In the midafternoon of July 5, 2014, the vehicle in which Appellant was
riding as a passenger was pulled over by Trooper Ronald Nelson for speeding.2
Trooper Nelson testified that, as he approached the vehicle, he detected the odor
of marijuana.3 When the driver, Alexia Gonzalez, admitted that she did not have
a driver’s license, Trooper Nelson asked her to exit the vehicle. ... More...   $0 (11-25-2017 - TX)

Mobile, AL - Illegal Alien Sentenced to 108 Months for Illegal Reentry and Gun Violation

United States District Judge William H. Steele sentenced Pedro Quintero-Enriques, a.k.a. Miguel Angel Quintero, 37, from Michoacán, Mexico, to 108 months imprisonment for illegal reentry into the United States and for being a felon in possession of firearms. The judge ordered that Quintero-Enriques p... More...   $0 (11-25-2017 - AL)

In 2012, Agent Albert Kinsey of the Department of Homeland Security utilized
Child Protective System software to identify individuals in Montana engaged in file
sharing of child pornography. Based on Agent Kinsey’s investigation, four different
Internet Protocol (IP) addresses in Montana were identified to be associated with child
pornography images. Each IP address had file... More...   $0 (11-24-2017 - MT)

This case arises from evidence a police officer found in a vehicle that the
Petitioner had been driving before it crashed. With regard to this evidence, a Williamson County grand jury indicted the Petitioner for initiating the process to manufacture methamphetamine, driving with a suspended, cancelled, or revoked license, and driving with a suspended, cancelled, or revoked license–6th offens... More...   $0 (11-20-2017 - TN)

{¶1} Appellant, Vincent Artez Croff, appeals his conviction for possession of
cocaine in violation of R.C. 2925.11, a fifth-degree felony with a forfeiture specification.
We affirm.
{¶2} Croff raises four assigned errors:
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{¶3} “[1.] The court erred in dismissing appellant’s motion to dismiss for speedy
trial violation.
{¶4} “[2.] The court erred in overruli... More...   $0 (11-20-2017 - )

Nashville, TN - Former Rutherford County Tennessee Sheriff's Chief Administrative Deputy Sentenced on Federal Corruption Charges - Former Sheriff Previously Sentenced to 50 Months; Sheriff’s Uncle Also Sentenced in Scheme

A former Rutherford County Sheriff Chief Deputy of Administration was sentenced on November to 15 months in prison for operating a private electronic cigarette company i... More...   $0 (11-20-2017 - TN)

On May 14, 2012, Tracy Hands, a property officer for the Sexual Predator Treatment Program (Program) at Larned State Hospital (Larned), delivered mail to Gary Marks. Hands could feel there was something hard in the envelope. He notified campus safety security and told them he suspected the letter might contain contraband. Hands and Brian Stahlecker, a lieutenant with safety security, gave the piec... More...   $0 (11-19-2017 - KS)

After Quinlan police officer David Nalls observed a vehicle swerving and its two right
wheels crossing over the solid white line separating the lane of traffic from the partially paved
shoulder, he initiated a traffic stop. That stop and the ensuing actions of the driver, Douglas John
Manifold, Jr., resulted in Manifold being convicted by a Hunt County jury for possession of a
... More...   $0 (11-17-2017 - TX)

Police officer trainee Bret Cornell, while off-duty and in street clothes, went for a
run one morning in Golden Gate Park, stopping for a brief rest on a knoll called Hippie
Hill. Two uniformed patrol officers in the area spotted him, thought he looked
“worried,” and grew suspicious because the bushes on Hippie Hill are known for illicit
drug activity. As the patrolmen began to app... More...   $0 (11-17-2017 - CA)

A jury found Steven Meisel guilty of distributing and possessing child
pornography. See 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(2), (a)(4)(B). Meisel asserts the district
court (1) violated his right to present a complete defense by preventing him from
adducing alternative perpetrator evidence1; and (2) erred in denying his request to
instruct the jury on “identity.” Even assuming the district court e... More...   $0 (11-14-2017 - KS)

{¶1} Appellant, the State of Ohio, appeals from the judgment of the Medina County
Court of Common Pleas, granting Appellee, Michael Bramley’s, motion to suppress. This Court
reverses.
I.
{¶2} While aiding the Drug Task Force, Officer Kelly Moran was asked to follow a
truck that had just left a suspected drug house. The truck had two occupants: the driver and his
passenger, ... More...   $0 (11-13-2017 - OH)

The following facts are largely taken from the suppression
motion hearing testimony of Bridgewater Township Police Department
Officers Anthony DiGraziano and Kevin Florczak. No other witnesses
testified.
On March 20, 2013, at approximately 7:00 p.m., anti-crime
team undercover officers DiGraziano and Florczak were parked in
an unmarked police vehicle in the parking l... More...   $3 (11-13-2017 - NJ)

