Defendant Shannon M. Sidorek was charged by a Burlington
County grand jury in Indictment No. 13-04-0480 with: first
degree aggravated manslaughter, N.J.S.A. 2C:11-4a(1); second
degree vehicular homicide, N.J.S.A. 2C:11-5a; and third-degree
possession of a controlled dangerous substance, N.J.S.A. 2C:35
10a(1). State v. Sidorek, No. A-2877-13 (App. Div. Oct. 7,
2014) (sli... More...   $0 (04-16-2016 - NJ)

The petitioner in a post-conviction proceeding bears the burden of establishing
the grounds for relief by a preponderance of the evidence. Ind. Post-Conviction
Rule 1(5); Fisher v. State, 810 N.E.2d 674, 679 (Ind. 2004). When appealing
from the denial of post-conviction relief, the petitioner stands in the position of
one appealing from a negative judgment. Id. On review, w... More...   $0 (04-15-2016 - IN)

Beginning in 2008, Louisiana State Police (“LSP”) began
investigating Defendant for drug trafficking offenses, along with his co
conspirators Ivory Mock (aka Deek), David Green (aka Goose), Anthony
Glosson (aka Ant), and Curtis Brown (aka Slew Foot). A conspiracy case
was made against Mock and a distribution case was made against Green. In
November 2009, Trp. Shelton Crooks a... More...   $0 (04-14-2016 - LA)

At approximately 2:00 a.m. on July 10, 2010, after an evening of
consuming alcohol, Kvasnicka caused a fatal automobile accident by driving her
vehicle southbound in the northbound lane of Interstate 229 near Sioux Falls.
Although Kvasnicka was not seriously injured, one passenger in the car she struck
died at the scene and another passenger suffered a serious injury to his ar... More...   $0 (04-11-2016 - SD)

The State of Florida appeals two orders suppressing the results of warrantless blood draws taken from Wade F. Liles and John Nathan Willis during drunk driving investigations involving separate traffic crash fatalities.1 In both cases, the trial courts found that, pursuant to the United States Supreme Court's holding in Missouri v. McNeely, 133 S. Ct. 1552 (2013), the blood draw results were inad... More...   $0 (04-10-2016 - FL)

On January 16, 2013, the defendant Adam Batiste, III called 911 and
requested help for his girlfriend, Gabriella Spencer, stating that she had fallen in
the shower, was not responsive, and was barely breathing. When the fire
department arrived, they saw that Ms. Spencer appeared to have been severely
beaten and summoned the police. Ms. Spencer was taken to the hospital where ... More...   $0 (04-09-2016 - LA)

On the morning of June 11, 2012, Freeman drove with his seven-year-old daughter,
Jayden, from Brandon, Mississippi, to Jackson, Mississippi. Freeman was looking for his
wife (and Jayden’s mother), Lenora Freeman. Freeman testified that he was able to locate
Lenora using the GPS technology on Lenora’s cell phone, which Freeman could access on
his cell phone. According to Lenora’s... More...   $0 (04-08-2016 - MS)

This case presents a murder-for-hire or contract killing scenario. On April 15, 2013, a Bedford County grand jury charged the Defendant with criminal responsibility for the first-degree premeditated murder of her husband, Larry Walls, Sr. (“the victim”), based upon her participation in the killing and with conspiring along with Jason Starrick, Sean Gearhardt, and Dawn Walls, daughter of the Defen... More...   $0 (04-07-2016 - TN)

On May 24, 2014, at approximately 5:08 p.m., Blaine Police Officer Matzke was
dispatched to a two-vehicle accident. Officer Matzke observed that the driver of a vehicle
with heavy damage was bleeding and obviously injured. The driver told Officer Matzke
that she was driving through an intersection when she “t-boned” a vehicle that ran a red
light. Blaine Police Officer Hawle... More...   $0 (04-07-2016 - MN)

Following an evidentiary hearing ordered by the Supreme
Court in State v. Adkins, 221 N.J. 300, 303 (2015), and with
leave granted, the State appeals from the Law Division's June 25,
2015 order granting defendant Timothy Adkins's motion to suppress
the blood alcohol content (BAC) results the State obtained from a
warrantless blood draw. We affirm.
I.
We begin b... More...   $0 (04-01-2016 - NJ)

Defendant Samuel Rodriguez appeals his conviction,
following a trial de novo, of driving while intoxicated (DWI),
N.J.S.A. 39:4-50, and refusal to submit to a chemical breath
test (refusal), N.J.S.A. 39:4-50.2. Having considered
defendant's arguments in light of the facts and applicable law,
we affirm substantially for the reasons set forth in the Law
Division judge'... More...   $0 (04-01-2016 - NJ)

At the time of the incident, Mr. Watts was living with his girlfriend, Diana Lynch, in a rental house outside of Cody, Wyoming. On January 9, 2014, Ms. Lynch was at home when Mr. Watts returned from work. The two argued when Ms. Lynch told Mr. Watts that she did not want him watching television in the same room in which she had been reading. Ms. Lynch testified that after a brief “hand skirmish... More...   $0 (03-31-2016 - WY)

