real estate financing transactions; North Carolina General Statute Chapter 45, Article 7; future advances; validity v. priority; deed of trust secured by real property; maturity date; record notice; summary judgment; affirmed and modified in part; reversed and remanded in part

Interlocutory appeal; substantial right; immunity from suit; release from liability, risk of inconsistent verdicts

Attorney?s fees, attorney charging lien, contingent fee agreement, contingency, levy, liens, personal property, priority

Waiver of right to assistance counsel; N.C. Gen. Stat. ?? 15A-942, 15A-1242; and new trial

first-degree murder, gun, self-defense, defense of another, verbal threats, character evidence, excluded evidence

Relevance, undue prejudice, substantially outweighed, improper closing statement, caretaker abuse, manipulation by defendant

no violation of the right to confrontation occurred during probation violation proceeding; ineffective assistance of counsel claim failed where there was no showing that counsel's performance was deficient; trial court did not abuse its discretion in finding that the defendant willfully failed to pay monies owed as a condition of probation

certiorari, attorney?s fees, restitution order, opportunity to be heard

probable cause, DWI, impaired, HGN Test, breath test, motion to suppress, totality of the circumstances