A Florida jury convicted Timothy Lee Hurst of murdering his co-worker, Cynthia Harrison. A penalty-phase jury recommended that Hurst’s judge impose a death sentence. Notwithstanding this recommendation, Florida law required the judge to hold a separate hearing and determine whether sufficient aggravating circumstances existed to justify imposing the death penalty. The judge so found and sentence... More...   $0 (01-12-2016 - DC)

Rockford, IL - Former Evanston Man Convicted of Robbing First Federal Savings Bank in Rock Falls

A former Evanston, Ill. man was convicted of bank robbery following a three-day jury trial in federal court in Rockford.

CONRAD J. GONZALEZ, 47, was found guilty of robbing the First Federal Savings Bank, located at 701 1st Ave., in Rock Falls, Ill. on Oct. 30, 2013.

Accordi... More...   $0 (01-12-2016 - IL)

Following a jury trial, the Petitioner was convicted by a Knox County jury of aggravated robbery, a Class B felony; evading arrest, a Class D felony; and driving under the influence (DUI), a Class A misdemeanor. See Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 39-13-402, -16603, 55-10-401. The trial court sentenced him as a career offender to consecutive terms of thirty years and twelve years for the aggravated robbery a... More...   $0 (01-12-2016 - TN)

This case arises from a robbery that occurred in an apartment complex on December 20, 2011. A Davidson County grand jury indicted the Defendant for one count of aggravated robbery. At his trial on this charge, the parties presented the following evidence: Audrey Myers testified that she was thirty at the time of trial. On December 20, 2011, she visited her boyfriend, Jude Mena, who lived in th... More...   $0 (01-12-2016 - TN)

Following a jury trial in Superior Court (Abramson, J.), the defendant, Oscar Grande, was convicted of armed robbery. See RSA 636:1 (2007). On appeal, he argues that his trial counsel was ineffective by failing to contest the admission of evidence concerning an uncharged robbery. We affirm. The relevant facts follow. On January 9, 2013, two men, both wearing masks and gloves, and one carryi... More...   $0 (01-12-2016 - NH)

The jury found Davis-Drew guilty after it heard evidence of the following events.
E.P. finished his shift at Target’s distribution center in Fridley at 2:00 on an early October
2013 morning. On his way home, he stopped by an automatic teller machine and withdrew
$340, dropped off a coworker, and stopped at a gas station. He there encountered three
men, all strangers to him: T.... More...   $0 (01-12-2016 - MN)

In November 2013, appellant Gideon Charles Arrington, II approached Z.A. as she
left her workplace to run errands and told her that he was a police officer. When Z.A.
returned to her workplace, Arrington forced her into his vehicle, threatened to shoot her if
she did not comply, and stuck an object into her back that she believed to be a gun.
Arrington handcuffed Z.A., blindf... More...   $0 (01-12-2016 - MN)

A jury found Trevejon Killings guilty of premeditated first-degree murder, and he received a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for 50 years (hard 50 life sentence). On direct appeal before this court, Killings argues: (1) The district court erred by failing to instruct the jury on second-degree intentional murder and second-degree reckless murder as lesser included off... More...   $0 (01-12-2016 - KS)

According to Doubleday’s testimony at trial, a gang member threatened to kill
him and his family if he did not repay a $1300–$1500 debt. Another gang member then
hit him in the back of the head and knocked him unconscious.
¶5 The next night, the gang member to whom Doubleday allegedly owed the debt
told Doubleday to commit a robbery in order to obtain the money due. The gang ... More...   $0 (01-12-2016 - CO)

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)

On October 28, 2013, the Petitioner entered guilty pleas in several cases pursuant to a plea agreement with the State. The Petitioner pled guilty as follows: (1) aggravated assault in Case Number 102177 (Count 9) in exchange for a six-year sentence, which would run consecutively to a sentence that the Petitioner was already serving in another case; (2) attempted aggravated robbery also in Case Nu... More...   $0 (01-11-2016 - TN)

The Defendant was indicted in case number 09-02888 with one count of aggravated robbery.1 At trial, the victim, Lashanda Jones Hines,2 testified that, on October 14, 2008, she picked up one of her sons from school, made a trip to the grocery store, and returned home at approximately 3:30 or 4:00 p.m. When Mrs. Jones pulled into her apartment complex, she saw a man, whom she later identified as t... More...   $0 (01-11-2016 - TN)

