Motion for Appropriate Relief; Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; N.C. Gen. Stat. Section 15A-1420

speeding to elude arrest; sufficiency of the evidence; trial court's failure to recognize and exercise its discretion at sentencing; concurrent v. consecutive sentences

Appeal from civil judgment for court-appointed attorneys' fees; requirement of notice and opportunity to be heard; conflicting order for waiver of fees; unable to determine whether trial court made clerical error

first-degree murder, threat, perfect self-defense, imperfect self-defense, defense of others, jury instructions, victim, force, involuntary manslaughter, second-degree murder, aggressor

Defendant convicted of assault on a child under 12 years old and felonious child abuse; fatal defect in arrest warrant; no subject matter jurisdiction; vacate in part; admissibility of portions of jail phone recordings; North Carolina Rule of Evidence 403; hearsay; flight risk; bad character; implied admission; no error in part

Improper remarks, ex mero motu, prosecutorial misconduct

relevancy; voluntary statements; N.C.R. Evid. 404(b); domestic violence; N.C. Gen. Stat. 14-32(b)

Opportunity to be heard, attorney?s fees, civil judgments

failure to instruct on lesser-included offense of possession of methamphetamine to charge of trafficking in methamphetamine by possession did not constitute plain error; remand for correction of clerical error in judgment was required where judgment listed incorrect offense

Medical malpractice; administrative negligence claims; exclusion of expert testimony from hospital administrator under Rule 702; record insufficient for meaningful appellate review; exclusion of evidence under Rule 403