juvenile code; best interests; guardianship; visitation; permanency planning; ineffective assistance of counsel

termination of parental rights; neglected juvenile; legal guardianship; understand legal significance of appointment; abuse of discretion

Disposition order; abuse, neglect, dependency; abuse of discretion; case plan requirements; steps towards reunification; remedying conditions that led to juvenile's adjudication; injurious living environment; medical abuse; best interests of the juvenile.

Office of Administrative Hearings; OAH; Administrative Law Judge; ALJ; interview; career-status employee; priority; back pay; salary range; de novo; whole record; arbitrary; capricious; whimsical; findings of fact; material facts; calculation; damages; abandoned on appeal

notice of appeal, certificate of service, Rule 3, Rule 26

sentencing error, calculation of prior convictions, N.C.G.S. § 15A-1340.21(b). 

Anders brief; clerical error; prior record level calculation

guilty plea; due process; voluntarily and understandingly; direct consequences; sentencing; personal knowledge

Expert vouching; expert witness use of "disclose" and "victim"; ineffective assistance of counsel