Oakland, CA - Alameda Real Estate Developer And Its President Plead Guilty To Securities Fraud And Wildlife Violations

An Alameda County development company, Wildlife Management, LLC, and its President, James Tong, pleaded guilty to crimes related to the illegal submission to the City of Dublin of a forged payment receipt. The two plea agreements relate to charges that the defendants, af... More...   $0 (01-12-2016 - CA)

Regika Tillery testified that she lived in the Emma Wheeler Homes housing development in Chattanooga. Ms. Tillery testified that on the evening of March 10, 2011, she was watching a basketball game with her boyfriend, Reginald Hubbard, and three friends. Ms. Tillery admitted that Mr. Hubbard and her friends were smoking marijuana that evening but denied that she had been because she was nine mon... More...   $0 (01-11-2016 - TN)

After completing his duties for the day, Appellant drove to the off-base home of a friend and fellow Airman. He arrived between 2300 and 2330 and saw that a neighbor’s home had been left unsecured; the windows were open and the lights were on, but it did not appear that anyone was home. After first checking the front door and finding it locked, Appellant entered the garage through an unlocked pa... More...   $0 (01-09-2016 - MD)

Regika Tillery testified that she lived in the Emma Wheeler Homes housing development in Chattanooga. Ms. Tillery testified that on the evening of March 10, 2011, she was watching a basketball game with her boyfriend, Reginald Hubbard, and three friends. Ms. Tillery admitted that Mr. Hubbard and her friends were smoking marijuana that evening but denied that she had been because she was nine mon... More...   $0 (01-09-2016 - TN)

The underlying details of defendant’s convictions and sentences have been previously recited by the appellate court. See People v. Thompson, No. 1-95-2040 (1997) (unpublished order under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 23). Thus, we do not repeat those details and summarize only the facts relevant to our disposition here.

¶ 4 On March 26, 1994, defendant Dennis Thompson fatally shot his fat... More...   $0 (01-09-2016 - IL)

Defendant was charged with aggravated kidnapping, vehicular hijacking, vehicular invasion, kidnapping, eight counts of violation of an order of protection, and eight counts of domestic battery for an incident that occurred on March 30, 2010. The following evidence was adduced at trial.¶ 4 The victim, S.M., testified that she and defendant had three children together. At the time of trial, the chi... More...   $0 (01-06-2016 - IL)

The defendant, Jeffrey Yeaw, appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, of three counts of attempt to commit assault in the first degree in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a49 (a) (2)1 and 53a-59 (a) (5),2 and three counts of attempttocommitassaultofapeaceofficerinviolation of General Statutes §§ 53a-49 (a) (2) and 53a-167c (a) (1).3 On appeal, the defendant claims t... More...   $0 (01-04-2016 - CT)

A grand jury indicted Adams for having devised and carried out a scheme to defraud the United States Agency for International Development. Adams agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud in return for which the Government would move to dismiss the other 21 counts in the indictment. The agreement explained the sentence would be determined by the court and the... More...   $0 (01-04-2016 - DC)

Tawuan Townes appeals his conviction for capital murder and his sentence of death. Townes was convicted of murder made capital for intentionally killing Christopher Woods during the course of a burglary. See § 13A-5-40(a)(4), Ala. Code 1975. The jury, by a vote of 10-2, recommended that Townes be sentenced to death. The Houston Circuit Court accepted the jury's recommendation and sentenced Town... More...   $0 (01-02-2016 - AL)

"On July 17, 2004, Officers Carlos Owen, Harley A. Chisolm III, and Charles R. Bennett, of the Birmingham Police Department, were shot and killed, and a fourth officer, Officer Michael Collins, also of the Birmingham Police Department, was shot but survived. Officer Collins testified that while on patrol that morning, he heard a radio transmission from Officer Owen indicating that Officer Owen wa... More...   $0 (01-02-2016 - AL)

Defendant, Verdell Reese, III, was charged with second-degree murder 2 and, alternatively, voluntary manslaughter 3 for the April 2008 death of Leonardo Johnson.4 Defendant waived his right to a jury [815 N.W.2d 88]trial and proceeded to a bench trial in the Wayne Circuit Court. [491 Mich. 131]According to testimony adduced at trial, defendant owed $2,000 to Johnson, who was so upse... More...   $0 (01-02-2016 - MI)

This case requires us to decide whether, in a murder prosecution, a jury can find a defendant guilty of voluntary manslaughter, as opposed to murder, on the basis of evidence that the defendant's actions were influenced by a serious psychological condition that does not rise to the level of insanity and does not negate the defendant's specific intent to kill. It also obliges us to reconcile dispar... More...   $0 (01-02-2016 - VT)

On February 9, 2001, Richardson, who was 16 years old, was arrested at 4837 South St. Lawrence Avenue in Chicago in connection with the murder of his 11-month-old daughter, Diamond Clark. At the police station, Richardson gave a videotaped statement in which he made inculpatory remarks, including that he bit his daughter, struck her numerous times with a coat hanger and belt, struck her face with ... More...   $0 (01-02-2016 - IL)

