This case concerns multiple challenges under the National Environmental Policy Act to Maryland’s proposed “Purple Line” light rail project. Two orders of the district court are principally at issue. In the first order, the district court directed the Federal Transit Administration (“FTA”) to prepare a supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (“SEIS”) to analyze the effects of Metrorail’s rec... More...   $0 (12-20-2017 - DC)

Defendant-Appellant James Michael Wells (“Wells”) appeals from his jury trial convictions for two counts of First Degree Murder, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1111(a), (b); two counts of Murder of a Federal Employee, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1114, 1111; and two counts of Use of a Firearm in Relation to a Crime of Violence Resulting in Death, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924 (c), (j). Wells was se... More...   $0 (12-20-2017 - AK)

One evening, Jones and another man robbed a fast food restaurant. Jones
brandished a gun, which he pointed in the face of one of the restaurant’s two
employees, the then-sixteen-year-old complainant, pseudonymously referred to as
James Martin. While Jones and his accomplice were looking for money, Martin
and the other employee escaped and called the police, and Jones was quickl... More...   $0 (12-16-2017 - TX)

Charles D. Satchell appeals his convictions and sentences after a jury found him guilty of one count of criminal sodomy, one count of rape, two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, and five counts of aggravated criminal sodomy. Satchell contends that the district court erroneously admitted evidence of his prior sexual misconduct and that it erred in denying his motion to suppress ... More...   $0 (12-15-2017 - KS)

On November 10, 2015, the Jefferson Parish District Attorney filed a bill of
information charging defendant, Akando Ducksworth, with one count of attempted
second degree murder of Joshua Hardin, in violation of La. R.S. 14:27 and 14:30.1.
Defendant pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on December 11, 2015.
The matter proceeded to trial before a twelve-person jury on August 30... More...   $0 (12-14-2017 - LA)

Tulsa, OK - Woman Sentenced To Life In Prison For Abusing Her Daughter

The State of Oklahoma charged Christina Calhoun, age 27, with child neglect in violation of 21 O.S. 843.5 (C) for failing to property care of her daughter. The child has cerebral palsy and weighed less than 20 pounds at age 5.

Title 21 O.S. Section 843.5 (C) provides:

C. Any parent or other person wh... More...   $0 (12-12-2017 - OK)

Miguel Angel Gonzalez was convicted by a jury of aggravated criminal sodomy of a child under 14 years of age, an off-grid felony. The crime involved him molesting the daughter of his girlfriend.

Under Jessica's Law, Gonzalez faced a presumptive sentence of life imprisonment with no possibility of parole for 25 years. See K.S.A. 2016 Supp. 21-5504(b); K.S.A. 2016 Supp. 21-6627. Gonzal... More...   $0 (12-08-2017 - KS)

On March 4, 2008, Petitioner raped his adopted daughter, a six year-old child. State v. Joshua Matthew Cline, No. M2013-01846-CCA-R3-CD, 2014 WL 1281526, at *1 (Tenn. Crim. App. Mar. 31, 2014), perm app. denied(Tenn. Aug. 27, 2014). The rape was recorded on video, and Petitioner was convicted in federal court of production of
child pornography and sentenced to twenty-seven years and three m... More...   $0 (12-04-2017 - TN)

Appellant was employed as a study hall aide, tutor, and athletic coach at
Chardon High School. Appellant, who was 26 years old at the time, began a sexual
relationship with a 15 year old female student between December 2015 and April 2016.
Appellant exchanged love notes, cell phone communications, and pictures.
{¶3} On May 24, 2016, the Geauga County Grand Jury indicted app... More...   $0 (12-04-2017 - OH)

Miller’s eight-year-old granddaughter, N.S., made an outcry to her school counselor that
Miller had sexually abused her. N.S. provided more details of two assaults in a subsequent
forensic interview at the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center. N.S., who was ten years old at the
time of trial, testified about two incidents during which Miller sexually abused her. Miller also
tes... More...   $0 (11-26-2017 - TX)

Jesus Manuel Ronquillo retained private defense counsel to defend him against
charges that Ronquillo had sexually assaulted his son. Ronquillo remained in custody
throughout the proceedings. On August 16, 2010, the court set trial for Tuesday,
January 11, 2011. On Friday, January 7, 2011, defense counsel filed a motion to
withdraw, and the court held a hearing on the motion.... More...   $0 (11-24-2017 - )

Rebeca D. Balderas-Ramirez appeals a final summary judgment that she take nothing
on claims she had asserted against Anthony Carl Felder following an automobile collision. The
pivotal issues on appeal concern whether Balderas-Ramirez presented any competent evidence of
property damages—including several years’ worth of claimed loss-of-use damages—and whether
any such damages exceed... More...   $0 (11-23-2017 - TX)

On March 31, 2014,at around 11:45 p.m.,Debbie Wiherski called 911 to report her
72-year-old husband, Jerome Wiherski (Wiherski), had been attacked at their home.
Lincoln County Sheriff’s officers responded to the residence and observed Wiherski had
suffered substantial injuries, including a swollen eye, broken nose, head injuries, and a
swollenright abdomen. Wiherski told offi... More...   $0 (11-22-2017 - MT)

