Whether the Court of Appeals erred in determining that the trial court did not err in (1) denying defendant's motion to dismiss the charge under N.C.G.S. 90-95(h)(4) and (2) instructing the jury that opioids were included in the definition of 'opium or opiate' under N.C.G.S. 90-95(h)(4).

Whether the sentencing court's findings of the mitigating factors under N.C.G.S. 15A-1340.19B support defendant's juvenile sentence to life without parole, and whether defendant's claims under J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B., 511 U.S. 127 (1994) are procedurally barred under N.C.G.S. 15A-1419(a)(3).

Whether defendants adequately preserved arguments in their post-trial motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict where those arguments were not specifically articulated in their corresponding motion for directed verdict.

class action, motion to dismiss, personal jurisdiction, failure to state a claim, governmental immunity, substantial right, interlocutory appeal, jurisdiction, dismissed

notice of appeal, certificate of service, Rule 3, Rule 26

Office of Administrative Hearings; OAH; Administrative Law Judge; ALJ; interview; career-status employee; priority; back pay; salary range; de novo; whole record; arbitrary; capricious; whimsical; findings of fact; material facts; calculation; damages; abandoned on appeal

Disposition order; abuse, neglect, dependency; abuse of discretion; case plan requirements; steps towards reunification; remedying conditions that led to juvenile's adjudication; injurious living environment; medical abuse; best interests of the juvenile.

termination of parental rights; N.C.G.S. 7B-1104 compliance; subject-matter jurisdiction

abused and neglected juveniles; appropriate alternative child care arrangement; dependency adjudications vacated

termination of parental rights; neglected juvenile; legal guardianship; understand legal significance of appointment; abuse of discretion

juvenile code; best interests; guardianship; visitation; permanency planning; ineffective assistance of counsel

Award of custody to a non-parent;
Permanency planning order;
Required N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7B-906.2(d)(3) (2023) findings;
Adequate Resources;

termination of parental rights, findings of fact, N.C.G.S. 7B-111(a)(1)

accident; industrial commission; discipline; workplace; inappropriate language; tort; findings of fact; conclusions of law; employee

public official immunity, negligence, summary judgment

Felony breaking or entering a motor vehicle; Felony larceny; Plain Error; Waiver; Confrontation Clause; Recorded Recollection

attempted first degree murder; assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury; AWDWIKISI; error; plain error; grossly improper; closing argument; silence; shooting; handgun; Fifth Amendment; Miranda; prejudice; untimely objection; unpreserved error.

Anders brief