Joinder; Joinder of offenses; Transactional connection; Single scheme or plan; N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-926(a); Prejudice; Same location; Same victim; Same defendant; Modus Operandi; Abusive relationship; Lapse in time; 404(b); Rape; Assault; Assault with deadly weapon; AWDWISI

statutory rape and indecent liberties with a child; motion to dismiss; corpus delicti ('body of the crime'); strong corroborative evidence of Defendant's extrajudicial confession; bench trial; affirmed

motion to dismiss; insufficiency of the evidence; first-degree forcible rape; serious personal injury; jury instruction; constructive force; mental defect

Entrapment defense, entitlement to jury instructions on entrapment, prejudicial error

Satellite-based monitoring; reasonableness under Fourth Amendment

child custody, finding of fact, permanant order, sufficient evidence, best interest of the child

Consent DVPO, Rule 60(b)(4) Motion, Void Judgment, Finding Domestic Violence Occurred.

negligence; contributory negligence; summary judgment; sudden emergency doctrine

termination of parental rights, neglect, willful failure to make reasonable progress, best interest of the child

Termination of Parental Rights, Motion to Withdraw, Right to Counsel