The evidence at trial tended to show the following:
Defendant and Amber Gottschalk (“Ms. Gottschalk”) met in February of 2014
when Defendant hired Ms. Gottschalk as a prostitute. From then until May of 2014,
Defendant and Ms. Gottschalk continued in an illicit intimate relationship, with
Defendant acting as both a pimp and protection for Ms. Gottschalk. In exchange,
Def... More...   $0 (11-21-2017 - NC)

In his appeal as of right to the Court of Criminal Appeals, the defendant argued: (1) that the evidence was insufficient to support his convictions for first degree premeditated murder and attempted first degree murder; (2) that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress his statements to the police; (3) that double jeopardy principles prohibited his dual convictions for possessing a... More...   $0 (11-20-2017 - TN)

In 1998, Morrison was convicted of “first-degree murder for the January 8,
1997, killing of Albert Dwelle, which occurred during the course of a robbery upon
Dwelle in his apartment in Duval County,” and “armed robbery with a deadly
weapon and burglary of a dwelling with intent to commit a battery, with an assault
or battery on Dwelle.” Morrison v. State, 818 So. 2d 432, 437 (... More...   $0 (11-18-2017 - FL)

After Marilyn Marche Kirkland admitted to having murdered Clinton Wayne Saizon in late
2015 by shooting him once in the chest with a handgun, the question of Kirkland’s punishment
and the bizarre facts of her case were submitted to a Harrison County jury. After a two-day
punishment trial, the jury assessed Kirkland’s punishment at forty years’ imprisonment, as
requested by the... More...   $0 (11-17-2017 - TX)

The First Sentencing Hearing. In February 2014, Moreno was charged with
violating his community control by failing to complete a mental health evaluation;
failing to register for a domestic violence class; and failing to submit to a random
drug test. A few months later, in May, at the community control violation hearing,
Moreno asked the trial court to discharge his public de... More...   $0 (11-13-2017 - FL)

On April 28, 2016, a Franklin County Grand Jury indicted Ludwick for one count of conspiracy in connection with a plot to hire someone to murder his wife. (Apr. 28, 2016 Indictment at 1-2.) A trial began in the case with jury selection on February 6, 2017. (Tr. Vol. I at 5, filed on May 15, 2017.) The three witnesses who testified during the trial were the detective who investigated the case,... More...   $0 (11-12-2017 - OH)

During the early morning hours of April 18, 2013, four people were murdered in
the basement of an apartment on Kimlyn Circle in Akron. R.R., one of the victims, resided at the
apartment and had received a sizeable amount of heroin the night before his murder. The three
other victims found alongside him were K.W., his girlfriend; M.N., a female friend of K.W.; and
K.D., a mal... More...   $0 (11-12-2017 - OH)

Appellant was convicted of the 1991 murder of Peter Sanelli, for which he
was sentenced to death. The evidence established that appellant shot and killed Peter
while he and Thomas Sowell were stealing Peter’s car on Prospect Avenue in Cleveland.
A detailed recitation of the evidence adduced at trial can be found in this court’s opinion
that resulted from appellant’s direct a... More...   $0 (11-12-2017 - OH)

On April 29, 1993, Durant pleaded guilty to one count of rape in violation
of R.C. 2907.02 and one count of aggravated robbery in violation of R.C. 2923.02 and
2911.01. Both counts stem from an incident that occurred on November 19, 1992.
Durant, then 19 years old, came upon his 28-year-old victim while she was jogging in
Forest Hills Park. Intending to rob the victim, Dura... More...   $0 (11-11-2017 - OH)

On February 2, 2016, Daniel Ashbaugh came to the Crawford County Sheriff's Office and advised that he wanted to turn himself in for molesting his grandsons. After being advised of his Miranda rights, Ashbaugh confessed to Deputy Scott Tyrell that he had molested his two five-year-old grandsons, H.A. and T.A. Ashbaugh was 65 years old.

Based on an affidavit of probable cause prepared by ... More...   $0 (11-10-2017 - KS)

Milwaukee, WI - Jury Finds Man Mentally Ill When He Committed Triple Murder

The State of Wisconsin charged Dan Popp with three counts of first-degree intentional homicide for killing Mai Vue and Phia Vue and Jesus Panso-Perez.

Popp claimed insanity as his defense.

Charge(s)
Count No.

1

940.01(1)(a)

1st-Degree Intentional Homicide
<... More...   $0 (11-10-2017 - WI)

The petitioners, former shareholders of Kay Company (“Kay Co.”) and Kay Co, LLC (“Kay LLC”),1 appeal from two orders2 entered by the Circuit Court of Kanawha County through which summary judgment was granted to the respondent McGuireWoods, LLP (“McGuireWoods” or “MW”) in connection with claims the petitioners filed against McGuireWoods, their former legal counsel.3 As grounds for their appeal, the... More...   $0 (11-09-2017 - WV)