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,

Appellant was charged by indictment with, among other things, sexual assault of a child, sexual assault of a disabled individual, and prohibited sexual conduct. Appellant pleaded “not guilty” to each charge. A jury found Appellant “guilty” as charged, and the matter proceeded to a trial on punishment. Ultimately, the jury assessed Appellant’s punishment at imprisonment for fifteen years for sex

During a break in their on-again-off-again relationship, defendant Dunn and Tracy Shaw, who had obtained a protection order against Dunn, encountered one another at a bank in Parsons. Shaw visited the bank daily as part of her job as a courier. According to bank employees, Dunn had been wandering around outside the bank before Shaw's arrival, and he eventually entered the bank, inquired about open

In this certified appeal,1 we must decide whether the Appellate Court properly affirmed the judgment of the trial court terminating the parental rights of the respondent father, Olusegun O., as to his minor son, Oreoluwa O.2 See In re Oreoluwa O., 157 Conn. App. 490, 116 A.3d 400 (2015). On appeal, the respondent asserts, inter alia, that the Appellate Court improperlyaffirmedthejudgmentofthetria

Ronnie Knighton appeals his judgment and sentence for one count of lewd or lascivious battery. Knighton argues that the trial court reversibly erred by: (1) refusing his request for a jury instruction on the permissive lesser-included offense of unnatural and lascivious act; and (2) including his prior juvenile adjudications on the sentencing scoresheet. We agree with Knighton that the trial cou

In the summer of 2002, Nicholson met Eber while attending a real estate
conference in Florida. Eber lived in Rochester, Indiana, and at that time
Nicholson was living in West Virginia.3 A couple of months prior to their
meeting, Eber had inherited a parcel of real estate in Indiana and another in
Mississippi; each included a residence on the real property. She also inherite

In 2006, Robinson was 20 years old and represented himself to be an up and coming music and events promotor in the Wichita area. He and C.B., the murder victim, had an ongoing sexual relationship. C.B.'s body was found in a shallow grave in rural Butler County. C.B. had been strangled; she was in the very late stages of a pregnancy. The State prosecuted Robinson on the theory he had recruited Ever

Appellant, DB, is the father of CRA, who was born in 2008. EA is CRA’s mother. In January of2010, the district court in Sweetwater County issued a judgment and order establishing CRA’s paternity and placing CRA in the primary physical custody of EA. EA and CRA lived in Sweetwater County and DB lived in Laramie County.
[¶5] On Sunday, May 18, 2014, Rock Springs police arrested and incarcera

Ivey was in a long-term sexual relationship with his half-sister, Novina
Peel.' They lived together in Hardin County, Kentucky, from 1994 to 2007. Peel
had a daughter, Karen, 2 from a previous relationship.
1 They shared the same father, Alfred Ivey, Sr.
2 We refer to the daughter with a pseudonym to protect her identity.
In 2003, when Karen was thirteen years old, she

On April 8, 2014, Chad Mooney was charged with operating a vehicle with an
alcohol concentration equivalent (“ACE”) of 0.08 to 0.15 grams, operating a
vehicle while intoxicated, and improper headlights. The Bureau of Motor
Vehicles (“BMV”) suspended Mooney’s driving privileges for a chemical test
failure the same day.1 On June 12, 2014, Mooney executed a pretrial diversion

On May 14, 2012, Erpelding filed a complaint with the district court to establish paternity, custody, visitation, and child support of his 4-year-old daughter, Grace Erpelding, who was born out of wedlock. In July 2012, the court entered a temporary parenting plan granting primary physical and legal custody of Grace to her mother, Diane Southall. On August 20, the court ordered Erpelding to pay te

¶1 The dispositive issue presented on certiorari is whether the trial court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's action for damages and equitable relief against the defendants, who allegedly made false representations that plaintiff was the father of defendant Judy A. Miller's child and who revealed to the child, almost fifteen years later, that plaintiff was not the child's father. We answer in th

Sonny Boy Oats, Jr., appeals an order of the circuit court that denied his motion filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.203,1 in which he claimed that he is intellectually disabled2 and thus cannot be sentenced to death. In light of developments in the law since Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014), and
because the circuit court erred in its legal analysis regarding the o

¶1 The dispositive issues tendered in these appeals are (1) whether the trial judge abused her discretion in ordering the Patel I judgment vacated, and (2) whether the litigation-related misconduct alleged here may be redressed through a civil action in tort. We answer the first question in the affirmative and the second in the negative.