Over the course of a year and a half, four separate bank robberies occurred in Boone County Indiana at the Key Bank of Zionsville and the Dover Branch of the State Bank of Lizton. The first robbery occurred on March 21, 2006 at the Key Bank of Zionsville. The next two robberies occurred on April 16, 2007 and July 19, 2007 at the State Bank of Lizton. The final robbery occurred on September 19, ... More...   $0 (01-11-2016 - IN)

Andrew Amison appeals his convictions for two counts of felony murder, see § 13A-6-2(a)(3), Ala. Code 1975, and his resulting sentences of 32 years in prison. Amison's sentences were ordered to run concurrently.
CR-13-0707 On November 22, 2011, Amison and his accomplice, Broderick Brown, robbed and killed Sam Richardson in Richardson's barbershop. Amison was indicted for two counts 1 of capi... More...   $0 (01-10-2016 - AL)

In February 2015, Vincenzo Tollisentered into a plea agreement with the State through which he pleaded guilty to one count of Robbery in theFirst Degree.2He did so in exchange for dismissal of the remaining charges and a favorable sentencing recommendation (the State’s withholding of a habitual criminal petition3 and request for twelve years unsuspended imprisonment4). His sentencing occurred a c... More...   $0 (01-10-2016 - DE)

In June 1999, Jake Giles, a seventeen-year-old juvenile at the time of the
offenses, entered guilty pleas to second-degree robbery and attempted murder in
exchange for dismissal of theft charges. Because both offenses carried
mandatory minimum terms, the “fighting issue” at sentencing was whether the
district court would order the terms to be served concurrently or consecutive... More...   $0 (01-10-2016 - IA)

In 1997, a Phillips County jury found petitioner Androus Hall guilty of aggravated
robbery, first-degree battery, and attempted rape. The judgment reflects that an aggregate
sentence of 576 months’ imprisonment in the Arkansas Department of Correction was
imposed. On November 10, 2014, Hall filed in the trial court a petition for writ of habeas
corpus under Act 1780 of 2001 A... More...   $0 (01-10-2016 - AR)

On October 15, 2012, David Purvis, vice president of safety at Ergon Trucking in
Flowood, Mississippi, noticed suspicious activity in the Ergon parking lot involving a man
in a Chevrolet Trailblazer.1 Purvis reported the suspicious activity and the Trailblazer’s
license-plate number to the Flowood Police Department.
¶3. On October 19, 2012, at 8:15 a.m., Barton Lampton parked hi... More...   $0 (01-09-2016 - MS)

This 6th day of January 2016, upon consideration of the appellant’s brief
filed pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 26(c), his attorney’s motion to withdraw, and
the State’s response, it appears to the Court that:
(1) Shortly after midnight on July 29, 2013, a man described as wearing a
gray mask, green tee shirt, fatigue-style camouflage shorts, and black work gloves,
entered ... More...   $0 (01-09-2016 - DE)

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)

On June 12, 2013, the State filed an information charging defendant Sandro Espinoza with domestic battery (720 ILCS 5/12-3.2(a)(2) (West 2012)). The information stated that, “said defendant, knowingly, without legal justification made physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature with a minor, a family or household member, in that said defendant struck the minor about the face, in violation... More...   $0 (01-09-2016 - IL)

RICHMOND, Va. – Wayne Lewis, 30, of Richmond, was sentenced today to 71 months in prison for his role as the getaway driver in a November 2014 robbery of the Woods Edge Exxon located in Chesterfield County.

Lewis plead guilty on October 8, 2015. According to court documents, on Nov. 23, 2014, Lewis drove his accomplice Spencer Harris to the Woods Edge Road Exxon. While Lewis waited in t... More...   $0 (01-08-2016 - VA)

Memphis, TN - Memphis Man Sentenced to 120 Months for Bank, Business Robberies

Memphis man sentenced to 120 months for robbing a First Tennessee Bank and Family Dollar Store.

According to court information, on March 30, 2014, Marchello Moore, 34, entered the Family Dollar on Knight Arnold Road and posed as a customer. Moore approached the counter and acted as if he was going to ... More...   $0 (01-08-2016 - TN)

Baltimore, Maryland – Jeff V. Hare, age 53, of Berlin, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.

The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Kevin Perkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Worcester County Sheriff Reggie T. Mason, Sr.;... More...   $0 (01-08-2016 - MD)

On November 2, 2013, Cedar Rapids Police Officers responded to a 911 call regarding a shooting. Once the officers arrived at the scene of the shooting, Officer Zach Jeffries spoke with Brown, who was walking across the street and “thought he had been shot.” After conducting a pat-down of Brown, Officer Jeffries determined Brown had not been shot nor did Brown have any weapons. Next, Officer Je... More...   $0 (01-07-2016 - IA)