations; Opinion of Court

Motion to Dismiss; Issue Preservation; Rule 2; Sufficiency of the Evidence; Opinion Testimony; Plain error; Jury Instruction; Statutory Interpretation; Identity Theft.

Posession of methamphetamine; Wiaver of right to jury trial, NCGS 1201; formal arraignment; revocation within 10 working days after prior arraignment.

motion to suppress; Summers detention; occupant of premises being searched

Summary Judgment; Piercing the Corporate Veil; Entry of Default

Competing motions for summary judgment; contradictory affidavits created genuine issue of material fact; summary judgment improper

Modification of child support order; change in custody was substantial change in circumstances; exercise of subject matter jurisdiction proper

Findings of fact required to support alimony award.

Divorce proceedings; appeal from trial court's equitable distribution judgment and order; application of N.C.G.S. 50-20; whether the trial court failed to join necessary parties to the equitable distribution action.

Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court's findings of fact supported its conclusion of law that respondent-mother's parental rights should be terminated pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(2).

Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court erred by finding there was sufficient evidence of respondent's willful failure to pay child support or that respondent willfully abandoned his children; whether the trial court abused its discretion in determining the children's best interests.

Appeal from dismissal of respondent-father's appeal from an order terminating his parental rights; whether the Court of Appeals was required to conduct an independent review of the merits of the father's arguments after his appellate counsel submitted a no-merit brief pursuant to Appellate Rule 3.1.

Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court received sufficient evidence and made adequate findings of fact to support an adjudication of grounds under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(5) and (9).

Appeal from adjudication and disposition orders finding the juvenile was delinquent based on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting a public officer; whether the trial court erred in not dismissing the charges for insufficient evidence; whether the Court of Appeals erred in vacating the trial court's orders.

Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court abused its discretion by concluding that terminating respondent's parental rights was in the best interests of the juveniles.

Appeal from convictions for first-degree murder (noncapital) and related firearms offenses; whether the trial court violated defendant's Sixth Amendment right to confront the principal witness against him, and if so, whether the error was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, thus entitling defendant to a new trial.

Whether double jeopardy prevented defendant from being tried for murder a second time after his first trial ended in a mistrial because of a deadlocked jury and the State then voluntarily dismissed the charge under N.C.G.S. 15A-931.