Juvenile proceeding; disposition and commitment order; oral condition of probation; N.C. Gen. Stat. ? 7B-2512(a); oral order of disposition; duration of commitment; N.C. Gen. Stat. ? 7B-2513(a4); mootness; prejudicial error

Summary judgment; governmental immunity; public official?s immunity.

Judgment on the pleadings; statute of limitations; latent defect.

Challenge to decades-old covenants in residential subdivision; Real Property Marketable Title Act; exception for covenants that are part of a scheme of development and that restrict the property to residential use only, or more narrowly to multi-family or single-family residential use only; statutory construction

Bail forfeiture; voluntary dismissal; sanctions; Rule 41

Kidnapping; sufficient evidence of separate confinement or restraint apart from that inherent in underlying assaults; sufficient evidence of each alternative theory of purpose for kidnapping; challenge to instruction that knife was deadly weapon as matter of law; requirement that evidentiary challenges show prejudice

no abuse of discretion where trial court refused to admit evidence of the victim's mental illness because prosecution witness's testimony about victim's mental health was summary and did not open the door to an entirely new line of inquiry on the subject

? Motions to dismiss
? First-degree murder; robbery with a dangerous weapon; discharging a firearm within city limits in violation of local ordinance
? Conflicting evidence of self-defense
? Substantial evidence of premeditation and deliberation
? Taking of weapon and murder were so linked in time to constitute a continuous transaction
? Failure to introduce city ordinance in evidence