motion to suppress, evidence, cocaine, narcotics, drug paraphernalia, Chore Boy, weapons, traffic stop, unlawful extension of traffic stop, Fourth Amendment, reasonable suspicion, incriminating circumstances, consent, preservation of objection, plain error, findings of fact, competent evidence, prejudice, ineffective assistance of counsel, IAC.

sentencing; concurrent; consecutive; trial court; statutory; sex; offense; oral; verbal; written.

Hearsay; plain error; clerical error

Sufficiency of the evidence; fatal variance; sex acts with a student; date or time of the offense; time not of the essence of the offense

possession of a firearm by a felon; resisting a public officer; jury instruction; defense of necessity; justification defense; ineffective assistance of counsel

closing argument, grossly improper, trafficking in cocaine

driving while impaired; motion to suppress; probable cause

Sufficiency of evidence to prove identity; proper jury instruction on acting in concert; ex mero motu intervention; ineffective assistance of counsel

possession of a firearm by a felon; cross-examination about prior convictions; N.C. R. Evid. 609(a); plain error review

habitual felon status; guilty plea; no statutory right to appeal