Workers' Compensation

Release agreement; Rules 12(b)(6) and 12(c)

DUI checkpoint; right to call witness or attorney

Work-related injury; concurrent claims before Industrial Commission in civil court; interlocutory appeal from trial court's denial of summary judgment to L.L.C. that was sole member-manager of injured worker's employer

Ajudication and dispositional order finding abuse under N. C. G. S. Section 7B-101(1); whether trial court erred by stating which parties abused the child instead of simply stating that the child met the statutory definitions of an abused juvenile.

N. C. G. G Section 7B-1104(5); whether failure to attach copy of custody order to petition to terminate parental rights deprived trial court of subject matter jurisdiction.

Eminent domain; valuation of a new utility easement located within an existing easement.#+#

Statutory inpterpretation; scope of review of final agency decision under N. C. G. S. Section 150B-51(c).

Whether second-degree kidnapping charge should be dismissed when defendant is charged and convicted of robbery with a dangerous weapon

Whether the State presented sufficient evidence to support defendant's convictions for perjury and making false statements in his affidavit of indigency.

Constitutionality of county noise ordinance

First-degree murder (non-capital); whether a defendant who establishes that he was unable to tell right from wrong when he committed the crime is entitled to a jury instsruction on the lesser-included offense of second degree murder.

Defendant's Blakely-complaint admission that he was on pretrial release at the time of the offenses allowed trial court to impose aggravated sentences; sufficient evidence existed to support defendant's conviction for discharging a weapon into occupied property; no entitlement to new sentencing hearing.

First-degree burglary; variance between underlying felony specified in indictment and felony described in jury instructions; prejudicial effect.