In two issues, appellant complains the trial court erred by refusing to allow him to question Justin Brown, a State’s witness, about the fact that Brown was on deferred adjudication community supervision, referred to as “probation” by appellant, for offenses committed in the same transaction for which appellant was on trial.1 The record reflects that before opening arguments, the State made an ora

APPEAL from the Superior Court of Riverside County. James T. Warren, Judge.
(Retired judge of the Riverside Super. Ct. assigned by the Chief Justice pursuant to art.
VI, § 6 of the Cal. Const.) Affirmed.
Westover Law Group, Andrew L. Westover and Morgan Cahill-Marsland for
Appellant.
Julie M. Clark for Respondent.
In this family law matter between William Binette (husband)

Burton was involved in a long-term relationship with Ashley Lambert. However, the relationship was tumultuous and Burton had moved out of the residence. The parties had a son together and shared custody. On June 1, 2016, following an argument on the phone, Burton arrived at Lambert’s residence and started kicking the storm door. After Lambert opened the inside door, Burton came into the r

At approximately 10 p.m. on October 18, 2016, seventeen-year-old E.S. was
returning home from work on State Road 1 in Dearborn County. Terry was
driving the car directly in front of E.S. As Terry approached Sawdon Ridge
Road (“Sawdon Ridge”), he turned on his right turn signal. Terry applied his
brakes but missed the turn on Sawdon Ridge. As E.S. turned right on Sawdon

A fire set in a home north of Ottumwa resulted in the death of two occupants.
An investigation turned up no solid leads until a decade later. At that time, the
State charged Christopher Yenger with two counts of first-degree murder. A jury
found him guilty as charged. On appeal, Yenger contends (1) the State presented
insufficient evidence to corroborate accomplice testimon

On February 13, 2015, WTVR, LLC (“WTVR”) aired a news story about a county school system hiring a felon in violation of a Virginia state law. The news story implied that the felon lied about a prior criminal conviction on a job application, thereby committing a Class 1 misdemeanor. However, Angela Engle Horne, the unidentified felon in question, had disclosed her prior felony on her job applicatio

Counsel questions whether the district court complied with Rule 11 in accepting
Ramirez’s guilty plea but does not identify any specific error committed during the plea
hearing. Because Ramirez did not move in the district court to withdraw his guilty plea,
we review this issue for plain error. United States v. Sanya, 774 F.3d 812, 815 (4th Cir.
2014). To establish plain err

Boston, MA - In this case, we affirm dismissal
of the added charge in a superseding indictment on Sixth Amendment
speedy trial grounds. On the facts of this case, we hold that the
constitutional speedy trial clock starts to run from the date of
the original indictment, rejecting the government's assertion that
it runs from the date of the charge first brought in the
superse

The Children Services Division of the Montgomery County Department of Job and Family Services placed S.T. and his brother T.W. with Weaver and his wife for foster care on September 24, 2015. 1 Tr. of Proceedings 404:21-406:13. S.T. was approximately two years old at the time, and his brother was approximately three. Id. at 395:21-396:8.

San Diego, CA - Beverly Hills Doctor Sentenced to 10 Years in Custody for Massive Workers’ Comp Scheme

Beverly Hills Radiologist Ronald Grusd and two of his corporations, California Imaging Network Medical Group and Willows Consulting Company, were sentenced in federal court on June 18, 2018 after a jury trial in December resulted in convictions on 39 felony fraud counts.

U.S. Di

In this case, we affirm dismissal
of the added charge in a superseding indictment on Sixth Amendment
speedy trial grounds. On the facts of this case, we hold that the
constitutional speedy trial clock starts to run from the date of
the original indictment, rejecting the government's assertion that
it runs from the date of the charge first brought in the
superseding indictme

Alexandria, VA - Manafort Was Sentenced to 47 Months in Prison


The United States of America charged Paul J. Manafort, Jr. with:

26:7206(1); 18:2 and 3551 et seq. Subscribing to False United States Individual Income Tax Returns
(1-5) Dismissed per the filing of the superseding indictment
26:7206(1) Subscribing to False United States Individual Income Tax Returns

Perry and Tari VanDekieft2 married in September 2009. She called him her
“best friend,” and he considered her the same. In August 2014, the couple moved
into a home in rural Inwood located in the salvage yard where they worked. The
1 The capitalization and spacing of the Defendant–Appellant’s last name is inconsistent throughout the rec

