Termination of parental rights; willful failure to make reasonable progress to correct the conditions which led to the children's removal from the home; trial court must consider parent's progress up to the date of the termination hearing; evidence did not show parent's failure to correct conditions was solely due to poverty.

Hidden Danger; Contributory Negligence; Negligence; Competent Evidence

Child custody proceeding; consent order; substantial change in circumstances; absence of findings in initial order; findings of fact; conclusions of law; sufficiency of the evidence; N.C. Gen. Stat. 50-13.7(a)

juvenile delinquency; Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination at the schoolhouse; Miranda warnings required when juveniles subjected to custodial interrogation at school; trial court erred in denying juvenile's motion to suppress statements made during custodial interrogation at school where no Miranda warnings were given

Trial court's jurisdiction over NGRI defendant was proper based on the plain language of N.C. Gen. Stat. 122C-62; physician not entitled to expand parameters of trial court's order

motion to continue, custody, cost and ability to pay for professional supervision

N.C. Gen. Stat. 105-283 true value, ad valorem property tax valuation

Juvenile delinquency; escalating conduct; acceptance of plea; abuse of discretion; commitment to YDC; N.C.G.S. 7B-2407; N.C.G.S. 7B-2411.

State's appeal from order allowing defendant's motion for appropriate relief; appellate jurisdiction; State's right to appeal grant of new trial based on ineffective assistance of counsel claim

Defendant's indictment was facially valid.

Attempted larceny conviction not an eligible count of larceny to support an indictment for felony habitual larceny under N.C. Gen. Stat. 14-72(b)(6)

Drug possession; sufficiency of evidence that seized item was controlled substance; authentication of controlled substance; possible contamination of substance; plain error; jury instructions on further deliberations; Allen charge

Capacity, competency, due process, involuntary commitment, not guilty by reason of insanity, plea

Single taking rule; prior record level calculation; prior conviction for possession of marijuana drug paraphernalia; all elements of present offense in prior offense; arrest judgment and new sentencing hearing

seizure under Fourth Amendment; defendant was seized under Fourth Amendment by officer's display of authority; traffic stop was not a voluntary encounter

motion to suppress, motion to dismiss, reasonable suspicion, offer of proof, police dog reliability

First-degree murder; innocence commission; Law of the Land clause; Due Process; Fourth Amendment; blood draw; DNA sample; ineffective assistance of counsel; inevitable discover; fruit of poisonous tree; coercion.

decedent-employee's workers' compensation benefits; marital status