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

At the trial, Wanda Brown testified that she and Bobbie Hill, who was the victim and the Defendant‘s mother, had been friends since the 1960s. Ms. Brown and the victim went to a fair on Friday, September 12, 1986, around 6:00 p.m. and returned to Ms. Brown‘s home around 10:30 p.m. The victim lived about six miles from Ms. Brown‘s home, and Ms. Brown assumed the victim drove home when she l

On January 22, 2015, Fannie Mast (“Mast”), who lived across the street from
the building that Bryant used for her antiques business and in which Bryant
lived, was working outside her house in Waterloo, DeKalb County, Indiana,
when she saw smoke coming out of the roof area of the building belonging to
Bryant. As the smoke was coming out of the building, Mast observed Bryant

Taylor Clark was known to sell marijuana occasionally. On the night of July 11,
2009, Taylor went to the home of his dealer’s girlfriend, Karen Hickinbottom, to return the
dealer’s cell phone. While Taylor was there, a man showed up and asked to talk to Taylor.
Taylor went outside with him. When Taylor came back inside, he said the man had wanted
to buy drugs. The man came

Keith Robert Johnson (“Petitioner”), seeks second tier certiorari review of an
opinion from the appellate division of the circuit court, in which the circuit court affirmed a
judgment and sentence for indirect criminal contempt. The appellate division of the circuit
court did not have jurisdiction to hear the appeal and should have transferred the appeal
to this court. Th

We have briefly summarized the facts from the joint trial of the DefendantAppellant, Dekarlos Johnson, and his co-defendant, Bryant Gooseberry, because they are relevant to the issues on appeal.

Trial. Hue Xa testified that on January 21, 2013, he made arrangements to buy an iPhone from a seller who had posted an advertisement on Craigslist. That day, Xa called and emailed the sell

The defendant, William Edic, appeals his conviction, following a jury trial in Superior Court (McNamara, J.), on one count of second degree murder and one count of falsifying physical evidence. See RSA 630:1-b, I(b) (2016); RSA 641:6, I (2016). On appeal, the defendant challenges various evidentiary rulings made at trial. We affirm.

The record supports the following facts. The char

Shemika Smith is the mother of four children, including K.J., who was born on
December 28, 2000, and M.K., who was born on October 5, 2005. Shemika
married Smith on June 18, 2011. From 2011 to 2015, Shemika and her
children lived with Smith. During this time, Shemika worked long hours,
including some twelve- or thirteen-hour days and weekends, as a training


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Defendant purchased a $300,000 life insurance policy and
$200,000 accidental death benefit insuring Scharf's life on May
23, 1991. He was the primary beneficiary; the parties' son,
Jonathan, ten years old at the time of the murder, was the
contingent beneficiary. Scharf's therapist, Patricia Teague, who
had been treating Scharf for depression since July 1990, testified <

Riverside, CA - ‘Wife’ of Man Facing Charges of Conspiring with Shooter in San Bernardino Attack Pleads Guilty to Entering into Sham Marriage

Mariyah Chernykh pleaded guilty to federal immigration fraud charges and admitted entering into a sham marriage with Enrique Marquez Jr., who is facing charges of conspiring with the male shooter in the December 2, 2015 attack in San Bernardino.

King was sentenced to death for the 2008 murder of Denise Amber Lee.
King v. State, 89 So. 3d 209, 212 (Fla. 2012). This Court detailed the facts of the
murder and subsequent trial in King’s initial appeal:
[O]n January 17, 2008, at approximately 3:30 p.m., Nathan Lee returned to his home on Latour Avenue in North Port, Florida, to find his wife, Denise Amber Lee, missing. The

On January 21, 1997, eighteen-year-old Anthony Strachan was at home in
his family’s apartment on 580 Northwest 64th Street in Miami, cutting a friend’s
hair. Strachan went into the kitchen and, through the kitchen window, saw one of
his neighbors, “Shorty,” standing outside on 64th Street with two unknown men.
One man, who wore a skull cap and a heavy brown coat that

The facts that lead to the charges for which Olson was convicted are not
at issue before the court. Olson was initially charged in two different trial
informations. One charged him with burglary in the third degree, as an habitual
offender, and possession of burglary tools. The other trial information charged
him with an attempt to commit murder and burglary in the first deg

