express easement, easements appurtenant, easements in gross, declaratory judgment, quiet title, Rule 12(c), void for vagueness, de novo, reasonable certainty, claim preclusion, issue preclusion, affirm. 

summary judgment, patent ambiguity, priority

Child custody; credibility; best interest of child

breaking and/or entering a motor vehicle, motion to dismiss, sufficiency of the evidence

photographic identification of defendant, murder of an unborn child, indictment, knowledge of pregnancy, N.C.G.S. 14-23.2(a), N.C.G.S. 14-23.8

Per se ineffective assistance of counsel; Harbison inquiry; defendant's knowing consent to admission of guilt.

plea; guilty; petition for writ of certiorari; trial court; NCGS 15A-1444; merit; error; extraordinary circumstances; sentencing; multiple; concurrent; consecutive.

Assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill; possession of a firearm by a felon; Rule 404(b).