Trespass Law
 
STATE OF IOWA vs. JOHN NATHANIEL VAN WIE

Van Wie pled guilty on December 21, 2009, to fourth-degree criminal
mischief, criminal trespass, and fifth-degree theft. As a part of a plea agreement,
the State agreed to a deferred judgment.
Van Wie violated the terms of his probation agreement, and the deferred
judgment was revoked. He was sentenced to consecutive terms of incarceration
not to exceed 365 days for th

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State of Tennessee v. Timothy Damon Carter

This case arises from the theft of a comic book collection from a residence in La Vergne, Tennessee in April 2010. The Defendant was identified as a suspect in the theft when he sold or attempted to sell some of the comic books at area stores. During the investigation, law enforcement officers went to the Defendant‟s apartment and, upon seeing the stolen comic books in the backseat of a ve

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STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. JOHN MAIETTA

The defendant, John Maietta, appeals from the trial court’s finding that he violated his probation pursuant to General Statutes § 53a-32. On appeal thedefendantarguesthat:(1)thetrialcourtimproperly admitted evidence obtained in violation of the fourth andfourteenthamendmentstotheUnitedStatesconstitution and the separation of powers doctrine; (2) the evidence is insufficient to demonstrate that he

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Acosta v. Shell W. Expl. & Prod., Inc.

Plaintiffs are residents of the Westgate subdivision in Hobbs. Westgate was
3 built in the late 1970s on and near an unlined storage pit where, during its oil drilling
4 operations, Shell had placed toxic hydrocarbons in direct contact with the earth from
5 the 1940s until Shell covered the pit with “fill dirt”during the 1960s. Shell did not
6 conduct any environmental risk assessm

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Mainstay Fisheries, Inc., et al. v. Northern Waterfront Associates, L.P., et al. v. Kane and Kane, Inc., et al.

The following facts are undisputed by the parties. Plaintiff Mainstay Fisheries, Inc.
(Mainstay) is a Rhode Island corporation, which at all times material hereto, had a principal
place of business in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Plaintiff Richard F. Mudd, Sr. is a resident of
Tiverton, Rhode Island and was the sole shareholder and officer of Mainstay. He was the
Captain of the

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STATE OF IOWA vs. JOSHUA SCOTT PEARSON

On November 4, 2011, the State charged thirty-one-year-old Joshua Scott Pearson with committing sex acts with a fifteen-year-old girl. On April 17, 2012, Pearson pled guilty to two counts of sexual abuse in the third degree in violation of Iowa Code section 709.4(2)(c)(4) (2011). This section criminalizes the performance of a sex act with a fourteen- to fifteen-year-old person by an individual a

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State of Nebraska v. Laronn R. Tyson

On June 18, 2014, the State filed an information charging Tyson with one count of possession of a deadly weapon by a prohibited person, a Class ID felony, in violation of Neb. Rev. Stat. § 28-1206 (Cum. Supp. 2014), and one count of possession of a stolen firearm, a Class III felony, in violation of Neb. Rev. Stat. § 28-1212.03 (Cum. Supp. 2014). A jury trial was held on the matter. The parties st

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STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. TIM MCGEACHY, a/k/a TIMOTHY MC GEACHY

On June 15, 2010, a Hudson County grand jury returned an
indictment charging defendant Tim McGeachy with first-degree
murder, N.J.S.A. 2C:11-3(a)(1) or (2) (count one); two counts of
first-degree felony murder, N.J.S.A. 2C:11-3(a)(3) (counts two
and four); first-degree robbery, N.J.S.A. 2C:15-1 (count three);
and second-degree burglary, N.J.S.A. 2C:18-2 (count five).

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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. DAVID DWAYNE SMITH

A sign on a rural highway advertising pony rides generally prompts nostalgic
thoughts for passing motorists. But a grandfather who noticed such a sign near
Arden, North Carolina, found his interest rewarded with gunfire, followed by a series
of events giving rise to this appeal.
Defendant David Dwayne Smith (“Defendant”), who resided on the Double “S”
Ranch, was convict

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Aljerome Hill v. State of Indiana

In August 2014, Hill was at T.K.’s house. T.K. is the mother of four of his
children. After watching a movie with the children in the living room, Hill
asked T.K. to take a walk. An argument ensued. While struggling, Hill and
T.K. knocked over a couch and subsequently fell on top of it. Six-year-old T.H.
saw Hill choking T.K. Hill put a blanket over T.K.’s head. T.H. att

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Charles Dean v. The People of the State of Colorado

A jury convicted Charles E. Dean of second degree murder, a class 2 felony that
carries a maximum presumptive range sentence of twenty-four years. The trial court
adjudicated him an habitual criminal based on five previous felony convictions and
sentenced him under subsection (2) of the habitual criminal statute, § 18-1.3-801(2),
C.R.S. (2015). That provision required the tri

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Charles Dean v. The People of the State of Colorado

In October 2004, Dean severely beat his friend, Timothy Ware, and left him in a
closet to die. Dean later dismembered Ware’s body with a chainsaw in the bathtub. He
placed the body parts into trash bags and deposited them in various dumpsters around
Denver, then set fire to Ware’s apartment in an attempt to hide the remaining evidence.
Dean was charged with first degree murd

