Whether there is sufficient evidence of multiple assaults in the light most favorable to the State to submit the issue to the jury; whether there is sufficient evidence to establish that defendant used his hands, feet, or teeth as deadly weapons.

Whether the Georgia statutory rape statute under which defendant was previously convicted was substantially similar to North Carolina's statutory rape statute such that defendant's prior Georgia conviction could count as a higher penalty class for purposes of determining defendant's prior record level for sentencing.

Whether the trial court committed harmless error when it declined to give defendant's requested self-defense instruction.

Whether the trial court's order requiring defendant to submit to lifetime satellite-based monitoring once released from prison is constitutional when the determination as to whether the search effected by satellite-based monitoring is reasonable occurs decades before the search would likely take place.

Appeal based on a dissent seeking review of the trial court's denial of defendant's motion to dismiss.

Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the trial court's award of final decision-making authority to defendant; whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the trial court's award of attorney's fees to defendant.

Easement; quiet title; cloud upon title; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission License; FERC license; fee simple; contract; easement agreement; easement appurtenant; easement in gross; excessive use; Restatement of Property; third-party property rights; interlocutory appeal; summary judgment; scope of authority under easement; eminent domain; navigability; navigable waters; navigable-in-fact; riparian rights; public trust doctrine; artificial waters

Abuse, neglect, and dependency; sufficiency of findings; limitation of parental visitation; constitutionally protected status as parent; waiver of constitutional issue

Sale of property; competency; special proceeding pending; summary judgment for buyer; NCGS 32C-1-104- power of attorney; NCGS 32C-1-105- execution of power of attorney; NCGS 32C-1-106- validity of power of attorney.

career state employee, unacceptable personal conduct case, just cause

dismissal of career state employee with just cause, substantial evidence in the whole record supported administrative law judge's findings.

Rule 2, structural error, new trial

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.