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United States of America v. Ronald Lallatin

Boise, ID - Boise Man Pleads Guilty to Possession of Child Pornography

Ronald Lallatin, 60, of Boise, pleaded guilty in United States District Court to possession of child pornography.

According to the plea agreement, in June of 2016, agents with the Department of Homeland Security served a search warrant on Lallatin’s residence in Boise, Idaho, based upon evidence that a compute

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United States of America v. Malcolm Thompson

The defendant, Malcolm
Thompson, pled guilty to distribution of heroin and cocaine base,
in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). Although the parties agreed
that Thompson's guidelines sentencing range was thirty to thirtyseven
months, the district court imposed an upwardly variant
sentence of forty-eight months in prison. Thompson now appeals,
arguing that this sentence is b

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STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. ALLISON NASTA, a/k/a ALLISON BONNAR

We first summarize the relevant facts and procedural history.
On August 28, 2012, at approximately 12:45 p.m., defendant crashed
her minivan into a light pole while driving on the Black Horse
Pike in Pleasantville. Defendant's husband, William Nasta, sat
in the front passenger seat, and their two-month-old and five
year-old daughters occupied the rear seat. William died

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QUENTIN MARCUS TRUEHILL vs. STATE OF FLORIDA

Quentin Truehill, who was twenty-two years old at the time, was charged
with the kidnapping and murder of Vincent Binder, who was twenty-nine years
old. Truehill’s crime spree began on the evening of March 30, 2010, at the
Avoyelles Parish Sheriff’s Office in Mansura, Louisiana, when Truehill and two
other cellmates, Kentrell F. Johnson1 and Peter Hughes,2 held the holding-cel

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Thomas E. Stettler v. State of Indiana

In 2012, Stettler, then eighteen years old, lived in a house in Muncie with his
mother, his fiancée, and their infant son. In prior years, Stettler and his mother
had shared a house with numerous relatives, including S.Y.; S.Y.’s sister, C.Y.;
and their mother.
[5] On the evening of Friday, October 26, 2012, Stettler’s mother invited S.Y., then
twelve years old, and C.Y.

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STATE OF MONTANA v. MARKUS HENDRIK KAARMA

In April 2014, the Missoula, Montana, home Kaarma and his partner Janelle
Pflager (Pflager) shared with their infant son was burglarized two times. Each time the
burglar entered the garage through the partially open garage door. Concerned about
safety, Kaarma and Pflager installed security cameras in and around their garage,
changed how they parked their cars, started locking

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Matthew Carabajal a/k/a Mathew K. Carabajal Jacoby v. City of Cheyenne, Wyoming, Josh Thornton and Michael Sutton

Plaintiffs-Appellants Mathew Carabajal and his son, V.M.C., through
Mathew and V.M.C.’s mother, Arianna Martinez, appeal from the district court’s
judgment in favor of Defendants-Appellees Officers Joshua Thornton and Michael
Sutton, and Defendant-Appellee City of Cheyenne (“the City”). On appeal,
Plaintiffs challenge the district court’s grant of a motion to dismiss Plaintiffs’

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Keydrin Arceneaux v. The State of Texas

The complainant is K.J., a girl who was five months old at the time of her
death. K.J.’s mother, Laquisha Jackson, had begun dating appellant after she
became pregnant with K.J. Before Jackson gave birth to K.J., she and appellant
moved into a two-bedroom apartment with appellant’s father and appellant’s
father’s girlfriend. After K.J.’s birth, Jackson continued to live with ap

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STATE OF KANSAS v. DONALD W. ESTELL, JR

Estell was charged with aggravated battery against Rippetoe stemming from events that occurred on July 15, 2015, in Kansas City, Kansas. Soon thereafter, on July 20, 2015, Rippetoe was found murdered. Much of the following account of what happened on July 15, 2015, comes from Rippetoe's friend, Angela Findley, through her interview with the police and her testimony at the preliminary hearing.

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MICHAEL L. KING vs. STATE OF FLORIDA

King was sentenced to death for the 2008 murder of Denise Amber Lee.
King v. State, 89 So. 3d 209, 212 (Fla. 2012). This Court detailed the facts of the
murder and subsequent trial in King’s initial appeal:
[O]n January 17, 2008, at approximately 3:30 p.m., Nathan Lee returned to his home on Latour Avenue in North Port, Florida, to find his wife, Denise Amber Lee, missing. The do

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TAVARES DAVID CALLOWAY vs. STATE OF FLORIDA

On January 21, 1997, eighteen-year-old Anthony Strachan was at home in
his family’s apartment on 580 Northwest 64th Street in Miami, cutting a friend’s
hair. Strachan went into the kitchen and, through the kitchen window, saw one of
his neighbors, “Shorty,” standing outside on 64th Street with two unknown men.
One man, who wore a skull cap and a heavy brown coat that resemble

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Jason W. Wagner vs. The State of Florida

The State filed a three-count information charging Reed with 1) attempted
second-degree murder of Dwight Lamar Murphy; 2) attempted second-degree
murder of Stephanie L. Jackson (“Jackson”); and 3) burglary of an occupied
dwelling accompanied by an assault or battery. Following trial, the jury found
Reed guilty of the lesser-included offense of aggravated battery as to Count 1 a

