St. Paul, MN - Jury Finds Police Officer Not Guilty On Manslaughter Charge

The State of Minnesota charged Jeronimo Yanez with manslaughter for shooting and killing Philando Castile, age 32, during a traffic stop in 2016. Yanez stopped Castile based on having an inoperative brake light. When Yanez approached Catile's car, Castile told him that he had a gun in the car. Yanez reacted by s... More...   $0 (06-17-2017 - MN)

Oklahoma City, OK - Defendant Pleads Guilty To First-Degree Murder

The State of Oklahoma charged Jonathan Henry Grafton with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: ABOFF, ASSAULT & BATTERY UPON A POLICE OFFICER OR OTHER LAW OFFICER, in violation of 21 O.S. 646, 649-649.2, 650
Date of Offense: 07/06/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
GRAFTON, JONATHAN HENRY
Count #... More...   $0 (06-13-2017 - OK)

Wagoner, OK - Defendant Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter And Gets Life

The State of Oklahoma charged Maxx Tate Robinson with:

1. MURDER-FIRST DEGREE

The State charged that Robinson shot and killed Bill "Bob" Cline on April 1, 2014.

Robinson claimed that he shot Cline because he feared that Cline was going to kill him.

Cline had reputation of being viole... More...   $0 (06-13-2017 - OK)

We draw the following facts from the trial record. On
November 29, 2013, a police officer on patrol in Pennsville saw
a box truck parked in the wrong direction on a street. He also
observed that its tires were over the fog line, partially in the
roadway. The officer approached the driver and passenger, who
explained that they were looking for the right address to make a... More...   $0 (06-06-2017 - NJ)

In the fall of 2009, Shetamarah “Tamie” Willis met Perry, a sometime construction
worker and gravedigger, at a nightclub in Columbus, Mississippi. The two embarked on a
relationship that was physically intimate but not exclusive. Willis also was involved
romantically with James Henry. In April 2010, Willis told Perry that she did not want to take
their relationship any further beca... More...   $0 (06-05-2017 - MS)

Seven hundred and forty-two days after Nasahn
Davis was arraigned in the Boston Municipal Court on charges of
carrying a firearm without a license in violation of G. L.
c. 269, § 10(a), he filed a motion to dismiss under
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Mass.R.Crim.P. 36(b), 378 Mass. 909 (1979). That rule provides
that a criminal defendant who is not brought to trial within
twelve months o... More...   $0 (06-03-2017 - MA)

On August 28, 2015, appellant was indicted in Warren County Court of
Common Pleas Case No. 15CR31283 on the following counts: one count of engaging in a
pattern of corrupt activity in violation of R.C. 2923.32(A)(1), a felony of the second degree;
eight counts of grand theft of a motor vehicle by deception in violation of R.C. 2913.02(A)(3),
felonies of the fourth degree; ten ... More...   $0 (06-03-2017 - OH)

Fargo, ND - Jury Finds Defendant Guilty of Double Murder

The State of North Dakota charged Ashley Hunter with the murders of Clarence Flowers and Samuel Traut in June of 2015. Flowers was stabbed 77 time and Traut was killed by a hammer blow to his head.


Docket Entries:

06/24/2015 Information Doc ID# 1
06/24/2015 Incident Report Doc ID# 2More...   $0 (06-03-2017 - )

On March 24, 2016, Appellant Kenneth Holmes was arrested on one count
of Complicity to Commit Robbery, a felony of the third degree.
{¶4} On March 28, 2016, an initial appearance was held wherein the trial court
set bond at $75,000.
{¶5} On April 4, 2016, a preliminary hearing was held and the trial court bound
the case over to the Stark County Grand Jury.
{¶6} On M... More...   $0 (06-01-2017 - OH)

In this case, Bradley Graham, a juvenile offender convicted of one count of sex abuse in the third degree, challenges his lifetime special sentence of parole and the lifetime requirement that he register as a sex offender as cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution and under article I, section 17 of the Iowa Constitution. The district court held Gr... More...   $0 (05-29-2017 - IA)

This case comes before us on further review. The court of appeals, on discretionary review of the district court’s denial of the defendant’s motion to dismiss, reversed the district court and dismissed the charges against Deantay Williams, Taevon Washington, and Cordarrel Smith. On this further review, we focus solely on whether the defendants’ rights were violated by the failure to bring formal... More...   $0 (05-28-2017 - IA)

As noted earlier, a jury found Defendant guilty of carjacking and two counts of armed robbery. He used the vehicle from the carjacking in one of the robberies, which he committed at a bank in Lafayette Parish.
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ERRORS PATENT:
In accordance with La.Code Crim.P. art. 920, all appeals are reviewed by this court for errors patent on the face of the record. After reviewing the record, we f... More...   $0 (05-28-2017 - LA)

