Driving while impaired; warrantless traffic stop; anonymous tip; reasonable suspicion; no indicia of reliability, no corroboration; motion to suppress.

rape; sexual battery; jury instructions; victim; complaining witness; expert testimony; credibility; consistent with; plain error; prejudice; vouching

Criminal Convictions, Attorney-Client Impasse, Unpreserved Objection

Solicitation of a Minor by Computer; Entrapment Jury Instruction; de novo review

N.C. Gen. Stat. Section 15A-1331.2; Prayer for judgment continued; Jurisdiction to enter judgment after entry of prayer for judgment continued; Legislative intent; Statutory construction

expert testimony (Daubert, McGrady); motion to suppress; motion to dismiss

right to remain silent; Rule 404(b)

motion to quash subpoena

Priority of lien; void satisfaction; Union Central Life Insurance v. Cates; exception to pure race priority recordation; Rule 12(c)- judgment on the pleadings; bona fide purchaser for value.

Appeal from a decision of the Court of Appeals vacating an order authorizing respondent's continued involuntary commitment for failure to comply with N.C.G.S. 122C-266; whether the issue on appeal was automatically preserved and if so, whether respondent was required to show prejudice before the order could be vacated.

Review of recommendation for public reprimand

Civil liability of director of bankrupt company under N.C.G.S. 78A-56(a)(2); whether the Director Safe Harbor provision of N.C.G.S. 55-8-30 provides a defense; whether the director found liable should receive a new trial because the trial court entered judgment on inconsistent jury verdicts.

Whether defendant preserved his constitutional challenge based on Grady v. North Carolina to the imposition of lifetime satellite-based monitoring after he pleaded guilty to statutory rape and indecent liberties; whether the Court of Appeals erred in invoking Appellate Rule 2 to consider defendant's argument on appeal if this issue was not properly preserved.

Appeal from trial court's order allowing defendant's motion to suppress evidence found after a traffic stop; whether the trooper who detained defendant for speeding and then arrested him for DWI had probable cause to arrest defendant for DWI.

Whether the Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the
State's appeal from a trial court's order expunging records of petitioner-defendant's conviction for one count of indecent liberties.

Whether an indictment charging defendant with manufacturing marijuana in violation of N.C.G.S. 90-95(a)(1) was fatally defective because it did not allege an 'intent to distribute.'

Appeal from Court of Appeals decision reversing lower court's denial of defendant's motion for appropriate relief following his conviction for sexual offenses against a minor; whether the court erred in admitting testimony at trial under Evidence Rule 404(b) regarding defendant's alleged prior sexual misconduct; whether defendant's appellate counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to argue plain error in admission of that evidence, thus causing the COA to dismiss defendant's direct appeal from his convictions.

Appeal from conviction for second-degree murder; whether the trial court committed prejudicial error by sending numerous pictures of the decedent's body into the jury room; plain error review of the trial court's jury instructions concerning the aggressor doctrine in relation to defendant's claim of self-defense.

Appeal from conviction for child sex offense; whether the superseding short-form indictment charging defendant was facially defective because it did not refer to the alleged victim by name.