Admission of officer's opinion testimony regarding his experience that neighborhood community members were reluctant to speak with investigating officers did not amount to plain error; State presented sufficient evidence of permanent and debilitating factor in aggravation found by the jury.

4th Amendment; Motion to Suppress; Consent to Search; Scope of Consent; NC Rule of Appellate Procedure 10(a)(1).

Second-degree rape; Force; Consent

Motion to Dismiss; Misdemeanor Child Abuse; Substantial Risk of Physical Injury

First degree murder; motion to dismiss; N.C.R. Ev. 803(3)

Exhaustion of Administrative Remendies; Whistleblower Act.

Workers' Compensation - Suspension of Disability Payments

Injury by accident

Attorney-Client Privilege; Agent; Remand

Voluntary Dismissal, Statute of Limitations

Visitation, Child Custody Modification.

Quiet title action; two-judge rule

Section 108 Hearing, condemnation, billboard, eminent domain, compensation, outdoor Advertising Control Act

Workers' compensation; Parsons presumption; inadequate findings of fact; disability

Child support; attorney fees

Arbitration; Scope of Arbitrable Issues; Delegating Issues of Substantive Arbitrability to Arbitrator

Equitalbe distribution; subject matter jurisdiction

Implied Consent Offense; Reasonable Grounds; Exclusionary Rule Inapplicable