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THE ANATOMY OF LITIGATION

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The plaintiff, who is diabetic, alleges that Pretrial Services placed the SCRAM too tightly around his ankle. He states that he immediately communicated to the officers that he was diabetic. He told them that the SCRAM was too tight, but the officers ignored his complaint. This discomfort was exacerbated several days later when the plaintiff went on a hike. The next day, he contacted Pretrial

The Child was born on September 16, 2009. On January 9, 2012, the State filed a petition in juvenile court on behalf of the Child‟s mother (Mother) to establish Father‟s paternity and to set child support. Father testified in the case now before us that he was present in juvenile court each time he was summoned, and that he was willing to work with the court to set child support, but

Following the birth of A.A. on April 26, 2013, Matthew and Caitlin signed a VAP pursuant to section 6(a) of the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984 (Parentage Act) (750 ILCS 45/6(a) (West 2012)). Caitlin, A.A.’s mother, had been married to Jakob S., who signed a denial of paternity as to A.A. ¶ 4 On June 10, 2013, the State filed a petition for adjudication of wardship in juvenile court following an

Oklahoma City, OK - Jennifer Robinson, as executor of the Estate of the Deceased Sgt. Carlo Monyell Robinson sued
Sgt. Alysia McGay claiming:

I Plaintiff Sgt. Carlo Montell Robinson (“Robinson”) was the son of Jennifer Robinson and passed away on January 17, 2009, as the result of combat injuries he sustained while serving in the U.S. Army while deployedin Afghanistan. See EXHIBIT “A

On August 9, 2013, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services filed its “Original Petition For Protection of a Child, For Conservatorship, and For Termination in Suit Affecting the Parent-Child Relationship and Order Setting Hearing” in which it sought to terminate the parent-child relationship between appellant M.M. and her two children, A.D. and I.W.1 The Department further requested

Son was born on January 6, 2009, and Mother (who has never been married to
Father) named him “Kaio Henrique Stockmann Kreyhsig.” Father does not dispute
paternity, but the parties do dispute the extent to which Mother has included Father in Son’s
upbringing. Mother alleges that Father “took no part” in Son’s life for a year after he was
born. Father claims that Mother did not t

A criminal defendant “shall enjoy the right . . . to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.” U. S. Const., Amdt. 6. We have held that this right requires effective counsel in both state and federal prosecutions, even if the defendant is unable to afford counsel. Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U. S. 335, 344 (1963). Counsel is unconstitutionally ineffective if his performance is both deficie

After many years of abusing controlled substances, Becky and Bill lost their parental rights to their young children, D.G., K.G., and H.M.G.,1 as the outcome of a jury trial in Gregg County. On appeal, Becky and Bill argue (A) that the evidence is legally and factually insufficient to support the finding that termination was in the best interests of the children, (B) that it was error to deny a mi

This Court summarized the facts supporting the Petitioner‟s convictions in his first appeal as follows:
On February 4th and 5th, 2004, the [Petitioner] committed a series of acts against his wife, C.F.M., FN1 who was the primary victim of the crime, and his nine-year-old stepdaughter, B.R.S., which led to the various convictions. The events began at the family home in Davidson County,

Respondent was hired by the maternal grandparents of a young child who were concerned about the child’s welfare. At the time, the child was living with the grandparents in White County, the putative father’s paternity had not yet been established, and the child’s mother allegedly was an unemployed drug addict who was unable to properly care for the child but nevertheless was threatening to remove

In February of 2013, the parties had a sexual encounter in Portland, Oregon. Mother was attending college there, and Father was visiting from Washington, where he also attended college. Mother became pregnant as a result of the encounter. Thereafter, the parties attempted unsuccessfully to develop a romantic relationship while both were still living in the Pacific Northwest. However, that eff