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State v. Blackmon
Rules 403 and 404(b); prior incident; risk of unfair prejudice; ineffective assistance of counsel
State v. Brown
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
State v. Bunting
Sentencing; invalid stipulation; question of law; prior conviction points; prior record level
State v. Corbett
Second degree murder; admission of Rule 404(b) evidence; proper purpose for Rule 404(b) evidence; sufficiency of evidentiary foundation for Rule 404(b) evidence; motion to dismiss; sufficiency of evidence; malice; improper closing arguments
State v. Cox
Heroin trafficking; denial of motion to suppress; waiver of argument not asserted in trial court; denial of motion to dismiss; sufficiency of evidence of possession
State v. McConneaughey
Anders brief; no non-frivolous issues on appeal
STATE v. MILTON LANCASTER
ineffective assistance of counsel; pre-trial motion to suppress; plain error
State v. Robinson
motion to suppress; Anders brief; substantial assistance
State v. Thorne
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.
Suzette Marie Warren v. Darren Henry Gemzik
modifying custody order; substantial change of circumstances affecting welfare of the child; best interests of the child
Taylor v. Bank of Am., N.A.
Motion to Dismiss, Summary Judgment, Statute of Limitations, Res Judicata, Collateral Estoppel
Treadaway v. Payne
will; patent ambiguity; judicial interpretation; testator's intent
Wake Radiology Diagnostic Imaging LLC v. NC Dep't of Health & Hum. Servs.
Certificate of Need; Demonstration project for limited-use MRI scanner; Change in project under N.C. Gen. Stat. 131E-176(16)(e)
Zielinski v. Blackwell
Modification of child custody; change in employment and residence; review of evidence prior to permanent order; documents missing from court file; motion for new trial; findings to support award of attorney fees.
In re B.J.H.
Termination of parental rights; adjudication under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(2); evaluating parent's progress at the time of the adjudicatory hearing rather than subsequent dispositional hearing; parent's refusal to sign DSS case plan; lack of court order requiring parent's compliance with case plan.
In re D.C.
Appeal from order terminating respondents' parental rights; termination of respondents' parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(3); failure to pay for the cost of care for the juvenile; whether the trial court conducted the adjudicatory hearing under a fundamental misapprehension of the law.
In re D.J.
Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court erred by denying respondent's motion to continue; whether the trial court complied with the requirements of the Indian Child Welfare Act.
In re D.T.H.
Termination of parental rights based upon neglect by abandonment pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1), dependency pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(6), and abandonment pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(7).
In re J.D.D.J.C.
No-merit appeal pursuant to Rule 3.1(e) of the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure from an order terminating parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1), (2), (6), and (9).
In re K.B.
Appeal from an order terminating respondents' parental rights; whether the evidence supports the trial court's findings of fact and whether the findings of fact supports its conclusion that respondent-mother's parental rights should be terminated pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1) (2019); whether the trial court abused its discretion in concluding that it was in the children's best interests that respondent-father's parental rights be terminated.