Phoenix, AZ - Danny Martinez Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murder of Phoenix Police Officer

Danny Ledezma Martinez (D.O.B. 10/16/1979) will spend the rest of his natural life in prison for fatally shooting Phoenix Police Officer Travis Murphy in 2010. In the sentence imposed today by the Honorable Teresa Sanders, Martinez was also ordered to serve an additional consecutive term totaling

These appeals are being dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Appellant was convicted of criminal trespass and placed on community supervision in each case. Thereafter, Appellant filed a notice of appeal. To be sufficient to invoke the appellate court’s full jurisdiction, the notice of appeal filed by an appellant in a criminal case must bear the trial court’s certification of the appellant’s ri

A Gregg County jury found Brendan Xavier Douglas guilty of the May 15, 2012, capital
murder of Deandre Rossum, and the trial court sentenced him to the mandatory punishment of life
imprisonment without parole.1 In his appeal to this Court, Douglas asserts that there was legally
insufficient evidence to convict him of capital murder and that the trial court erred (1) in failing to <

The Clarke Circuit Court dismissed both the claims asserted by St. Union Baptist Church, Inc. ("the corporation"), against Reverend James M. Howard, Sr., and the counterclaims asserted by Howard against the corporation and its directors after concluding that their dispute was ecclesiastical in nature and outside the jurisdiction of the court. We affirm the trial court's dismissal of the corporatio

In July 2015, Thomas was convicted in a bench trial of Class A misdemeanor
criminal trespass. The trial court sentenced him to 365 days in the Marion
County Jail, with 357 days suspended to non-reporting probation. Thomas was
also ordered to pay a fine and court costs as well as probation fees. The trial
court specifically ordered that the probation fees would be “sliding fe

On April 12, 2015, Mitchell and Melissa Degen were traveling in a car that
Mitchell had recently stolen. While stopped at a truck stop in Whiteland, they
began to argue. They continued to argue in the car as they drove away;
Mitchell was driving and Degen was in the front passenger seat. The argument
then became physical as Mitchell slapped Degen’s face, pulled her hair, and

Mitchell was indicted for an aggravated sexual assault of S.T. that occurred
on or about October 12, 2013, and for the aggravated sexual assault and aggravated
kidnapping of T.C. that occurred on or about October 13, 2013.2 Mitchell pleaded
“not guilty” to all charges. At trial, S.T. testified that, on the evening in question,
she was walking around the apartment complex where

In 2012, a grand jury indicted Stephenson for entering a habitation owned by J.H.2 with the intent to commit theft. The indictment contains enhancement counts,
which assert that Stephenson had committed four prior sequenced felonies. Based
on the enhancement counts, if at least two of the enhancement paragraphs were
found by the jury to be true, a trial in the case subjected Stephen

Defendant was indicted for aggravated burglary, aggravated stalking, and four counts of aggravated assault. The following evidence was presented at trial. Officer Felicia McGowan of the Memphis Police Department testified that she was dispatched to a location on Leflore Place on April 16, 2013, around 8:40 p.m., based on a domestic disturbance call. Officer McGowan noticed that a 1996 Pontiac Fi

In the wee hours of March 14, 2013, a neighbor witnessed a man
smoking a cigarette inside a house that the neighbor knew was unoccupied at
the time. (The owner of the house had purchased it in December 2012 and was
in the midst of renovating it before moving in.) The neighbor called police, who
arrived at the house shortly thereafter.
Upon their arrival, police surrounded

Belork is the owner of real property in Starke County, Indiana, which he uses in
part to raise cattle. Jan Ferch is the owner of real property along the eastern
boundary of Belork’s property, and Ferch’s farming operation includes grain
production. DMK&H is the owner of real property along the southern
boundary of Belork’s property, and its farming operation includes grain

At approximately mid-day on September 18, 2013, Gareth Evans returned to
his residence at the Penn Circle Apartments in Carmel to eat lunch and walk
his dog. While standing in a grassy area outside of his apartment building with
his dog, Evans noticed a red Toyota Corolla parked directly outside the front
door to the building. Evans observed that the Corolla appeared to be ru

Defendant Dylan Stinson appeals from a judgment finding him
liable to plaintiffs Kevin and Linda Flanagan for damage to their vacation home from a fire
started in an outdoor fireplace on their deck by a group of teenagers who were there without their
permission. Stinson contends that: (1) there was insufficient evidence to find him liable for the
damage under a concerted-acti

