Fort Worth, TX - Haltom’s Jeweler Robber Sentenced to 262 Months in Federal Prison

Willie Thompson, Jr., 53, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was sentenced on January 25, 2018 by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to serve a total of 262 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in August 2017 to his role in the conspiracy to rob Haltom’s Jewelers in Grapevine, announced U.S. Attor... More...   $0 (01-25-2018 - TX)

As this court has stated repeatedly, families have a “wellelaborated
constitutional right to live together without
governmental interference.” Wallis v. Spencer, 202 F.3d
1126, 1136 (9th Cir. 2000); accord Kirkpatrick v. Cty. of
Washoe, 843 F.3d 784, 789 (9th Cir. 2016) (en banc); Burke
v. Cty. of Alameda, 586 F.3d 725, 731 (9th Cir. 2009); Rogers
v. Cty. of San Joaquin, 48... More...   $0 (01-23-2018 - AZ)

. The defendant, Anthony C. Manousos, appealsfromthejudgmentofconviction,renderedafter a jury trial, of arson in the first degree in violation of GeneralStatutes§ 53a-111(a)(1).Thedefendantclaims that the trial court improperly (1) denied his motions to suppress various tangible items collected from him, as well as oral statements that he made to the police during an investigatory stop and subsequ... More...   $0 (01-19-2018 - CT)

In 2015, Richard Myles lived in a small, one-bedroom apartment on the
second floor of a building in the Hampton Bay apartment complex with his
fiancée, Laura, and their 23-month-old son, David.2 While Laura worked two
jobs, Myles cared for David. He also sold marijuana to earn extra money.
Whenever he left the apartment, he carried his marijuana stash with him in a
gree... More...   $0 (01-16-2018 - TX)

Don Karns and Robert Parker filed civil rights actions against the New Jersey Transit Corporation (“NJ Transit”) and NJ Transit Officers Kathleen Shanahan and Sandra McKeon Crowe in their official and individual capacities, alleging violations of the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Officers Shanahan and Crowe arrested Karns and Parker for defiant trespass and obstruction of justice after... More...   $0 (01-14-2018 - NJ)

This is an appeal and cross-appeal from an anti-SLAPP ruling which granted the
defense motion to strike in part and denied it in part. (Code Civ. Proc.,1 § 425.16.)
Plaintiff and appellant Golden Eagle Land Investment, L.P. (Golden Eagle) and its
coplaintiff and appellant Mabee Trust (the Trust; sometimes together, Appellants)2 own
real property in the vicinity of Rancho Santa Fe. ... More...   $0 (01-14-2018 - CA)

The petitioner, Michael L. Washington ("Washington"), seeks review of a published court of
appeals decision affirming his judgment of conviction and the
circuit court's order denying his postconviction motion.1 He
asserts that the court of appeals erred in determining that, by his conduct, he waived his statutory right to be present at trial.

Washington specifically cont... More...   $0 (01-13-2018 - WI)

Des Moines Police Sergeant Ronald Kouski had just stepped into QuikTrip
for a hot dog when he “heard a loud screeching noise and then a loud collision.”
Kouski worked as a canine officer and his German Shepard partner was waiting in
the 2009 Crown Victoria. The officer looked out the store’s front window and
discovered a red pickup had struck his patrol car, pushing it across... More...   $0 (01-12-2018 - IA)

Anthony E. Hopkins pled guilty to willful injury resulting in bodily injury. See
Iowa Code § 708.4(2) (2013). This court affirmed his judgment on direct appeal.
See State v. Hopkins, No. 14-0916, 2015 WL 1331682, at *1-2 (Iowa Ct. App. Mar.
25, 2015).
Hopkins filed an application for postconviction relief (PCR) raising several
ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claims... More...   $0 (01-12-2018 - iI)

On April 17, 2006, pursuant to a guilty plea, the trial court convicted Carreon on two counts of burglary of a habitation, both second degree felonies. See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 30.02(c)(2) (West, Westlaw through 2017 1st C.S.). On the only count that is the subject of this appeal, the trial court sentenced Carreon to ten years’ confinement, suspended the sentence, and placed Carreon on communi... More...   $0 (01-12-2018 - TX)

This review proceeding arises out of a post-judgment
order charging a judgment debtor’s interests in four limited
partnerships and a limited liability company to satisfy the
judgment creditor’s judgment against him. The charging
order was issued over the limited partnerships’ and limited
liability company’s objections that ancillary provisions
included in the charging order... More...   $0 (01-11-2018 - OR)

Athens, GA - Methamphetamine Dealer Sentenced To 188 Months In Prison

Shannon Dale Cooper, age 33, of Sumner, Georgia, was sentenced to 188 months’ imprisonment for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine by United States District Court Judge C. Ashley Royal in Athens, Georgia on January 4, 2018.

