Victor Anthony Cruz, appellant, appeals the trial court’s judgment by which he was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon and sentenced to twenty-five years’ imprisonment. On appeal, he contends that he was entitled to a jury instruction on the use of deadly force in defense of self. He maintains the trial court erred by refusing to include such an instruction in its charge to the jury. We affi

When she checked on her two young children, two-year-old David and one-year-old Mary,1 several hours after returning home from work, Frances Lucas found David cold and not breathing. Lucas and her boyfriend, Clifford James Gayton, Jr., made several attempts to revive David and finally called 9-1-1. Both police and emergency personnel responding to the emergency dispatch also attempted to revive Da

When police and emergency personnel responded to a 9-1-1 call seeking assistance at the apartment of Frances Lucas, they found her two-year-old son, David,1 cold and not breathing. While emergency personnel were unsuccessfully attempting to revive David, two of the police officers learned from Lucas’ boyfriend, Clifford James Gayton, Jr., that Lucas’ one-year-old daughter, Mary, was in a bedroom.

High Mountain Ranch Group, LLP (High Mountain), filed a petition for declaratory judgment against Elbert L. Niece, GT Land LP (GT Land), Mary Hernandez,1 and the Estate of Manuel Saucedo, Sr. (Saucedo), among others,2 seeking a judgment determining that the Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions (DCRs) on Lot 34 in Austin’s Glenbrook Addition3 is illegal, void, and/or unenforceable, and alterna

N.F. appeals from a final judgment rendered after a jury trial on A.S.’s personal injury lawsuit against him. In two issues, N.F. challenges the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence supporting causation and future medical expenses. In a third issue, N.F. contends the trial court erred in refusing to strike a portion of A.S.’s expert’s causation testimony. For the reasons that follow, we a

Jessie Oneal Dawkins appeals his assault, family violence conviction. A jury convicted
appellant, and the trial court sentenced him to twenty-five years’ confinement. In three issues,
appellant argues the State abandoned the allegations in a special notice of intent to enhance
punishment, the sentence is illegal because it is outside the punishment range, and the judgment
should be

This is an interlocutory appeal of the trial court’s denial of appellants Apple Tree Café Touring, Inc. and Erica Wright’s motion to dismiss appellee Paul Levatino’s defamation claim under the Texas Citizens Participation Act (TCPA), an Anti-SLAPP statute. See TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. §§ 27.001–27.011 (West 2015). We reverse, in part, that portion of the trial court’s order awarding Levati

Claudia Arroyo pleaded guilty to three possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance offenses. The trial court deferred an adjudication of guilt and placed her on community supervision for a period of ten years. In a single issue, appellant contends the trial court erred in denying her pretrial motion to suppress evidence. For the following reasons, we affirm.
Juan Rojas, a deportat

Bret Cali appeals a final judgment in which the trial court denied his claim to recover on a
$1,000 bond, which Sisterdale General Holdings, LLC filed after it obtained a temporary
restraining order against him. Because Cali failed to prove the issuance of the temporary
restraining order caused him damages, we affirm the trial court’s judgment.

This appeal is brought under section 51.014(a)(12) of the Texas Civil Practice and
Remedies Code, which allows an appeal from an interlocutory order denying a motion to dismiss
under the Texas Citizens Participation Act (TCPA). See TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN.
§ 51.014(a)(12) (West Supp. 2016). The appellant, Tom Retzlaff, argues the trial court erred in
denying his mo

This is an appeal from the trial court’s dismissal of appellant’s suit for want of prosecution.
In three issues on appeal, appellant asserts the trial court erred in dismissing her suit because she
did not receive adequate notice, the trial court erred by not reinstating her case, and the trial court
intentionally dismissed her case without notice because the trial judge was b

A jury found appellant Duone Titus-Ray Hairston guilty of theft of property valued
at less than $2,500 with two prior theft convictions. See Tex. Penal Code § 31.03 (a), (e)(4)(D).
Appellant submitted the issue of punishment to the trial court, and the court assessed appellant’s
punishment at confinement for 450 days in a state jail facility and assessed a $1,000 fine. See id.
§ 12

