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, Supreme Court , 240A18 (Per Curiam) , Published
State v. Gentle

Appeal by defendant from order imposing lifetime satellite-based monitoring on grounds that the trial court did not make a finding of 'reasonableness' before ordering SBM; whether the Court of Appeals erred by dismissing defendant's untimely appeal from the trial court's order, to which he did not object at trial.

, Supreme Court , 24A18 (Per Curiam) , Published
State v. Thompson

Appeal from convictions for violations of the Controlled Substances Act following defendant's guilty plea; whether the trial court erred in denying defendant's motion to suppress incriminating evidence recovered from the trunk of his car; whether defendant was 'seized' within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.

, Supreme Court , 144A18 (Justice Robin Hudson) , Published
Pachas v. N.C. Dep't of Health & Human Servs.

Action seeking trial court's enforcement of its previous order requiring DHHS to use the federal poverty level for a family when determining petitioner's income eligibility for Medicaid benefits; whether the trial court properly dismissed the action for lack of jurisdiction because petitioner did not exhaust her administrative remedies before taking the issue directly to court.

, Supreme Court , 7PA17-2 (Justice Robin Hudson) , Published
In re J.A.M.

Appeal from a decision of the Court of Appeals that, on remand from this Court, affirmed a trial court's adjudication of neglect of a minor child; whether clear and convincing evidence supported the findings of fact on which the order was based.

, Supreme Court , 399PA16 (Justice Robin Hudson) , Published
Saunders v. ADP TotalSource Fi Xi, Inc.

Workers' Compensation; whether, when reviewing an appeal from an Industrial Commission decision that an attorney's fee was unreasonable, the superior court exceeded its authority under N.C.G.S. 97-90(c) and thus lacked subject-matter jurisdiction over the appeal.

, Supreme Court , 23A18 (Justice Cheri Beasley) , Published
State v. Rankin

Whether subdivision (a)(1) of N.C.G.S. 14-399, which generally prohibits littering, is an essential element of, or creates an exception to, that offense; whether an indictment that did not refer to the language in subdivision (a)(1) was fatally defective.

, Supreme Court , 57PA17 (Justice Cheri Beasley) , Published
State v. Johnson

Whether the trial court erred in denying defendant's motion to suppress his confession; whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that defendant's confession was involuntary and should have been suppressed; whether the error was prejudicial.

, Supreme Court , 295PA17 (Justice Mark Martin) , Published
State v. Wilson

Whether the trial court erred in denying defendant's motion to suppress evidence of a handgun seized from him at the scene of an ongoing police search for narcotics; whether the trial court's findings of fact were sufficient to support its conclusion of law that a Terry frisk of defendant was justified under the circumstances.

, Supreme Court , 409PA17 (Justice Mark Martin) , Published
Cooper v. Berger

Facial constitutional challenge to 2016 law making Cabinet appointees subject to the advice and consent of the North Carolina Senate.

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