no plain error where trial court defined sexual act to include disjunctive acts

Hearsay; Confidential informant; Surveillance video; Computer-generated time and date-stamp on video; Plain error; Computer records.

statute authorizing punishment of second-degree murder as a class B1 felony under two of three definitions of malice was not ambiguous, and sentencing defendant as a B1 felony offender was not error where jury unanimously found by special verdict form that all three forms of malice had been proven by the state

trial court erred by conditioning driving while impaired defendant's transfer from supervised to unsupervised probation on the passage of a certain amount of time

Forgery;
Uttering;
Obtaining Property by False Pretenses;
Fatal Defect;
Fatal Variance;
Motion to Dismiss;
Unpreserved Issues on Appeal;
Sufficiency of the State's evidence under State v. Golder, 374 N.C. 238, 246, 839 S.E.2d 782, 788 (2020);
Statutory Right to Recordation;
N.C. Gen Stat. ? 15A-1241;
Private Bench Conferences;

Motion to Dismiss; Adverse Possession; Estoppel

Involuntary commitment;
Appellate review;
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 122C-3(11)(a)(1)-(II);
Standard of review;
Presumptions;
Burden of proof;

Law enforcement recordings;
N.C.G.S. § 132-1.4A;
Threshold showing of entitlement;
Restrictions;
Not public or personnel records;

Consent for Adoption; Biological Father; financial support under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 48-3-601

Foreclosure; Appellate Rule Violations; Dismissal