On February 12, 2015, Francis was stopped for speeding by Officers
Joseph Bassett and Josh Owen of the Shreveport Police Department.
Francis’s girlfriend, Euradell Lewis, was a passenger in the car. Officer
Bassett smelled a strong odor of marijuana and removed Francis and Lewis
from the vehicle. One of the officers noticed a bulge in Lewis’s clothing.
She gave the off

Terrence Saunders appeals his conviction and sentence for one count of battery and one count of lewd or lascivious conduct. On appeal, Appellant raises a jury selection issue and challenges two evidentiary rulings below. We affirm the trial court’s rulings on the jury selection issue and on a defense objection to law enforcement officer testimony during cross examination without further comment.

On a freezing night in December 2013, appellant, who was seventeen years old, along
with two other women, attacked the victim in the back bedroom of a trailer in Comal County. The
women had asked the victim to come to the back bedroom and then confronted her with accusations
that she was an “informant,” had recorded drug transactions, “cloned” phones, and had slept with
one of the

On a Saturday evening in August 1986, Porter and his girlfriend, Anita Fries,1
began using drugs at Porter’s home. Porter was a drug dealer for the neighborhood.
He was upset that several people, including the decedent, Gerald Oncale, owed
money to him. When Porter learned that Oncale was nearby, Porter left the house
and met Oncale around the corner. At that meeting, Oncal

¶ 1 We granted certiorari in this case to decide whether the court of appeals correctly determined that the Utah Governmental Immunity Act (GIA) barred Jesus Monarrez‘s claims. Mr. Monarrez, after being injured when forced to stop suddenly near a construction crew on a Utah road, attempted to bring a negligence claim against the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) and several unnamed ―

¶ 1 Brendt Bennett claims that his Fifth Amendment rights were violated when he was required to disclose his entire sexual history, including any uncharged sexual crimes, as part of his sex offender treatment during parole. He refused to make these disclosures and his parole was revoked, requiring him to return to prison to potentially serve the remainder of his indeterminate six year to life sent

After a trial on August 9-11, 2010, the Petitioner was convicted by a Davidson County Criminal Court Jury of first degree felony murder, and he received a life sentence. On direct appeal, this court summarized the proof adduced at trial as follows:
The evidence at trial established that Linburg Thompson (―Victim Thompson‖), a fifty-three-year-old father of four, was killed on th

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

Due to the procedural posture, all facts and inferences that may be reasonably drawn from the evidence are resolved in Lumry's favor because the district court decided this case against him on summary judgment. Thoroughbred Assocs. v. Kansas City Royalty Co., 297 Kan. 1193, 1204, 308 P.3d 1238 (2013); O'Brien v. Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc., 294 Kan. 318, 330, 277 P.3d 1062 (2012). Our f

Pemberton Township contracted with the Pemberton First Aid
and Rescue Squad (Pemberton Rescue Squad) -- a private, non
profit organization -- to provide back-up emergency medical
services for the municipality. Defendant Brandon Morrison
served as a volunteer EMT on the Pemberton Rescue Squad and as
the Squad’s treasurer. Defendant was charged with official
misconduct

Santa Fe, NM - Jury Convicts Real Estate Developer of Fraud and Embezzlement

The State of New Mexico charged Santa Fe real estate developer with fraud and embezzlement including eight second-degree felonies and one misdemeanor relating to the operation of his luxury home development and construction business Barranca Building and other businesses and development, including Las Campanas.

