On February 1, 2015, Brandy, her husband, Alex, and their 6-month-old infant visited Widmer's apartment to watch the Super Bowl. During this gathering, Alex received a call and stated that he had to go to work. Widmer agreed to drive Alex and the two men left the apartment.

At trial, the accounts of what happened next varied significantly. According to Widmer's wife, Tiffany, while the ... More...   $0 (04-24-2017 - KS)

On March 11, 2009, Gary Holmes was shot and killed inside
BJ’s, a convenience store near 42d Street and Ames Avenue in
Omaha, Nebraska. The shooter was wearing a black, hooded
sweatshirt and a ski mask. The shooter did not enter BJ’s, but
instead opened the front door to the store and fired 15 shots.
Nine or ten of them hit Holmes, and several hit and severely
injured anoth... More...   $0 (04-24-2017 - NE)

The State presented the following evidence at trial.
Defendant, having spent the day with his daughter, waited for
Janet,1 the child's mother, to return home from work. As the child
and defendant sat in his car, Janet, her infant son, her partner,
and his sister pulled up and parked facing defendant's car, parked
in front of her apartment. The partner approached defenda... More...   $0 (04-24-2017 - NJ)

Seattle, WA - Childcare Worker Sentenced to 6+ Years in Prison for Possession of Images of Child Rape

Long-Time Employee of Child Care Center Working with Infants

A childcare worker was sentenced to 78 months in prison and 15 years of supervised release for possession of child pornography. KYLE J. TATE, 34, of Seattle was arrested in May 2016 and pleaded guilty in November 2016. ... More...   $0 (04-21-2017 - WA)

In these accelerated appeals,2 appellant, T.H.L., challenges the trial court’s orders, entered after a bench trial, awarding the Department of Family and Protective Services (“DFPS”) permanent managing conservatorship of her four minor children, R.C.,3 R.L., C.J., and C.C.J. (collectively, “the children”).4 In her sole issue, T.H.L. contends that the trial court erred in appointing DFPS as the chi... More...   $0 (04-21-2017 - TX)

On February 17, 2015, at about 2:45 a.m., an officer with the Waterloo
Police Department was dispatched to a local gas station after receiving a report
from the gas station clerk of a suspicious occupied vehicle that had been parked
in front of the store at the gas pump for approximately thirty minutes. An officer
arrived at the scene, pulled in directly behind the vehicle, an... More...   $0 (04-21-2017 - IA)

This case presents a novel issue under Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966).

A common factual issue in Miranda cases is whether a suspect is in custody when police interrogation begins. If a suspect is in custody, the police “are required to advise the suspect of his or her Miranda rights” before commencing interrogation. Caldwell v. State, 41 So. 3d 188, 197 (Fla. 2010). It is w... More...   $0 (04-14-2017 - FL)

On the evening of 1 November 2005, Jose Lopez drove Ricardo Sanchez to a car
wash in Sanford, North Carolina where Sanchez planned to complete a drug
transaction with Defendant. When they arrived and parked Lopez’s Ford Explorer,
Lopez remained in the driver’s seat while Sanchez sat in the rear passenger side seat
with the window rolled down.
After Sanchez called Defendan... More...   $0 (04-14-2017 - NC)

Harrisburg, PA - Franklin County Man Pleads Guilty To Production Of Child Pornography Involving An Infant And Toddler

Evan Matthew Lawbaugh, age 33, of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to production of child pornography.

According to United States Attorney Bruce D. Brandler, Lawbaugh admitted that he sexually assaulted ... More...   $0 (04-13-2017 - PA)

In 2013, Scroggs and her husband Matthew Scroggs ("Matthew")2 were living in
Pleasant Hill, Missouri with their three children. During the summer, Matthew's mother,
Melinda Brown ("Brown") was caring for the children at her home a couple hours away
from Pleasant Hill. In early June of 2013, Brown took the three children to visit Pleasant
Hill. Brown noticed that Scroggs appe... More...   $0 (04-05-2017 - MO)

Defendant, whose date of birth is October 29, 1977, had sexual intercourse between the dates of July 1, 2013, and July 5, 2013, with B.H, whose date of birth is January 10, 2002.1 The victim became pregnant and delivered a baby boy on March 20, 2014. At trial, B.H. testified that her uncle, Defendant, had sexual intercourse with her when she was eleven years of age. DNA samples were taken from Def... More...   $0 (04-05-2017 - LA)