A jury convicted appellant Justin Riordan of the offense of aggravated sexual assault
of a child and assessed his punishment at confinement for ten years in the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice. See Tex. Penal Code §§ 22.021(a)(1)(B)(i), (2)(B), 12.32. On appeal, appellant
challenges the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his conviction and complains about improper
jury arg

We are asked to decide, under section 101.101(c) of the civil practice and
remedies code, whether certain entries in medical records equate to actual notice
to Appellant University of North Texas Health Science Center, a governmental
unit, of an injury to its patient Pamela Knight—an injury that is alleged to have
triggered a cascade of problems leading to her death. If the

A jury found that Appellant Musa N. Musallam breached a contract he had
with Appellee Amar B. Ali for the sale of a wholesale distribution company and
awarded Ali $904,924 in damages for past and future lost profits. Musallam
appeals, arguing that the contract is unenforceable as a matter of law and that
1
See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.
the jury’s lost-pro

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order certifying a class action.1
Appellants Lon Smith & Associates, Inc. and A-1 Systems, Inc., d/b/a Lon Smith
1
See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 51.014(a)(3) (West Supp. 2016).
Roofing and Construction2 raise five issues claiming that the trial court erred by
certifying a class because various class-certificati

A jury convicted appellant, Sammie Caston, of the first-degree felony offense
of continuous sexual abuse of a child and assessed his punishment at confinement
for life.1 In two issues, appellant contends that (1) Code of Criminal Procedure
article 38.37, section 2(b), which permits the introduction of evidence of a
defendant’s extraneous bad acts involving children other than the c

Kansas City, MO - KC Woman Pleads Guilty to Obstruction of Justice After Forging Court Order for Release

A Kansas City, Mo., woman who forged a court order to get another inmate released from prison, pleaded guilty in federal court on August 2, 2017 to obstruction of justice.

Margie P. Shephard, 51, of Kansas City, Mo., pleaded guilty before U.S District Judge Roseann Ketchmark t

The Orange County Water District (District) was created by the California
Legislature to protect and manage groundwater supplies within its territory, which covers
most of Orange County, California. The District and other regulatory agencies have long
been aware of localized groundwater contamination caused by hazardous substance
releases at various sites in the so-called "South Ba

In this complex real estate purchase transaction, the seller brought a breach
of contract action against the buyers for failing to purchase the subject property.
The defendant buyers asserted an affirmative defense of novation, arguing that
they were not liable under the purchase agreement because it had been superseded
by the parties‟ option agreement; that option agreement

Since 1975, the United States Forest Service has protected and managed wild horses in the Devil’s Garden section of the Modoc National Forest in Northern California. That wild horse territory originally consisted of two separate tracts of land of roughly 236,000 acres. But at some point in the 1980s, a Forest Service map added in an approximately 23,000 acre tract of land known as the Middle Secti

Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty
and Dustin Heard (“defendants”) were contractors with
Blackwater Worldwide Security (ABlackwater@), which in 2007
was providing security services to the United States State
Department in Iraq. As a result of Baghdad shootings that
injured or killed at least 31 Iraqi civilians, Slough, Liberty and
Heard were convicted by a jury of

After living for more than a dozen years in a residential unit he claimed he owned,
Alfonso Ayala was evicted by the property owner, Randy Dawson, in an unlawful
detainer action. Ayala defended by attempting to quash service of summons on the
ground he was not a tenant, but instead held equitable title under an oral installment sale
contract for the purchase of property. Dawson cou

Sapulpa, OK STATE OF OKLAHOMA V. CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW POLHAMUS


1. DISTRIBUTION OF CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE

2. UNLAWFUL USE OF COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY

3. UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA

4. OBTAINING PROPERTY UNDER FALSE PRETENSES

Docket
Date Code Description Count Party Amount
12-29-2016

COMPLAINT

Sapulpa, OK - STATE OF OKLAHOMA V. STEVEN RAY MILLER

1. DOMESTIC ASSAULT & BATTERY BY STRANGULATION

Docket
Date Code Description Count Party Amount
12-08-2016

COMPLAINT AND INFORMATION

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COUNT 1: DOMESTIC ASSAULT AND BATTERY BY STRANGULATION