Maxwell Soeth, a police officer in Fortuna, California,
fatally shot Jacob Newmaker during an attempted arrest. In
this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case alleging excessive force, Officer
Soeth maintained in the district court that he shot Newmaker
after he grabbed Soeth’s police baton. According to Soeth,
Newmaker was standing upright and was swinging the baton
violently toward Sergea

In March 2004, a jury convicted LaPointe of aggravated robbery and aggravated assault based on the robbery of a Payless Shoe store in October 2000. State v. LaPointe (LaPointe I), No. 93,709, 2006 WL 2936496, at *1 (Kan. App. 2006) (unpublished opinion). The facts are well known to the parties and to this court, thus we need not recite them here. See LaPointe I, 2006 WL 2936496; LaPointe v. State

Tulsa, OK - Tulsa County Settles Sexual Harassment Case With Former Sheriff's Department Employee

In June 2014, a 1999 GMC truck was stolen from Robert Manuel’s place of business. The Defendant was originally named as the perpetrator by his then-girlfriend, Sara Navarre. Recanting her initial statement, Sara (now the 2 Defendant’s wife) stated at trial that she was the person who stole the truck and that she initially blamed the Defendant to force him into drug rehab. ERRORS PATENT In accordan

Appellant pled guilty and was placed on five years deferred adjudication on June 27, 2012 1 This case was transferred to this Court from the Second Court of Appeals pursuant to an order issued by the Supreme Court of Texas. See TEX.GOV’T CODE ANN. § 73.001 (West 2013). 2 for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, to-wit: a firearm. Two o

Guardian of her disabled adult son petitions this Court to assume original jurisdiction and issue a writ prohibiting the trial court from exercising jurisdiction over the claims of two discharged domestic workers. Original jurisdiction is assumed. Let the Writ of Prohibition issue, directing Respondent Judge, or any other judge to whom case No. CJ-2014-2718 is assigned, to (1) vacate the Journal

Muskogee, OK - Stilwell Man Pleads Guilty To Drug Conspiracy, Firearm Possession

DUSTY ALLEN DRYWATER, age 33, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Drug Conspiracy, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846, 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A), punishable by not less than 10 years or more than Life imprisonment, up to a $10,000,000.00 fine or both and FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREA

Muskogee, OK - Vian Man Sentenced To 57 Months For Possession Of Stolen Firearms

Chistropher Jordan Lee Foreman, age 22, of Vian, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 57 months of imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for POSSESSION OF STOLEN FIREARMS, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(j) and 2, punishable by not more than 10 years of imprisonment, up to

In Kleypas I, 272 Kan. at 909-14, this court extensively discussed the criminal acts that led to Kleypas' convictions for the capital murder of C.W., the aggravated burglary of her apartment, and the attempt to rape her. Highly summarized, in March 1996, C.W.'s body was discovered in her apartment where she had died after suffering seven stab wounds to her heart, a lacerated liver, a dilated anus,

In 2014, the Federal Government indicted former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell and his wife, Maureen McDonnell, on bribery charges. The charges related to the acceptance by the McDonnells of $175,000 in loans, gifts, and other benefits from Virginia businessman Jonnie Williams, while Governor McDonnell was in office. Williams was the chief executive officer of Star Scientific, a Virginia-bas

It is well established that the state may immunize from prosecution a witness called in its case-in-chief. See generally General Statutes § 54-47a. Theprimaryquestioninthisappealiswhetherthestate, after immunizing such a witness for testimony given during the state’s case-in-chief, may decline to extend that immunity to the same witness in connection with his testimony during the defense case-in-

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,

We begin with the basic facts related by Wiseman and his girlfriend, Alexandra Escarcega; for facts that might be disputed, we will indicate when the information comes from someone else. Around 5 p.m. on December 6, 2014, Wiseman rode with Escarcega to a Dillon's grocery store in Garden City. Wiseman and Escarcega lived in Wichita but had held a birthday party for their daughter at the YMCA in Ga

Columbia, SC - Felon Responsible for Three State Police Chase Sentenced to 71 Months Imprisonment on Firearm Charge

Mark Anthony Stone, age 32, of Rabun, Georgia was sentenced for one count of Felon in Possession of a Firearm, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). United States District Judge Timothy M. Cain of Anderson sentenced Stone to seventy-one months imprisonment, three years of supe