The complainant is K.J., a girl who was five months old at the time of her
death. K.J.’s mother, Laquisha Jackson, had begun dating appellant after she
became pregnant with K.J. Before Jackson gave birth to K.J., she and appellant
moved into a two-bedroom apartment with appellant’s father and appellant’s
father’s girlfriend. After K.J.’s birth, Jackson continued to live with ap... More...   $0 (04-04-2017 - TX)

This is an accelerated appeal from a decree terminating parental rights. In her
only viable appellate issue, the mother asserts that the evidence was legally and
factually insufficient to show that termination was in the best interest of her child.
See TEX. FAM. CODE § 161.001(b). We find sufficient evidence to support the trial
court’s decree, and we affirm.


2... More...   $0 (03-29-2017 - TX)

The defendant, Malcolm
Thompson, pled guilty to distribution of heroin and cocaine base,
in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). Although the parties agreed
that Thompson's guidelines sentencing range was thirty to thirtyseven
months, the district court imposed an upwardly variant
sentence of forty-eight months in prison. Thompson now appeals,
arguing that this sentence is b... More...   $0 (03-03-2017 - ME)

Boise, ID - Boise Man Pleads Guilty to Possession of Child Pornography

Ronald Lallatin, 60, of Boise, pleaded guilty in United States District Court to possession of child pornography.

According to the plea agreement, in June of 2016, agents with the Department of Homeland Security served a search warrant on Lallatin’s residence in Boise, Idaho, based upon evidence that a compute... More...   $0 (03-02-2017 - ID)

We first summarize the relevant facts and procedural history.
On August 28, 2012, at approximately 12:45 p.m., defendant crashed
her minivan into a light pole while driving on the Black Horse
Pike in Pleasantville. Defendant's husband, William Nasta, sat
in the front passenger seat, and their two-month-old and five
year-old daughters occupied the rear seat. William died ... More...   $0 (02-24-2017 - NJ)

Quentin Truehill, who was twenty-two years old at the time, was charged
with the kidnapping and murder of Vincent Binder, who was twenty-nine years
old. Truehill’s crime spree began on the evening of March 30, 2010, at the
Avoyelles Parish Sheriff’s Office in Mansura, Louisiana, when Truehill and two
other cellmates, Kentrell F. Johnson1 and Peter Hughes,2 held the holding-cel... More...   $0 (02-24-2017 - FL)

In 2012, Stettler, then eighteen years old, lived in a house in Muncie with his
mother, his fiancée, and their infant son. In prior years, Stettler and his mother
had shared a house with numerous relatives, including S.Y.; S.Y.’s sister, C.Y.;
and their mother.
[5] On the evening of Friday, October 26, 2012, Stettler’s mother invited S.Y., then
twelve years old, and C.Y. ... More...   $0 (02-23-2017 - IN)

Appellants D.A. and M.A. bring this interlocutory appeal challenging the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Appellees Texas Health
2
Presbyterian Hospital of Denton (THP), Marc Wilson, M.D., and Alliance OB/GYN Specialists, PLLC d/b/a OB/GYN Specialists, PLLC. We granted permission to appeal on a single issue—whether civil practice and remedies code section 74.153 applies ... More...   $0 (02-16-2017 - TX)

In April 2014, the Missoula, Montana, home Kaarma and his partner Janelle
Pflager (Pflager) shared with their infant son was burglarized two times. Each time the
burglar entered the garage through the partially open garage door. Concerned about
safety, Kaarma and Pflager installed security cameras in and around their garage,
changed how they parked their cars, started locking... More...   $0 (02-13-2017 - MT)

Plaintiffs-Appellants Mathew Carabajal and his son, V.M.C., through
Mathew and V.M.C.’s mother, Arianna Martinez, appeal from the district court’s
judgment in favor of Defendants-Appellees Officers Joshua Thornton and Michael
Sutton, and Defendant-Appellee City of Cheyenne (“the City”). On appeal,
Plaintiffs challenge the district court’s grant of a motion to dismiss Plaintiffs’More...   $0 (02-10-2017 - WY)