On March 9, 2015, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (“IMPD”)
Officer Dominic Smith received a radio dispatch concerning a tip that a resident
of the Meadowlark Apartment complex (“Meadowlark”) had seen a “person
with a gun” in the complex. Tr. at 7. The resident, who identified herself as
Edith Williams to the 9-1-1 operator, described the person as having a “[w]hit

On March 9, 2015, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (“IMPD”)
Officer Dominic Smith received a radio dispatch concerning a tip that a resident
of the Meadowlark Apartment complex (“Meadowlark”) had seen a “person
with a gun” in the complex. Tr. at 7. The resident, who identified herself as
Edith Williams to the 9-1-1 operator, described the person as having a “[w]hit

The Speedway Police Department had an agreement with the management of
Coppertree Apartment Complex (“Coppertree”) providing that its police
officers could act as agents of Coppertree and remove individuals who lacked a
contractual interest in the property. Tr. at 49-50, 93. In May 2014, around 8:30
Court of Appeals of Indiana | Memorandum Decision 49A02-1509-CR-1497 | April

In March 2014, Exon was indicted for robbery, in violation of R.C.
2911.02(A)(2). The charges stemmed from the robbery of a Speedway gas station in
Springfield on February 16, 2014. Exon was arrested in May 2014. At the time of his
arrest, there were warrants for his arrest in several other cases.
{¶ 4} A jury trial in this matter was scheduled for September 10, 2014. The d

The defendant, Javier R. Monge, appealsfromthejudgmentsofthetrialcourtdismissing hispostsentencingmotiontovacatehisguiltypleasand to open the judgments of conviction. The dispositive issue is whether the court properly concluded that it lacked jurisdiction to consider the merits of that motion. We answer that query in the affirmative and, accordingly, affirm the judgment of the trial court. The fo

The trial court found the following facts when it denied the defendant’s motion to suppress. On June 7, 2012, Joseph Jennings was arrested on drugrelated charges and released on personal recognizance bail to the custody of
the defendant. That day, he was also served with a temporary order of protection that prohibited him, and third parties acting on his behalf, from contacting a certain wo

On April 9, 2014, shortly after midnight, South Bend Police Officers Erik
Schlegelmilch and Michael Stuk observed a fast-moving vehicle travel through
a red light. The officers began to pursue the vehicle, which was driven by a
person later identified as Talton. Attempting to initiate a traffic stop, the
officers activated their police vehicle’s emergency lights and siren. T

We discern the following facts and procedural history from
the record. On the morning of August 18, 2006, the body of
seventy-five year old Mary Bostian was found in a bedroom of her
home in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. Her hands and feet were bound
with cords. An autopsy subsequently revealed that she suffered
blunt force trauma to many parts of her body, bruising on her

Viewed in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdict, the jury
rationally could have found the following facts, which are supported by competent
evidence, beyond a reasonable doubt. See State v. Jones, 2012 ME 88, ¶ 7,
46 A.3d 1125.
[¶3] In June 2012, a game warden investigator went to the Allagash as part
of an undercover investigation designed to make contact wi

On April 12, 2006, Ernest Smith was gunned down just outside his home on
10700 Roger Drive, Apartment “D” in a relatively abandoned area of New Orleans
East. He had received two fatal gunshot wounds to the chest. His wife, Emma,
heard the shots just before Ernest Smith came through the front door. She then
called 911 at around 11:30 p.m.2 At the time of Ernest Smith’s death

Pursuant to Section I, Paragraph 3(c), Montana Supreme Court Internal Operating
Rules, this case is decided by memorandum opinion and shall not be cited and does not
serve as precedent. Its case title, cause number, and disposition shall be included in this
Court’s quarterly list of noncitable cases published in the Pacific Reporter and Montana
Reports.
¶2 Richard Clay Br

On the evening of July 21, 1999, Albert Smith was at his house in Memphis, Tennessee, with his friend Deana T. and his eight-year-old son. An older man, later identified as Genore Dancy,1 forced his way into the house. A younger man, later identified as the petitioner, Rashe Moore, entered the house a few minutes later. Both Mr. Moore and Mr. Dancy were armed with handguns during the home invas