When Omar Arrington-Bey died in a Bedford Heights jail cell,
that was not an obvious consequence of his arrest for disturbing the peace at a Lowe’s store. The
question is whether bad luck, negligence by the relevant local law enforcement officials, or
deliberate indifference by them caused his death. In suing the officers involved in his arrest and
detention and the City, Omar’s mo... More...   $0 (05-26-2017 - OH)

The question for this Court, distilled to its essential form, is whether the
Constitution, as the Supreme Court declared in Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 2,
120 (1866), remains “a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace.” And if
so, whether it protects Plaintiffs’ right to challenge an Executive Order that in text speaks
with vague words of national security, ... More...   $0 (05-25-2017 - )

When, as here, a sentencing appeal follows a guilty
plea, we obtain the facts from the change-of-plea colloquy, the
unchallenged portions of the presentence investigation report,
and the record of the disposition hearing. United States v.
Dávila-González, 595 F.3d 42, 45 (1st Cir. 2010). "We rehearse
only those facts that are needed to put the claims of error into
c... More...   $0 (05-25-2017 - ME)

Boise City, OK - State of Oklahoma v. Richard Allen Boykin

1. DISTRIBUTION OF CDS-INCLUDING POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE

2. UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA

3. DRIVING WITH LICENSE CANCELLED/SUSPENDED/REVOKED

Docket
Date Code Description Count Party Amount
01-11-2016

CT 1 FILE, ENTER, SCAN INFORMATION (POSS W/IN... More...   $0 (05-23-2017 - OK)

¶1 This is the latest chapter in the legal saga of a young girl who was seriously
injured on her elementary school playground in late 2008. Alexa Rae Loveland, then
nine years old, fell while using the playground’s zip line apparatus and severely
fractured her wrist and forearm. Alexa and her parents filed a tort action against the
school district, seeking damages for Alexa’s injur... More...   $0 (05-22-2017 - CO)

On December 1, 2015, the defendant was charged by a bill of information for identity theft for the use of Jacueline Clark Wilson’s1 (Wilson) personal information for a Verizon cell phone account valued at $3,739. The defendant entered a guilty plea on September 13, 2016, and a presentence investigation report was ordered.
On November 16, 2016, the trial court sentenced the defendant to five ye... More...   $0 (05-21-2017 - LA)

Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the trial court and grant counsel’s motion to withdraw. We dismiss any other pending motions as moot. Nixon was charged by bill of information with two counts of distribution of marijuana, in violation of La. R.S. 40:966(A)(1), and one
count of distribution of cocaine, in violation of La. R.S. 40:967(A)(1). The... More...   $0 (05-21-2017 - LA)

In this personal injury case, Ronald Monroy sued Noble Energy, Inc. for negligence after he allegedly sustained injuries while unloading a truck on Noble’s property. After Monroy failed to timely respond to Noble’s requests for admissions,
Noble moved for summary judgment. While the case was pending in the trial court, Monroy died, and his wife and the personal representative of his estate, Ma... More...   $0 (05-18-2017 - TX)

On the evening of April 28, 2014, Julio Ruiz was visiting Adrian Molina at his house. Miguel Mariscal was also present. While Ruiz and Molina were in the living room, five members of the Sureño gang arrived at the house. Molina spoke to the men in the kitchen. Eventually, Molina informed Ruiz that the men were talking about "jumping" him and that he should leave. Ruiz believed that the men were th... More...   $0 (05-16-2017 - KS)

Mr. Celli was indicted for domestic violence involving his pregnant girlfriend,
N.H. He proceeded to trial and the jury found him guilty.
{¶3} Mr. Celli has timely appealed his conviction and raises three assignments of error.
II.
FIRST ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR
MR. CELLI’S CONVICTION IS IN VIOLATION OF THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTI... More...   $0 (05-14-2017 - OH)

The facts of this case are as follows. On December 18, 2015, a complaint
was filed in Sandusky County Municipal Court charging appellee with identity fraud. A
warrant was issued and appellee was arrested on the same date. Appellee was discharged
from custody on December 23, 2015. On that date, appellee executed a speedy trial
waiver.
{¶ 3} On February 24, 2016, appell... More...   $0 (05-13-2017 - OH)

Anchorage, AK - Anchorage Couple Found Not Guilty For Starting Sockeye Fire In 2015

The State of Alaska charged Greg Imig, age 61, and Amy DeWitt, age 43, with burning without a permit, burning without clearing area, uncontrolled spread of fire / Damage to property of another, failure to estingish / leaving fire unattended,criminally negligent burning, to the 2015 wildfire.

The f... More...   $0 (05-12-2017 - AK)

This is a consolidated appeal from two Athens County Common Pleas Court
judgments. In case number 15CA33, the jury found Mark Anthony Butcher, defendant below and
appellant herein, guilty of (1) aggravated burglary, in violation of R.C. 2911.11(A)(1), and (2)
trespass in a habitation, in violation of R.C. 2911.12(B). The trial court merged the two offenses
and sentenced appel... More...   $0 (05-12-2017 - OH)