At the time of her disappearance on April 16, 2013, the victim, Heather Palumbo
Jones, and the defendant had been married for over eight years and had two children. They had been separated since January 1, 2013, and had ongoing disputes as to custody of their children. Germantown police officers contacted the defendant shortly after the victim failed to show up at her employment at Frayser Ac

On August 20, 2013, at about 2:10 a.m., while "sitting
stationary" at the Greenfield Town Hall in Sauk County,
Wisconsin, Deputy Brian Slough ("Deputy Schlough") of the Sauk 2 All subsequent references to the Wisconsin Statutes are to the 2011-12 version unless otherwise indicated.
County sheriff's department allegedly observed a veh

Riverside, CA - Syed Raheel Farook Pleads Guilty in Immigration Fraud Case

Syed Raheel Farook, the brother of deceased San Bernardino attacker Syed Rizwan Farook, pleaded guilty in an immigration fraud case stemming from the investigation of the December 2, 2015 attack in San Bernardino in which 14 people died and 22 were wounded.

Syed Raheel Farook, 31, of Corona, Ca

On November 15, 2012, an indictment issued in Cause Number 10,930 alleging
Appellant had engaged in the continuous sexual abuse of M.A.,5 a child younger than
seventeen years of age.6 That same day, a second indictment issued in Cause Number
10,931 alleging Appellant had committed ten separate acts of indecency with a child.
The ten-count indictment alleged Appellant intentio

In his first issue, Senn argues that the evidence is insufficient to trigger the
statutory enhancement under section 22.011(f). Specifically, Senn argues that
there is no evidence that he was engaged in a bigamous relationship with
Brenda.
A. Standard of Review
In our due-process review of the sufficiency of the evidence, we view all of
the evidence in the light mo

Appellant was indicted for continuous sexual abuse of his biological daughter, B.R.
According to B.R., appellant began sexually abusing her when she was twelve years old. The
abuse progressed to the point that he forced B.R. to have sex with him multiple times a week.
B.R. did not tell her mother about the abuse because she was afraid of appellant.
When B.R. began to exhib

Appellant was indicted for continuous sexual abuse of his biological daughter, B.R.
According to B.R., appellant began sexually abusing her when she was twelve years old. The
abuse progressed to the point that he forced B.R. to have sex with him multiple times a week.
B.R. did not tell her mother about the abuse because she was afraid of appellant.
When B.R. began to exhib

The defendant, J.M.F., appeals from the judgment of conviction of attempt to commit murder in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-49 (a) (2) and 53a-54a (a), assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes § 53a-59 (a) (1), and risk of injury to a child in violation of General Statutes § 53-21 (a) (1). On appeal, the defendant raises the following seven claims:(1)thetrialcourtabu

Ellis does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to support his convictions.
Viewed in the light most favorable to the convictions,1 the evidence at trial established the
following:
M.H. ("Mother") had two daughters, V.W. (born in 2003) and M.W. (born in 2005).
Mother met Ellis shortly after M.W. was born. Mother and Ellis married in 2008. While
married, Ellis

The incidents in this case took place on October 6, 2013, between Martinez and his common-law wife, M.H.C., after M.H.C. had obtained a temporary PFA order against Martinez.

On September 20, 2013, M.H.C. obtained the temporary PFA order against Martinez. The order prohibited all contact between the two and gave M.H.C. exclusive possession of their residence and business. The order grant

TULSA, OK - THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA charged JAY PAUL EDWARD BAKER III, A/K/A EDWARD with:

Count # 1.
Count as Filed: ABDGR, ASSAULT WITH A DANGEROUS WEAPON, in violation of 21 O.S. 645, which provides:

Every person who, with intent to do bodily harm and without justifiable or excusable cause, commits any assault, battery, or assault and battery upon the person of another with a

Tulsa, OK - The State of Oklahoma charged Eddie Lee Sappington Allen with:

Count # 1.
Count as Filed: ABDOM, DOMESTIC ASSAULT & BATTERY BY STRANGULATION, in violation of 21 O.S. 644 J
Date of Offense: 05/24/2014

Party Name

Disposition Information

ALLEN, EDDIE LEE SAPPINGTON
Disposed: DISMISSED, 07/22/2014. Dismissed- Prosecution Witness Failed to App