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, Supreme Court , 199PA16 (Justice Cheri Beasley) , Published
State v. Romano

Admissibility of blood test evidence obtained in DWI case; application of U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in Birchfield v. North Dakota and Missouri v. McNeely to N.C.G.S. 20-16.2(b), permitting warrantless testing of an unconscious person an officer reasonably believes to have committed an implied-consent offense.

, Supreme Court , 168A16 (Justice Cheri Beasley) , Published
Stokes v. Crumpton

Interlocutory appeal from trial court's order denying plaintiff's motion to allow discovery in conjunction with a pending motion to vacate a previous arbitration award and court order and judgment incorporating the terms thereof; whether the trial court's denial of the discovery request implicated a substantial right and thus entitled plaintiff to immediate appellate review of the order.

, Supreme Court , 167PA16 (Justice Barbara Jackson) , Published
State v. Godwin

Whether N.C. Rule of Evidence 702(a1) requires a witness in a DWI case to be qualified as an expert pursuant to Rule 702(a) before he may testify to the issue of impairment related to HGN results; whether the trial court erred in denying defendant's request for a special jury instruction explaining that results of a chemical breath test were not conclusive evidence of impairment.

, Supreme Court , 124A16 (Per Curiam) , Published
Murray v. Univ. of N.C. at Chapel Hill

Whether the trial court erred in denying defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's suit against the University; whether defendant properly raised a sovereign immunity defense before the trial court, thereby making defendant's interlocutory appeal from denial of its motion to dismiss immediately reviewable by an appellate court; whether plaintiff's complaint should be dismissed on mootness grounds.

, Supreme Court , 113PA16 (Justice Sam Ervin IV) , Published
State v. Miller

As-applied constitutional challenge to N.C.G.S. 90-95(d1)(1)(c), which makes it illegal for any person previously convicted of possessing or manufacturing methamphetamine to possess a pseudoephedrine product.

, Supreme Court , 97A16 (Justice Mark Martin) , Published
State v. Knight

Admissibility of statements that defendant made to police after he was taken into custody; whether defendant made a knowing and voluntary waiver of his Miranda rights; whether admission of the statements was error and, if so, whether the error was prejudicial.

, Supreme Court , 35PA16 (Justice Sam Ervin IV) , Published
State v. Baker

Appeal from conviction for attempted first-degree rape of a child; whether the trial court erred in failing to dismiss the attempted rape charge for insufficiency of the evidence.

, Supreme Court , 27PA16 (Justice Mark Martin) , Published
State v. Jones

Whether the State failed to prove the 'trespassory taking' element required for a conviction for felonious larceny.

, Supreme Court , 368PA15 (Justice Robin Hudson) , Published
Wilkes v. City of Greenville

Workers' Compensation; whether a worker for whom the employer admitted compensability for physical injuries sustained on the job can later recover medical compensation for treatment of anxiety and depression; whether the worker is entitled to continued payment of temporary total disability benefits.

, Supreme Court , 252PA14-2 (Justice Michael Morgan) , Published
State v. Campbell

Whether the Court of Appeals erred in invoking Appellate Rule 2 to consider defendant's unpreserved argument on appeal.

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