Capacity hearing, due process, statutory right, indictment, felony child abuse, serious bodily injury.

Assault by strangulation; assault inflicting serious bodily injury; entry of judgment on both charges; evidence of two distinct assaults separated by period of time; defendant's consent to trial strategy involving admission of guilt; Harbison inquiry; ineffective assistance of counsel claim not suited for review on direct appeal; admission of DVPO; plain error

Possession of methamphetamine; challenge to admission of officer's lay opinion testimony that drugs in defendant's possession

404(b)evidence; Limiting instruction.

robbery with dangerous weapon, possession of firearm by felon, robbery, electronic monitoring, ankle monitor, text messages, ping, plain error, lay testimony, parole officer

Sentencing Factors, Prior Record Level, Prejudice

constructive possession; indicia of dominion and control; exclusive possession of premises

Murder; motion to suppress cell phone records; failure to preserve suppression argument by objection at trial; ineffective assistance of counsel claim not suited for review on direct appeal

First-degree forcible rape; first-degree forcible sexual offense; sufficiency of evidence of threat to use dangerous weapon; victim's reasonable belief defendant threatened her with deadly weapon; admission of 404(b) evidence of prior sexual assaults; challenge to closing arguments

N.C.G.S. 15A-1214, jury selection, reopen voir dire