A jury convicted Appellant Ben McAlpine of aggravated assault of a
family/household member with a deadly weapon and assessed his punishment at life
imprisonment. In his sole issue, McAlpine asserts that the trial court erred in denying his
motion to suppress the statements he made after he invoked his right to remain silent.
We will affirm.
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On January 12, 2016, Aurora Police Department (APD) Officer Darren Martinez
spoke with Sampson at the Medical Center of Aurora. Officer Martinez was dispatched
to the hospital on a report that a stabbing victim had walked into the emergency room.
Sampson told Officer Martinez someone on the street had stabbed him while trying to
rob him, and a good Samaritan drove him to the

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

The complainant, J.G., testified that, on September 20, 2014, when she was
thirteen years old, appellant, who was her mother’s boyfriend, instructed her to go
into her mother’s bedroom, and he followed behind her, pushing her with his hand.
Once in the bedroom, appellant picked up J.G. and put her on the bed. Appellant
then removed her shorts and panties, got on top of her, k

This is an appeal from final orders terminating the parental rights of A.R.T. to R.B. and A.D.T. A.R.T questions the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence underlying the trial court’s finding that termination was in the best interests of the children and warranted under § 161.001(b)(1)(E) of the Texas Family Code. We affirm.
Standard of Review
The pertinent standards of review are

This is an appeal from final orders terminating the parental rights of A.R.T. to R.B. and A.D.T. A.R.T questions the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence underlying the trial court’s finding that termination was in the best interests of the children and warranted under § 161.001(b)(1)(E) of the Texas Family Code. We affirm.
Standard of Review
The pertinent standards of review are

A jury found appellant, Braulio Alvarado-Gutierrez, guilty of two offenses of aggravated sexual assault of a child1 and assessed his punishment at forty years’
1 See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 22.021 (West Supp. 2016).
2
confinement for each offense, to be served concurrently. In two issues, appellant contends that the trial court erred in admitting his recorded statement because he did no

In this consolidated writ proceeding, Jennifer S. (mother) and Kenneth S.
(father) seek extraordinary relief from the juvenile court order denying them both
reunification services with respect to their infant daughter, K.S. (born January 2017), and
setting a permanency planning hearing pursuant to section 366.26 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code.1
At the June 2017 dispositi

¶1 This is an appeal by Behrooz Mahmoodjanloo, father and custodial parent of two daughters, from the trial court's order denying his post-decree effort to relocate with his children to New York. Father argues the trial court misapplied the statutory burden of proof set forth in 43 O.S. Supp. 2004, § 112.3,1 the new relocation act, and we agree. He complains of the new statute's failure to follow

Thomas Leslie Mace appeals the modification of a protective order. On May
11, 2015, the trial court found that Mace and Jill Bowen had a dating relationship
and that family violence had occurred and was likely to occur in the future. The trial
court signed a protective order to remain in effect until May 11, 2017, prohibiting
Mace from communicating with Bowen in a threatening or h

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Co-defendant Richard Hennis previously sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for same offense

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Appellant L.S. (Mother) appeals the trial court’s termination of her parentchild
relationship with her son M.R. In two issues, she contends that (1) the trial
court committed fundamental error by not providing statutorily-required warnings
(“statutory warnings”) at the status and permanency hearings and (2) the
evidence is legally and factually insufficient to support the trial cou

The State charged Appellant, Milton Rolando Paz, with capital murder.1
Appellant pleaded not guilty. The jury found him guilty, and an automatic life
1
See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 19.02(b)(1) (West 2011), § 19.03(a)(8) (West Supp.
2016).
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The State of Nevada charged Nikki Shelley, age 23, with willful abuse, neglect or endangerment of a child.

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On August 16, 2013, Blaz’s infant daughter, Matti, died after being in Blaz’s care
for the day. Mattiwas born in June 2013, via cesarean section, and was approximately 53
days old at the time of her death. Dr. Walter Kemp, Deputy State Medical Examiner,
determined Matti’s cause of death to be craniocerebral and cervical trauma. Matti’s
autopsy revealed: (1) blunt force trauma

Bandy and an unknown accomplice attempted to rob Madaris and his
brother Steward at Ziegler Park, also known as Peaslee Park, in the early evening on
April 24, 2015. Bandy and his accomplice were both brandishing guns. Madaris
reacted by pushing the accomplice, causing him to drop his gun before running off.
Madaris then tussled with Bandy before ascending the fence on the s

During the morning of June 12, 2015, Johnson was walking toward his
mother’s Mishawaka home with his girlfriend, Precious Jackson (“Jackson”).
Jackson was carrying her infant son (who had been fathered by Johnson) in a
baby carrier; her three pre-school children were following behind her. The
couple began to engage in a heated argument about their relationship, drawing
t

Detective Brenan Cook of the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) received a report
from an informant that Nelson and his girlfriend, Reanna, were selling drugs out of a two-bedroom
apartment Reanna had leased. Over the course of several days, Cook spent approximately four to
five hours surveilling Reanna’s apartment in an unmarked patrol car. Cook saw multiple people
come to t

In July 2015, Hall was charged by trial information with murder in the first
degree and child endangerment resulting in serious injury. His three-year-old
daughter, J.K., was the alleged victim in each instance.
The charges were tried to a jury in January 2016.
The State’s first witness was Hall’s live-in girlfriend, April Clair. Clair
testified J.K. had been staying

Matthew Elliott was convicted of willful injury causing serious injury and
child endangerment resulting in death. On appeal, his convictions were vacated,
and the matter was remanded for a new trial. See State v. Elliott, 806 N.W.2d
660, 675 (Iowa 2011) (concluding the admission of hearsay evidence resulted in
prejudicial error to Elliott and remanding for a new trial). On r

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