N.C. Smoking Ban; Statutory Interpretation; Equal Protection

Moot

State?s right to appeal grant of motion to suppress in delinquency proceeding

Structured Sentencing Act

Hearing request by defendants to determine that plaintiff employee is permanently and totally disabled; standing of defendants to request such hearing; joinder of putative beneficiaries of death benefits claim; and findings of fact based on speculative expert testimony; denial of attorney's fees.

Governmental immunity

Prior Pending Action; Subject Matter Jurisdiction; Relationship Between Caveat and Challenges to Inter Vivos Transfers

Discovery violations by the State; admission of expert testimony of Spanish interpreter in light of discovery violation; no prejudice by discovery violation; and trial court's denial of defendant's requested jury instruction.

Reasonable suspicion for detaining defendant for a canine unit

Presumptive-range sentencing

Co-defendant testimony; prejudice

Doctrine of forfeiture by wrongdoing

Holder of note; Judicial Notice

Due process; attorney discipline

Possessory lien

Review of recommendation for judicial suspension

Review of recommendation for judicial censure

Whether defendant made a valid waiver of his right to counsel under N.C.G.S. § 15A-1242

Admissibility of pornographic material featuring incest at trial under Rules of Evidence 403 and 404; whether defendant was convicted of an aggravated offense under N.C.G.S. § 14-208.6(1a) and thus subject to lifetime satellite-based monitoring