constructive possession; driver of a vehicle; jury instructions; sufficiency of evidence

Case description: Statutory Sex Offense; Indictment; Facially Defective; N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15-144.2; Identify Victim

Eighth Amendment; N.C. Const. Art. I, § 27; gross disproportionality; N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1340.19B(a)(1); Miller v. Alabama; ex post facto law

pretrial identification, expert testimony, substitute expert

Fourth Amendment; enhancement provision; expert testimony

Motion for appropriate relief (MAR); ineffective assistance of counsel (IAC); successive or simultaneous representation of clients; alleged dual-representation conflicts.

First-degree murder; instruction on lesser-included offenses; relevance; closing arguments; expert testimony

Actual child victim not required to sustain an attempt conviction for taking indecent liberties with a child; motions to dismiss charges of indecent liberties and of child solicitation by computer for insufficiency of evidence that the defendant believed an adult undercover office posing as a minor was actually an underage female; alleged improper prosecutorial questioning; satellite-based monitoring (SBM)

sex offense with a child; prior acts testimony; Rule 403

Self-defense; defense of habitation; assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury; warning shot; no intent to kill.