Milwaukee, WI - The United States of America charged Ayse E. Duncan with unlawful possession of a firearm and drug distribution.

U.S. District Judge JP Stadtmueller found Ayse E. Duncan (age: 32) guilty of Possessing a Firearm as an Unlawful User of Controlled Substances and Transferring a Firearm to an Unlawful User of Controlled Substances, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, ... More...   $0 (01-17-2020 - WI)

Jackson, MS - The United States of America charged Jonathan Beasley with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Jonathan Beasley, 28, of Jackson, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bure... More...   $0 (01-15-2020 - MS)

Dallas, TX - The United States of America charged Dawn Greenwood forcing a 9-year-old girl to perform sex acts on her husband.

A woman who videotaped as she forced a 9-year-old girl to perform sex acts on her husband has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison, the statutory maximum sentence, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.

Dawn Gre... More...   $0 (01-15-2020 - TX)

Does “Dueñas” apply to a mandatory minimum juvenile
restitution fine? (People v. Dueñas (2019) 30 Cal.App.5th 1157
(Dueñas).) No. This celebrated or denigrated case has its
followers and detractors at the Court of Appeal. (See, e.g., People
v. Belloso (2019) 42 Cal.App.5th 647.) Here, Dueñas attempts to
rear its head in juvenile jurisprudence. As we shall explain, even
if t... More...   $0 (01-15-2020 - CA)

Bangor, ME - The United States of America charged Katherine Prosper with social security fraud.

A Clinton woman pleaded guilty on Friday in federal court in Bangor to Social Security fraud and making false statements, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.

According to court records, from about August 2006 through March 2019, Katherine Prosper, 61, a recipient of Supplemental S... More...   $0 (01-13-2020 - ME)

Petitioners Kevin Bom, Stefanie Rodriguez, Gregory
Merritt, and Patricia Clement were social workers with the
Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services
(DCFS). In 2012 and 2013, petitioners provided emergency
and family maintenance services to seven-year-old Gabriel F.
(Gabriel), and members of his family. Approximately six weeks
after DCFS closed its ca... More...   $0 (01-11-2020 - CA)

Defendants and appellants Sony Music Entertainment
(Sony), John Branca, as co-executor of the estate of Michael J.
Jackson (the Estate), and MJJ Productions, Inc. (collectively
Appellants) appealed from an order of the superior court partially
denying their motion to strike under the anti-SLAPP statute.
(Code Civ. Proc., § 425.16.)
1 We previously issued an opinion in
t... More...   $0 (01-09-2020 - CA)

Covington, KY - The United States of America charged Charles Wesley Bruener, III with carjacking and threatening two individuals with a firearm in the course of the commission of a crime.

A Maysville, Kentucky, man, Charles Wesley Bruener III, 33, who previously admitted to carjacking and threatening two individuals with a firearm in the course of the offense was sentenced Friday to 199 m... More...   $0 (01-07-2020 - KY)

Nashville, TX - Franklin Rodney, St., As Administrator of the Estate of Franklin Rodney, Jr. deceased, and L'Oreall Julian, Legal guardian and next friend of Arien Wynter, sole surviving Minor Child and next of kin of Nicholas Wynter, deceased, sued Stanislaw A. Turczyn, Bartosz Biernat, Rush, Inc. and Gdansk Transport, Inc. on personal injury, wrongful death, auto negligence and respondeat superi... More...   $1 (01-06-2020 - TN)

This is another in a series of cases in which former
managers of Safeway supermarket stores sought unpaid
overtime wages, claiming they had been misclassified as
exempt executives under regulations applicable to the
mercantile industry. Following trial, a jury found
respondent Safeway, Inc. had proven that appellant William
Cunningham had been an exempt employee (and thus w... More...   $0 (01-05-2020 - CA)

Chicago, IL - The United States of America charged Efren Gutierrez with felony firearms and narcotics crimes.

Efren Gutierrez, 44, illegally possessed the firearm and narcotics on Dec. 6, 2017. Law enforcement executed a court-authorized search of Gutierrez’s home in Burbank and discovered the gun hidden in a diaper bag in his bedroom. The gun was loaded and had a .45-caliber magazine a... More...   $0 (01-03-2020 - IL)

Chicago, IL - The United States of America charged Efren Gutierrez with illegally possessing narcotics and a loaded semiautomatic handgun.

EFREN GUTIERREZ, 44, illegally possessed the firearm and narcotics on Dec. 6, 2017. Law enforcement executed a court-authorized search of Gutierrez’s home in Burbank and discovered the gun hidden in a diaper bag in his bedroom. The gun was loaded an... More...   $0 (01-01-2020 - IL)

Muskogee, OK - The United States of America charged Winford Lamont Henley with possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.

Winford Lamont Henley, age 45, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment and 4 years of supervised release for Possession Of Firearm In Furtherance Of Drug Trafficking Crime, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sect... More...   $0 (12-30-2019 - OK)

This case concerns a Mississippi law that prohibits abortions, with limited exceptions, after 15 weeks’ gestational age. The central question before us is whether this law is an unconstitutional ban on pre-viability abortions. In an unbroken line dating to Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court’s abortion cases have established (and affirmed, and re-affirmed) a woman’s right to choose an abortion before v... More...   $0 (12-16-2019 - MS)

Minneapolis, MN - The United States of America charged Demetric Devon Miller with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

According to the indictment, on November 23, 2019, MILLER was found to be in possession of two firearms, namely, a Hi-Point, model JHP, .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol, and a Taurus, model G2C, 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistol. Because MILLER has prior felony convi... More...   $0 (12-16-2019 - MN)

Ceder Rapids, IA - The United States of America charged Rossi Lorathio Adams, II with conspiracy to interfere with commerce by force, threats, and violence.

A man who enlisted his cousin to break into a Cedar Rapids man’s home and order him at gunpoint to transfer an Internet domain was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison.

Rossi Lorathio Adams II, age 27, from Cedar Rap... More...   $0 (12-10-2019 - IA)

Grand Rapids, MI - The United States of America charged Joseph James Shingola II, age 50, of Comstock Park yesterday to being a prohibited person in possession of firearms.

Shingola was involuntarily committed to a mental institution in 1988, which made him ineligible to possess firearms under federal law. He did not disclose the commitment in subsequent applications to purchase guns an... More...   $0 (12-06-2019 - MI)

In this interlocutory appeal, defendant Wilco Life Insurance Company (“Wilco”) appeals from the district court’s order granting plaintiff Vanessa Anderson’s motion to remand this putative class action back to a Georgia state court. In this case, Anderson, on behalf of herself and all those similarly situated, sued her former insurer, Wilco. Anderson alleges that Wilco improperly raised the cost of... More...   $0 (12-02-2019 - GA)

Rutland, VT - Heidi Ives, individually and as parent and guardian of J.I., an infant
as Guardian for J.I., and Rebecca Helm, individually and as parent and guardian of J.I., an infant
as Guardian for J.I. sued Gary R. Gaines on personal injury auto negligence theories.... More...   $1 (12-01-2019 - VT)