In his plea agreement, Mr. Cooper admitted that on December ... More...   $0 (01-11-2018 - GA)

Oklahoma City, OK - Lawton Man Sentenced to More Than 32 Years for Violent Crimes

On January 5, 2018, JACKIE DUNCAN, 30, of Lawton, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 386 months in federal prison for his role in a robbery conspiracy, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.

A superseding indictment alleged that Duncan agreed with other member... More...   $0 (01-10-2018 - OK)

¶1 Smartcomm License Services, L.L.C. (Smartcomm) appeals
the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Appellees David
Alcorn Professional Corporation; David and Elizabeth Alcorn, Janus
Spectrum, L.L.C. (collectively, the Alcorn Defendants); and Jon Palmieri.
Smartcomm also appeals the trial court’s denial of an application for an
order to show cause. For the followi... More...   $0 (01-09-2018 - AZ)

In this common-law trademark case, Thomas McClary appeals from an order granting judgment as a matter of law to Commodores Entertainment Corporation (CEC) and converting a preliminary injunction into a permanent one against McClary and his corporation, Fifth Avenue Entertainment, LLC. The dispute concerned ownership of the mark “The Commodores,” the name of a famous Grammy Award–winning rhythm and... More...   $0 (01-09-2018 - FL)

Following the altercation with Defendant, Barela received treatment for a
10 concussion at Presbyterian Medical Center and her doctor reported a domestic
11 incident to the police. While at the hospital, Deputy Metzgar of the Bernalillo County
12 Sheriff’s Department recorded his interview with Barela, who alleged that on
13 December 2, 2009, Defendant had physically abused her a... More...   $0 (01-09-2018 - NM)

Investigative journalism has long been a fixture in the American press, particularly with regard to food safety.1 In the early 1900s, Upton Sinclair highlighted conditions in the meat-packing industry in The Jungle, a novel based on his time working incognito in a packing plant.2 This case also originates in the agricultural sector�a secretly-filmed expos� of the operation of an Idaho dairy fa... More...   $0 (01-09-2018 - ID)

In late 1998, the City of Modesto (the City), the City of Modesto Sewer District
No. 1 (the Sewer District) and the Modesto Redevelopment Agency (the RDA) sued
various retail dry cleaning businesses (dry cleaners) operating in Modesto together with
the manufacturers of dry cleaning equipment used at those dry cleaners, and the
manufacturers and distributors of dry cleaning solvent.... More...   $0 (01-08-2018 - CA)

The Petitioner’s convictions relate to an incident in which Darice Brown’s cell phone and handbag were taken from her and she was shot multiple times and left in a remote area. The incident was related to a drug transaction arranged by the victim, in which the Defendant and his codefendants thought they had received counterfeit cocaine from the drug dealer, who was a person known to the victim. ... More...   $0 (01-08-2018 - TN)

The Petitioner’s convictions relate to an incident in which Darice Brown’s cell phone and handbag were taken from her and she was shot multiple times and left in a remote area. The incident was related to a drug transaction arranged by the victim, in which the Defendant and his codefendants thought they had received counterfeit cocaine from the drug dealer, who was a person known to the victim. ... More...   $0 (01-08-2018 - )

On 10 April 2015, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant for an
apartment on Basin Street, in Charlotte, North Carolina. When the officers arrived
at the apartment, defendant was sitting in his car in front of the residence. Two
officers approached defendant in order to prevent any interference with the execution
of the search warrant, and remained near defendant ... More...   $0 (01-07-2018 - NC)

Kathleen McBride (McBride) sued Byron and Kalmia Smith (the Smiths) for
violating McBride’s rights with respect to a recorded easement over the Smiths’ property.
After sustaining demurrers to several versions of McBride’s complaint, the last without
leave to amend, the trial court entered judgment in favor of the Smiths. On appeal, we
conclude that McBride stated causes of action f... More...   $0 (01-04-2018 - CA)

Albuquerque, NM - Arizona Man Pleads Guilty to Intimidating Flight Crew and Flight Attendants Resulting in Emergency Landing in New Mexico

Robert Tomblin, 55, of Phoenix, Ariz., pled guilty on December 29, 2017 in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to interfering and intimidating flight crew members and flight attendants requiring an emergency landing in New Mexico.

Tomblin was ... More...   $0 (01-01-2018 - NM)

Appellant Carlos Morales asserts that the trial court erred in denying his motion to dismiss pursuant to chapter 27 of the Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code. Morales also asserts that the trial court abused its discretion in granting appellee David Barnes’s motion to disregard Morales’s reply to Barnes’s response to motion to dismiss. We affirm in part and reverse in part.
BACKGROUND
Ba... More...   $0 (12-31-2017 - )

Natasha Peters appeals the district court's decision revoking her probation and ordering her to serve her underlying prison sentence. Peters contends the district court should've given her another chance at probation rather than send her to prison.

But Peters admitted to the district court that she committed nine new criminal offenses while on probation. These new offenses gave the dist... More...   $0 (12-29-2017 - KS)