Termination of parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1) and (7) (2019). No-merit review pursuant to Rule 3.1(e) of the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure.

Appeal from an order terminating respondent-mother's parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(2), (3), and (6); whether the juvenile was left in foster care or placement outside the home for the requisite 12-month statutory time period under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(2); whether the trial court made sufficient findings of fact to support its conclusion of law that grounds existed to terminate respondent's parental rights under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(3) and (6).

Termination of parental rights; whether the respondent-mother's failure to contact the child during the six months immediately preceding the filing of the petition supports the trial court's adjudication of willful abandonment under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(7).

Whether defense counsel conceded defendant's guilt to a charged offense without his prior consent so as to constitute a per se violation of his constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel.

Whether grounds existed to terminate the father's parental rights where there was never an adjudication of the minor child as abused, neglected or dependent and whether the evidence supports a finding that the father willfully abandoned his child.

Termination of parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1), (2), (6) (2019). No-merit review pursuant to Rule 3.1(e) of the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure.

Whether a pro se defendant seeking postconviction DNA testing in a first-degree murder case has sufficiently met the burden of the showing required under N.C.G.S. 15A-269 to be appointed counsel to assist him in the effort to obtain such testing.

Whether defendant's appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to cite to a line of cases that used a standard of review that is inapplicable in this case.

Termination of parental rights; Best interests of the child pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1110.