Confrontation Clause; preservation; general objection

employment contract; sovereign immunity; public official immunity; summary judgment; Rule 15

abused and neglected juvenile; home state of the juvenile; temporary emergency jurisdiction; N.C. Gen. Stat. section 50A-204; caretaker status; preservation; N.C. Gen. Stat. section 7B-903; statutory interpretation

Procedure for Standing in child custody hearing, parent and child relationship, unchallenged findings of fact are binding.

minor special use permit; quasi-judicial decision; competent, material, and substantial evidence in the record; review factors; sufficient findings of fact; exclusion of witness testimony

Rule 404(b) prior bad act evidence; motion to dismiss N.C.G.S. 90-108(a)(7)

1st Degree Murder;
Attempted First Degree Murder;
Arson;
Felony Murder;
Premeditation and deliberation;
Sufficiency of indictment;
Rules 401, 402, 403, 404(b);
Transferred Intent;
Prior Bad Acts;

Dismissal of unnecessary petition for writ of certiorari; N.C. Gen. Stat. 15A-1222 and 15A-1232; fair and clear jury instructions taken as a whole; DNA and fingerprint evidence; insufficient expert testimony under Rule 702(a)(3); no prejudicial error in admission of expert testimony; habitual breaking and entering status offense as a Class E felony; no clerical error on written judgment.

Indecent liberties;
Habitual Felon;
Opening Statement;
Vouching/bolstering;
Plain Error

motion to suppress; traffic stop; reasonable suspicion; medically canceled driver's license; search incident to arrest