Juan Doe appeals from an order of a judge of the
Superior Court denying his petition to seal his criminal record
in a case terminated by a nolle prosequi. We infer from the
order that, in balancing the interests of the public and the
defendant, as required by Commonwealth v. Pon, 469 Mass. 296
(2014), the judge may have relied upon a factor that is
inconsistent with

Brian Blackden is a part-time freelance photographer who
for years has sent photos to a bunch of regional-media outlets,
including Belsito Communications, Inc. (just "Belsito" from now
on). Belsito and Blackden filed this suit alleging that New
Hampshire State Trooper James Decker violated their constitutional
rights when he seized Blackden's camera at the scen

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The facts, as set out in Giger’s direct appeal, follow:
On February 2, 2002, Giger went to the home of his neighbor, Angela Husband. Husband was a prostitute and Giger paid her regularly with either money or drugs for sexual services. When Giger arrived at Husband’s, he had only a small amount of crack cocaine and told Husband he would return later if he could get more cocaine with which to

This case involves the homicides of Brian Day and his wife, Shannon, and the
attempted murder of their seven-month-old son, Trevor, which occurred in December
1997. The prosecuting attorney initially charged Howard with capital murder for the deaths
of Brian and Shannon and with the attempted capital murder of Trevor. A jury found
Howard guilty as charged, and he received two

On August 14, 2014, a Jefferson Parish Grand Jury indicted Defendant,
Terry Speaks a/k/a Allen Rice a/k/a Leslie Allen Rice a/k/a Leslie Rice, with the
second degree murder of Jaren Lockhart, in violation of La. R.S. 14:30.1 (count
one); obstruction of justice by tampering with evidence of a crime, to wit: the body
of Jaren Lockhart and/or the personal effects of Jaren Lockhart

Defendant, Joshua Jerome Ball, was convicted of carnal knowledge of a juvenile in Pointe Coupee Parish in 2005, and, as a result, was required to comply with the sex offender registration and notification requirements set forth in La.R.S. 15:540, et seq.
Defendant was charged by bill of information with failure to register as a sex offender, a violation of La.R.S. 15:542; failure to notify law

In 1981, Paul Beasley Johnson was convicted of, among other crimes, three
counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of William Evans, Daryl Ray Beasley,
Jr., and T.A. Burnham. Johnson v. State, 438 So. 2d 774, 775-76 (Fla. 1983). We
affirmed Johnson’s convictions and death sentences on direct appeal. Id. at 780.
After the Governor signed a death warrant for Johnson, we gr

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Appellant is in the newspaper business and runs LaNeta Newspaper in
Houston, Texas. The complainant, Luis Fernando Castro, is the supervisor of a
newspaper distribution company. On June 5, 2015, appellant and Castro got into
an argument at a Super K convenience store over whose newspapers would be
displayed in the rack. Appellant hit Castro in the face with a newspaper. Cast

This case is before us on a writ of error brought by the plaintiff in error, 3-D Bail Bonds, Inc. (plaintiff), who claims that the trial court improperly denied its motion seeking relief from its obligation on a surety bail bond (bond) pursuant to General Statutes§ 54-65c,whichthetrialcourthadorderedforfeited after the principal on that bond, Angel Agron, who is the criminal defendant in the under

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 <

Over two decades after Victim’s murder, a DNA analysis linked Defendant and his brother Cecil McBenge1 to evidence found on or near Victim’s property shortly after she was killed. In separate underlying cases, Defendant and Cecil were each charged with and found guilty by a jury of first-degree murder based on accomplice liability.2 The State’s fourth
substitute information in lieu of indic

Over two decades after Victim’s murder, a DNA analysis linked Defendant and his brother Brian McBenge1 to evidence found on or near Victim’s property shortly after she was killed. In separate underlying cases, Defendant and Brian were each charged with and found guilty by a jury of first-degree murder based on accomplice liability.2 The State’s third
substitute information in lieu of indict

Tulsa, OK - Jury Hung On First-Degree Murder Charge Against Shannon Kepler and Guilty on Weapons Charge

The State of Oklahoma charged former Tulsa police officer Shannon James Kepler with first-degree murder in violation of 21 O.S. 707.7 and two counts of shooting with intent to kill in violation of 21 O.S. 652 for killing 19-year-old Jeremey Lake and shooting at this daughter, Lisa Keple

Belt's challenges to his convictions based on the sufficiency of the evidence to support them necessitate a thorough review of the grisly evidence in this case. The victim in this case, L.G., was a housekeeper at a Wichita apartment complex. She and her live-in boyfriend, Chris Branch, were acquainted with Belt as former neighbors. On the morning of June 25, 2002, a manager at the complex w

After a lengthy evidentiary hearing, the postconviction court, in a detailed,
239-page order, concluded that the murder conviction and sentence of death should
be vacated and a new trial granted on multiple grounds. A key finding was that the
State not only failed to disclose the full extent of its plea deal with William Hearn,
the State’s only eyewitness to the murder, but al

Raleigh, NC - Jury Awards North Carolina State Employee $7.5 Million on Defamation Claim

Beth Desmond sued Raleigh, North Carolina The News & Observer and Mandy Locke on defamation theories claiming that she was injured and damaged as a direct result of a newspaper article written by Locke and published by The News & Observer in 2010.

The article in question criticized Plaintiff

On Tuesday, March 1, 1988, at about 10:45 p.m., Joseph Wayne Daggett left his
girlfriend Sheridan Porter’s house to go back to his own home on the Slaughter Ranch outside of
Fort Stockton, Texas. He told Porter that he had planned to travel to a Chevrolet dealership in
Odessa the next day to have repairs made to his new truck. At trial, Porter, who divorced
Appellant in 1987,

The petitioner‟s convictions arose from a shooting on January 11, 2005, at the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) facility in Jackson, Tennessee, where the petitioner killed three people: Renee Jordan, his thirty-one-year-old wife who was employed at TDOT; Jerry Hopper, an employee of the Tennessee Division of Forestry who was at the TDOT office; and David Gordon, a motorist the

San Diego, CA - Former NCIS Supervisory Special Agent Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for Taking Bribes from Foreign Defense Contractor in Massive Fraud and Corruption Scandal

Former Naval Criminal Investigative Service supervisory special agent John Beliveau II was sentenced to 12 years in prison for disclosing sensitive law enforcement reports to a foreign defense contractor who was th

On September 2, 2014, a white male entered a local Subway restaurant, entered
and exited the bathroom, approached the sales-counter, drew a handgun, pointed the
weapon at the cashier, and demanded money. The cashier (Williams) opened the
register, turned around, moved-away slightly, and watched the individual via the
reflection off a glass door behind the counter. The individu

TI and Volt executed a contract for Volt to furnish personnel with specific work
qualifications and skills as requested by TI from time-to-time. Udell was hired by Volt and
assigned to work at TI.
Udell worked as a manufacturing specialist in a TI facility that was involved in the
manufacture of semiconductors. Keith Davis, the TI supervisor for Udell, other Volt contractors,

In June 2009, Deist pled no contest to one count of failure to register as a sex offender. Before sentencing, Deist requested that the court reduce his sentence or place him on probation instead of sending him to prison, as would be required under the sentencing guidelines. The district court granted his request and placed Deist on probation for 36 months, but if he failed at probation, his underl

This case arises from the Defendant‟s refusal to return Gervasio Monterosas Sanchez‟s stolen truck to the place from which the Defendant towed it unless the victim paid him a sum of money, as well as from the Defendant‟s having the truck declared abandoned and selling it to another person.
At the trial, Morristown Police Detective Al Herrera testified that in August 2013,