This case stems from a burglary that took place on May 30, 2011, in Union City. In relation to this incident, the Petitioner was indicted for aggravated burglary, theft over $500, and evading arrest. This court summarized the underlying facts of the Petitioner’s case on direct appeal as follows:
On May 30, 2011, Todd and Amy Petty and their four-year-old daughter were asleep in their ho... More...   $0 (03-30-2016 - TN)

“When reviewing a trial court’s refusal to give a proffered jury instruction, we view the
evidence in the light most favorable to the proponent of the instruction,” in this case appellant.
Commonwealth v. Vaughn. Toward the end of April 2012, appellant’s relationship with his girlfriend, Takea Turner
(Turner), seriously deteriorated. Appellant testified that he assumed that Turner... More...   $0 (03-28-2016 - VA)

In November 2012, twenty-three-year-old Morgan Mannix went home for
Thanksgiving. She stayed with her parents, who lived on the northeast side of
Indianapolis. The day after Thanksgiving, Mannix drove to a friend’s house at 96th Street
and Allisonville Road. According to Mannix, she drank “probably” six Bud
Light beers between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. Ex. 14. She stopped drinkin... More...   $0 (03-24-2016 - IN)

Tylor Patrick drove a vehicle with five other occupants. He ran into a
ditch, hit a field driveway, and was airborne for about forty-six feet before landing
and rolling the vehicle. One of the occupants died.
The State charged Patrick with vehicular homicide and operating a motor
vehicle while intoxicated, first offense. See Iowa Code §§ 321J.2, 707.6A (2013).
The jur... More...   $0 (03-23-2016 - IA)

Armstead contends that she was injured in a car accident that occurred on or
about November 21, 2013. In her Original Petition, filed on August 11, 2015,
Armstead alleged that she was a passenger in a motor vehicle that was traveling on
Magnolia Avenue in Beaumont that “collided with” the Defendant’s vehicle.
According to a Texas Peace Officer’s Crash Report (the Accident Repo... More...   $0 (03-20-2016 - TX)

After appellant pleaded guilty, the trial court reset the case for a pre-sentence
investigation (“PSI”) hearing and ordered the preparation of a PSI report. According
to the PSI report, appellant drove a car recklessly into the opposite lane of traffic,
causing a head-on collision with a truck carrying four people. At the time of impact,
appellant’s car was traveling at 81.23... More...   $0 (03-18-2016 - TX)

The United States Secret Service began investigating an organized crime
ring that placed “skimmers,” or devices that capture credit information and permit
it to be wirelessly downloaded onto a nearby laptop computer, on gas pumps at gas
stations in the Dallas area. Investigators suspected that Minassian was a
participant in the scheme. A confidential informant notified office... More...   $0 (03-18-2016 - TX)

Norman, OK - Nicholette Custable sued Sunny Moore-Davis on an auto negligence theory claiming:

1. Plaintiff, Nicholette Custable is a resident of Grapevine, Texas located in Tarrant County, Texas.
2. Defendant, Sunny Moore-Davies is a resident of Norman, Oklahoma located in Cleveland County, Oklahoma.
JURISDICTION AND VENUE

3. This Court has subject matter jurisdiction ... More...   $1 (03-16-2016 - OK)

In July 2012, Hutton spent the day drinking alcohol with his wife, Morgan
Hutton, and their two friends, Dasan Spires and Laura Duncan, at Lake
Monroe. Later that day, the four drove in Hutton’s Jeep to a brewery, where
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Hutton continued to drink. They stayed two or three hours. ... More...   $0 (03-16-2016 - IN)

After the first phase of a bifurcated court trial on stipulated facts, appellant
Ishmael Roberts was found guilty of two counts of first-degree premeditated murder,
Minn. Stat. § 609.185(a)(1) (2014), for the stabbing deaths of two of his family members:
his adoptive grandmother,1 B.W., and 14-year-old P.W. After the second phase of the
bifurcated trial, in which the district ... More...   $0 (03-16-2016 - MN)

Oklahoma City, OK - Antionett Roach sued Kelsay L. Woods on an auto negligence theory claiming:

1. That the Plaintiff, Antoinette Roach, resides within Oklahoma County, State of Oklahoma.

2. That the Defendant, Kelsay L. Woods, resides within Washington County, State of Oklahoma.

3. That the subject automobile crash occurred in Oklahoma County, and this Court
has pro... More...   $1 (03-14-2016 - OK)

At approximately 11:45 a.m. on November 23, 2008, defendant
entered Saint Thomas Syrian Orthodox Church in Clifton and shot
and killed Reshma, his wife, and Dennis John. Silvy, Reshma's
cousin, was also shot, but she survived and is now partially
paralyzed. At trial, these facts were undisputed. The issue
was whether defendant's conduct was purposeful or knowing, as More...   $0 (03-13-2016 - NJ)

This case arises from the October 9, 2012 shooting death of Roneccia Luster at an automated teller machine (ATM) and the attempted carjacking and shooting of Charles Ratliff a few minutes later.
At the trial, Memphis Police Department (MPD) Officer Kevin Bobo testified that on October 9, 2012, around 7:00 p.m. he responded to a shots-fired call at Perkins Road and Aloha Avenue. He said t... More...   $0 (03-12-2016 - TN)