Structured Sentencing Act; aggravating factors; evidence supporting aggravating factors; aggravated sentence; discretion of trial court; plea agreement; prejudicial error

Jury instructions; constructive possession; possession of firearm by a felon; PFF; attempted first-degree murder; speedy trial; speedy appeal; Barker factors

Competency to Stand Trial; Petition for Writ of Certiorari; Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

De novo just cause determination for disciplinary action taken against career State employee; whole record test; necessary factors for agency consideration in determining appropriate disciplinary action against career State employee.

Absolute Privilege; Quasi-Judicial Proceeding; Defamation

Appeal of interlocutory order denying motions for summary judgment; right to immediate appeal of order denying summary judgment on defense of governmental immunity; governmental immunity concerning actions of sheriff, sheriff?s detention officers, and county in operating county detention facility; waiver of governmental immunity.

interlocutory, substantive right, paternity

alienation of affection; criminal conversation; negligent infliction of emotional distress; intentional infliction of emotional distress; interlocutory appeal; NCGS 1A-1, Rule 42(b)(4); NCGS 1-267.1; NCGS 1-81.1; NCGS 1-277(a); NCGS 52-13.

Supplemental Proceedings and Subject-Matter Jurisdictions

Due Process, Equal Protection, Fruits of labor, Public Employee

Ecclesiastical abstention doctrine, neutral principles of law, subject matter jurisdiction, Rule 12(b)(1) motion to dismiss

Summary judgment, legal malpractice, settlement agreement, notarized, agreement to agree, binding agreement, material terms, statute of limitations, latent discovery.

grant Defendant's petition for writ of certiorari; probation revocation based on absconding; N.C. Gen. Stat., Sec. 15A-1343(b)(3a); competent evidence; waiver of State's presentation of evidence by in-court admission of the violations alleged; affirm activation of sentence; remand for clerical errors in judgment

Sentencing; invalid stipulation; question of law; prior conviction points; prior record level

motion to suppress; Anders brief; substantial assistance

Statutory right to confrontation at probation violation hearings, N.C. Gen. Stat. 15A-1345(e); absconding from supervision, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1343(b)(3a); clerical error in judgment revoking probation.

will; patent ambiguity; judicial interpretation; testator's intent

Certificate of Need; Demonstration project for limited-use MRI scanner; Change in project under N.C. Gen. Stat. 131E-176(16)(e)