Maranda ODonnell and other plaintiffs (collectively, “ODonnell”)
brought a class action suit against Harris County, Texas, and a number of its
officials—including County Judges,1 Hearing Officers, and the Sheriff
(collectively, the “County”)—under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. ODonnell alleged the
County’s system of setting bail for indigent misdemeanor arrestees violated
Texas statutory a

This appeal arises out of the district court’s order sanctioning three attorneys and their law firms under both its inherent authority and 28 U.S.C. § 1927. Finding no abuse of discretion, we affirm.
I.
The district court based its decision to award sanctions on a comprehensive evaluation of the attorneys’ conduct. That conduct was, in many respects, egregious, and it continued throughout

Claimants appeal an order by the district court that found Claimants’ Answer to the In Rem Forfeiture Complaint insufficient because it objected to providing
testimonial statements as to matters requested therein because claimant argued the
search and seizure were unlawful and such information would be fruit of the
poisonous tree, and simultaneously forfeited the property. (A1144-14

A grand jury originally indicted Salazar on February 23, 2010, and re-indicted
him on July 29, 2010. He was then indicted again on May 5, 2011. Salazar was tried
under the May 5th indictment for one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child,
one count of indecency with a child by sexual contact, and one count of sexual
assault of a child. The May 5th indictment2 alleged, in r

In 1999, Appellant married a woman (Mother) with two young daughters,
H.W. and J.W. (collectively, the girls), and a baby boy, and the couple soon had
a son together. Appellant and Mother divorced several years later. In 2014,
J.W., then almost nineteen years old, reported to the girls’ father (Father) and
stepmother (Stepmother) that Appellant had sexually abused her when sh

In May 2014, Jensen was traveling on I-70 through Geary County, Kansas. His Colorado-licensed truck lacked a front license plate, but it had a back license plate. A Junction City Police Officer pulled Jensen over for this missing license plate, correctly believing that both a front and a back plate were required by Colorado, the vehicle's state of registration. See Colo. Rev. Stat. § 42-3-201(1)(a

On April 29, 2015, Defendant entered guilty pleas to theft of merchandise valued at less than $500, tampering with or fabricating evidence, forgery, perjury on an official document, stalking of a judge, and escape from misdemeanor incarceration. See State v. Pamela Moses, No. W2015-01240-CCA-R3-CD, 2016 WL 4706707, at *2 (Tenn. Crim. App. Sept. 6, 2016), perm. app. denied (Tenn. Jan. 23, 2017).

Oklahoma City, OK - Oklahoma City Man Pleads Guilty to "Lie-And-Try" Firearm Felony

LESEAN D. HARDY, 38, of Oklahoma City, has pleaded guilty to causing a false statement to be made to a licensed firearms dealer, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.

On December 13, 2017, a federal grand jury indicted Hardy and SHENITA RENEE WI

One man’s extradition is another
man’s “kidnapping.” Edward Tobey, the plaintiff here, has
three state-court convictions (one in Illinois and two in Florida)
for possession of child pornography. Tobey also has a penchant
for resisting the conditions of probation placed upon him
2 Nos. 16-3927 & 16-4037
by courts and by his probation officer. In 2013, his tussles with
th

Defendants are foreign nationals under the Hostage Taking Act: Mikhel is Russian, and Kadamovas is Lithuanian. Both lived in Los Angeles, California, during the events underlying this case. Defendants were assisted at various times by coconspirators Petro Krylov, Ainar Altmanis, Aleksejus Markovskis, and Natalya Solovyeva. Altmanis, Markovskis, and Solovyeva all pleaded guilty and
UNITED STA

While Paige Gerber and her cousin Savannah Hardy were drinking beer by the pool at the
apartment complex where Hardy lived, Gerber spoke with Ralph Michael Lopez through an
internet chatroom. A short time later, Lopez brought some methamphetamine to the pool of the
apartment complex. After snorting the methamphetamine and hanging out at the pool for an hour
or two, Lopez drov

In 1998, a Sullivan County Criminal Court jury convicted the petitioner of one count of attempted first degree murder and one count of felony reckless endangerment. This court affirmed the convictions and accompanying 25-year sentence on direct appeal. State v. Andrew Young Johnson, No. E1999-00002-CCA-R3-CD, (Tenn. Crim. App., Knoxville, Apr. 18, 2000). The crimes in this case came on the tail