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State of Tennessee v. Brandon Taliaferro

This case arose following the August 7, 2012 shooting death of the victim, Jernario Taylor. Thereafter, the Shelby County Grand Jury charged the Defendant with one count of first degree murder in the attempt to perpetrate a robbery and one count of attempted especially aggravated robbery. A trial was held in the Criminal Court for Shelby County in July 2015.
Mallorie Brown testified that o

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Brandi Jessica Russell, v. The People of the State of Colorado

In March 2010, defendant Brandi Jessica Russell and her husband brought their
infant to a hospital with a broken femur. A doctor, worried that the child may have
been abused, contacted a social worker who then contacted Grand County Department
of Social Services. A social worker interviewed Russell and, worried she was on drugs,
obtained a court order for a drug test. The dr

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Joseph Weber v. The State of Texas

After dating Susan Smith for several months, Weber moved in with Smith and her 3
infant son N.M. Approximately one year later, Smith gave birth to her and Weber’s son E.W. When
N.M. was approximately four years old, N.M. told Smith that Weber had touched himself in front
of N.M. and “had played games with [N.M.] and” E.W., and Smith also noticed N.M. “behaving in
an abnormal way,

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STATE OF KANSAS v. NICHOLAS CORBIN

The facts are undisputed. Nicholas Corbin and his girlfriend, Desirah Overturf, decided to stop feeding their infant son when he turned 2 months old. In addition to starving the baby, Corbin (1) held him upside down by his feet in a stream of water to bathe him and (2) burned his stomach with a hot baby bottle. When the couple did feed their son, Corbin held the baby's arms behind his back.

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO v. JADRIAN LUCERO

A few days after giving birth to Baby, Mother, who was fifteen years old at the
8 time, took the newborn home from the hospital to live with Baby’s Grandmother.
9 Defendant also moved into Grandmother’s house to help Mother. In the weeks that
10 followed, the young parents lived together and shared the responsibility of caring for
11 Baby. Defendant would help feed and bathe Baby,

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State of Vermont Supreme Court v. Stuart Cleland

On June 7, 2013, after a nearly month-long investigation regarding a clandestine
methamphetamine operation, a detective with the Vermont State Police applied for and obtained a
warrant to search the residence and curtilage at a specified address on Windmill Point Road in
Alburg, Vermont. The search warrant was executed three days later by the state police and
associated law en

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Terral Lerron Golden v. State of Indiana

On September 15, 2015, Lacy Patton (“Patton”) and his friend Arles Slaven
(“Slaven”) went to a home on Douglas Road in St. Joseph County, Indiana.
The home was known as a drug house, and Patton and Slaven went there to
locate Haeli Stevenson (“Stevenson”), the mother of Patton’s infant son.
Stevenson had gone to the house with her baby so that she could buy marijuana
from

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Dondre Johnson v. The State of Texas

Appellant was married to Rachel Hardy, who owned and operated Johnson
Family Mortuary (Rachel Johnson d/b/a Johnson Family Mortuary) (“the funeral
home” or “the mortuary”). Appellant worked for Hardy at the funeral home. The
business practices were abominable. Hardy also ran a tax business, Rachel J.
Hardy d/b/a Mighty Dollar Tax Refund Service. She freely comingled persona

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State of Tennessee v. Mario Cruz Estrada

On January 1, 2014, the victim, Charles Davis, and his wife, Tasha Davis, lived with their four children on Rabbit Trail Road in Lawrence County, Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Davis additionally cared for the four-year-old and infant daughters of Ms. Davis’s sister, Crystal Carranza. Ms. Carranza was about to begin a one-year incarceration and could not care for her children herself.

That d

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Lamont Johnson v. State of Tennessee

In 2010, a Gibson County jury found the petitioner guilty of first degree murder in the perpetration of aggravated child abuse for the death of his five-month-old daughter. The petitioner was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole, and he appealed. On direct appeal, this Court summarized the factual and procedural history of the petitioner‟s case as follows:

On March 1

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Beth Montgomery v. State of Indiana

Montgomery suffers from depression, chronic migraine headaches, and chronic
back pain. She took anti-depressant and pain medications during and after her
pregnancy with B.B. On August 27, 2014, Montgomery was admitted to the
hospital and delivered B.B. During and following the delivery, Montgomery
suffered from complications that required emergency medical treatment. B.B. <

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State of Oklahoma v. Brandon Wade Nordstedt

Tulsa, OK - Man Sentenced To Life In Prison Without Parole For Killing Infant

The States of Oklahoma charged Brandon Wade Nordstedt, age 23, with child abuse murder in vipolation of 21 O.S. 701.7, which provides in part:

"C. A person commits murder in the first degree when the death of a child results from the willful or malicious injuring, torturing, maiming or using of unreason

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Leon Davis, Jr. v. State of Florida

STATEMENT OF FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
The Events at Headley Insurance
The evidence introduced at Davis’s trial revealed the following. Around
3 p.m. on December 13, 2007, Davis entered the Lake Wales location of the
Headley Insurance Agency (Headley) with the intent to commit robbery. Davis
was armed with a loaded .357 magnum revolver and equipped with duct tape, a <

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