A little over two years into the civil-rights suit brought by Joan Mullin (“Mullin”) over the tragic prison suicide of her son, Robert Mullin (“Robert”), Mullin’s attorney received a discovery document with the potential to reshape the case. A previously undisclosed investigative report about the night
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Robert died contained statements by fellow New Jersey inmates about a prison guard who... More...   $0 (11-13-2017 - NJ)

On October 17, 2016, the State charged Burton with Class A misdemeanor
operating a vehicle while intoxicated, Class B misdemeanor operating a vehicle
while intoxicated endangering a person, and Class C misdemeanor operating a
motor vehicle without ever receiving a license. On November 28, 2016, Burton
moved to suppress evidence obtained pursuant to a warrantless search of his ... More...   $0 (11-11-2017 - IN)

{1} This case concerns the inventory search exception to the warrant requirement.
4 The Court of Appeals concluded that the inventory search that occurred in this case
5 was invalid because Defendant Wesley Davis did not possess the backpack searched
6 at the time of arrest as the backpack was not “on his person or in his physical
7 possession . . . .” State v. Davis, 2016-NMCA-073... More...   $0 (11-09-2017 - NM)

In 2012, Agent Albert Kinsey of the Department of Homeland Security utilized
Child Protective System software to identify individuals in Montana engaged in file
sharing of child pornography. Based on Agent Kinsey’s investigation, four different
Internet Protocol (IP) addresses in Montana were identified to be associated with child
pornography images. Each IP address had files... More...   $0 (11-08-2017 - MT)

Following a preliminary hearing in the magistrate court in Carlsbad, New
13 Mexico, the district attorney filed a criminal information in the district court charging
14 Defendant with eighteen counts of sexual exploitation of children (possession) in
15 violation of Section 30-6A-3(A). Pursuant to State v. Olsson, 2014-NMSC-012, 324
16 P.3d 1230, an amended criminal complaint was ... More...   $0 (11-08-2017 - NM)

The facts are taken from the testimony at the suppression hearing held on June
18 11, 2015, unless otherwise noted. New Mexico State Police Sergeant James R.
19 Foreman responded to a call from dispatch on February 2, 2015 around 3:30 p.m.
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1 concerning a man “slumped over the steering wheel” of his vehicle in the parking lot
2 of Dino’s Mini-Mart in Farmington, New Mexico. Th... More...   $0 (11-08-2017 - NM)

Defendant Lamonte Brewer seeks a writ of mandate directing the trial court to
grant his motion to set aside an information charging him with three gun possession
crimes. Defendant argues that the magistrate conducting the preliminary hearing should
have suppressed evidence of a gun that police found during a search of a car, and that
absent the gun evidence, the charges were not su... More...   $0 (11-08-2017 - CA)

Police seized Pippin’s cell phone and other evidence from his residence
when they executed a search warrant issued on December 15, 2012. Police had
obtained the warrant during their investigation into multiple rape and burglary
offenses. After Pippin’s phone was seized, it was secured in the property room of the
Delhi Township Police Department.
{¶3} On December 18, 2012... More...   $0 (11-06-2017 - OH)

Defendant-appellant Jamar Hamilton was convicted of one count of
possession of heroin, a felony of the fifth degree, one count of possession of heroin, a
felony of the first degree, one count of trafficking in heroin, a felony of the first
degree, and one count of tampering with evidence, a felony of the third degree. He
was sentenced to 11 years in prison for each of the firs... More...   $0 (11-06-2017 - OH)

After Dwinal was charged with possession of methamphetamine with intent to
deliver, he filed a motion to suppress the evidence and testimony regarding the items seized
from his vehicle after Officer Dustin Henderson initiated a traffic stop and to suppress evidence of
testing performed on the seized items, and the district court convened a hearing on the motion.
During the hearing,... More...   $0 (11-04-2017 - TX)

After receiving a number of citizens’ complaints concerning suspicious
activity around Butler’s home, the City of Freeport Police Department assigned
Officer M. Christopoulos, a narcotics investigator and a member of the Brazoria
County Narcotics Task Force, to conduct surveillance there. Christopoulos spent
close to a year watching Butler’s home. He observed Butler at the ho... More...   $0 (11-04-2017 - TX)

After the trial court denied his motion to suppress a loaded
handgun seized by the police, defendant pled guilty to second
degree unlawful possession of a handgun, N.J.S.A. 2C:39-5(b)
(count one); and fourth-degree possession of a defaced firearm,
N.J.S.A. 2C:39-3(d) (count two). The court sentenced defendant
to five years in prison on count one with a forty-two month peri... More...   $0 (11-02-2017 - NJ)

A long-time confidential informant saw Mario Watkins in his Evansville home with a gun, cocaine, and marijuana. After receiving this tip, Evansville police got a search warrant, surveilled the house, and decided to send in the SWAT team. The team met to plan the warrant execution, taking into account the layout of the house, Watkins’s violent criminal history, and the danger posed by four adults w... More...   $0 (10-31-2017 - IN)