In January 1999 a warrant was issued for Defendant's arrest for failure to appear at a state criminal trial on drug charges. That September an agent for Oklahoma's District 27 Drug Task Force learned from a confidential informant that Defendant had methamphetamine at his residence. The confidential informant also told the agent that Defendant had promised to kill any officer who came to arrest hi... More...   $0 (01-02-2016 - OK)

The appellant, Jerry Bohannon, appeals his convictions for two counts of murder defined as capital by § 13A-5-40(a)(10), Ala. Code 1975, because Anthony Harvey and Jerry DuBoise were murdered by one act or pursuant to one scheme or Page 2 course of conduct. The jury recommended, by a vote of 11 to 1, that Bohannon be sentenced to death. The circuit court followed the jury's recommendation and sen... More...   $0 (01-02-2016 - AL)

Appellant asserts that “portions of the victim impact statement [admitted before sentencing] contained uncharged misconduct including accusations of threatening behavior, assault, and other actions with which the appellant was not charged.” He contends that the military judge erred in admitting the uncharged misconduct, because the prejudicial effect of the evidence outweighed its probative value... More...   $0 (01-02-2016 - DC)

TJ, a family business, sold ceramic, tile, marble, granite, and other related
products from the time of its incorporation on January 2, 1962, through January 2011.
Around 1975, Philip Mularoni (“Mr. Mularoni”) and his brother, Richard Mularoni, purchased TJ from their parents, and, in 1991, Mr. Mularoni became the company’s sole owner and president. (PM Dep. 13:7-18, 14:7
13.) In ... More...   $0 (01-01-2016 - NY)

Kermit Ty Poulson appeals the order of the Eleventh Judicial District Court,
Flathead County, which revoked his suspended sentences and reimposed his two
consecutive two-year commitments to the Montana Department of Corrections (DOC) for
the convictions of felony criminal possession of dangerous drugs and felony
bail-jumping. The two convictions were filed as separate appeals... More...   $0 (12-31-2015 - MT)

This case arises out of the brutal assault and murder of the victim, Starr Harris, on June 1, 2010. The Defendant, Rickey Alvis Bell, Jr., subsequently was indicted for one count of first degree felony murder during the perpetration of a kidnapping, one count of first degree felony murder during the perpetration of a rape, one count of especially aggravated kidnapping, and one count of aggravated... More...   $0 (12-28-2015 - TN)

This court’s opinion in State v. Manning, supra, sets forth the facts
that led to Manning’s 2014 conviction of three felony charges of possession
of marijuana, cocaine, and ecstasy (methylenedioxymethcathinone) with
intent to distribute and the misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia.
While Manning’s appeal was pending, the state filed a habitual offender bill
on June 11, ... More...   $0 (12-28-2015 - LA)

This case arises out of the brutal assault and murder of the victim, Starr Harris, on June 1, 2010. The Defendant, Rickey Alvis Bell, Jr., subsequently was indicted for one count of first degree felony murder during the perpetration of a kidnapping, one count of first degree felony murder during the perpetration of a rape, one count of especially aggravated kidnapping, and one count of aggravated ... More...   $0 (12-28-2015 - TN)

¶ 2. Defendant and the State entered a plea agreement, in exchange for which the
charge was amended and other charges against defendant were dismissed. The plea agreement
contemplated a contested sentencing hearing allowing the State to argue for a sentence of up to
forty years to life to serve and defendant to argue for a sentence of ten years to life, split to serve
five yea... More...   $0 (12-27-2015 - VT)

This case arises out of the brutal assault and murder of the victim, Starr Harris, on June 1, 2010. The Defendant, Rickey Alvis Bell, Jr., subsequently was indicted for one count of first degree felony murder during the perpetration of a kidnapping, one count of first degree felony murder during the perpetration of a rape, one count of especially aggravated kidnapping, and one count of aggravated... More...   $0 (12-27-2015 - TN)

Robinson was a self-employed, but not entirely successful, entrepreneur. In the 1970s, he formed Hydro-Gro, Inc., a company that produced hydroponic vegetables. In the 1980s, Robinson offered financial consulting services through his company Equi II. His operations were interrupted when he was convicted of a nonperson felony and incarcerated at the Western Missouri Correctional Center in Cameron,... More...   $0 (12-26-2015 - KS)

On April 23, 1997, twenty-one year-old Angela Holmes and sixteen-year-old Michelle Mace were abducted and murdered while working at the Baskin-Robbins ice cream store on Wilma Rudolph Boulevard in Clarksville, Tennessee. Both Ms. Holmes's and Ms. Mace's bodies were found the following morning at the Dunbar Cave State Park in Clarksville. Appellant was indicted for the kidnapping and murders of M... More...   $0 (12-26-2015 - TN)