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Michael B. Purdue v. State of Indiana

Purdue was arrested for theft and resisting law enforcement on January 29,
2015 and was held in the Bartholomew County Jail until January 31; at that
time he was not formally charged. A few weeks later, on February 22, Purdue
was arrested and charged with three new counts of theft under Cause No.
03C01-1503-F6-1180 (“Cause No. 1180”). Purdue was again released. On
Febru

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State Of Nebraska v. Tyson

On June 18, 2014, the State filed an information charging Tyson with one count of possession of a deadly weapon by a prohibited person, a Class ID felony, in violation of Neb. Rev. Stat. § 28-1206 (Cum. Supp. 2014), and one count of possession of a stolen firearm, a Class III felony, in violation of Neb. Rev. Stat. § 28-1212.03 (Cum. Supp. 2014). A jury trial was held on the matter. The parties st

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State of Tennessee v. Keyvin Lanier Glass

On January 10, 2013, appellant was indicted by the Coffee County grand jury for aggravated assault in case number 40,018 and for failure to appear in case number
-2-
40,019. He pleaded guilty to both cases, and the trial court sentenced him in case number 40,018 to three years—one year in confinement with the remainder suspended to two years of supervised probation. The trial court sus

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State of Tennessee v. Keyvin Lanier Glass

On January 10, 2013, appellant was indicted by the Coffee County grand jury for aggravated assault in case number 40,018 and for failure to appear in case number
-2-
40,019. He pleaded guilty to both cases, and the trial court sentenced him in case number 40,018 to three years—one year in confinement with the remainder suspended to two years of supervised probation. The trial court sus

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State of New Hampshire v. Stanley R. West, II

The jury could have found, or the record establishes, the following facts. Shortly after midnight on December 19, 2012, Officer St. Onge of the Deerfield Police Department was dispatched to the defendant’s house in response to a 9-1-1 call and hang-up that the dispatcher had received from the defendant’s address. After ringing the doorbell, St. Onge knocked and announced himself as a police off

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New Hampshire v. Brian Craig

Following a jury trial in Superior Court (Delker, J.), the defendant, Brian Craig, was convicted on one count of criminal threatening, RSA 631:4 (Supp. 2014); one count of witness tampering, RSA 641:5 (2007); and one count of stalking, RSA 633:3-a (Supp. 2014). The convictions were based on a series of messages that he posted on his Facebook profile page in April 2012 that were directed to the vi

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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS v. ADRIAN UNZUETA

The record shows that defendant was charged with burglary and the possession of burglary tools in connection with an incident that occurred on March 16, 2010. ¶ 4 On July 6, 2010, following an Illinois Supreme Court Rule 402 (eff. July 1, 1997) conference, defendant pled guilty to burglary and was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, along with a two-year term of mandatory supervised release (

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State of Tennessee v. Michael Lee Priest

In September 2012, the appellant pled guilty in case number 2012CR136 to aggravated assault, a Class C felony, and received a five-year sentence to be served as one year in confinement and the remainder on supervised probation. On July 26, 2013, a probation violation warrant was filed, alleging that the appellant violated probation by being arrested on July 20, 2013. In September 2013, the Sequa

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David A. McNeal vs. State of Missouri

As mentioned, Movant’s convictions stem from his theft of a drill from an apartment.
Movant acknowledged stealing the drill, but denied entering the apartment with intent to steal, as
charged in the indictment. Rather, he maintains that he did not decide to steal the drill until he
was already in the apartment and saw the drill. He thus contends his conduct was consistent with

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State of North Dakota v. Rodney Brossart

Brossart is a Nelson County landowner and farmer. On June 22, 2011, two of Brossart's adult children observed three cow-calf pairs loose on or near Brossart's property and they determined the cattle did not belong to Brossart. The cattle were secured in a fenced "missile site" Brossart leases. One of Brossart's children told him about the cattle after the cattle were secured.

[¶3] On June

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The State of New Hampshire v. Tyler Boyer

The State appeals an order of the Circuit Court (Rappa, J.) granting the motion of the defendant, Tyler Boyer, to suppress evidence obtained when, without a warrant, the police entered the apartment that he shared with his girlfriend and arrested him. The trial court found that the defendant had standing to object to the search despite the fact that, at the time of the search, he was present wi

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Logan Gatts v. Jan Pritner Real Estate Group, LLC, et al.

Norman, OK - Logan Gatts, John Jerman, Scott Petersen, Lance Miller, Daly Searfos, Alex Fife and Jack Cravens sued Jan Pritner Real Estate Croup, LLC, Halmark Properties Management, LLC, Anita Jan Pritner, Melissa Minnette Stevens and Elizabeth Money on fraud theories claiming:

1. Plaintiffs, Logan Gatts, John Jerman, Scott Petersen, Lance Miller, Daly Searfoss, and Alex Rife ("Tenants")

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State of Vermont v. Atlantic Richfield Company, et al.

This interlocutory appeal requires us to examine the contours of
the “stream-of-commerce” doctrine of personal jurisdiction, which was introduced by the U.S.
Supreme Court in a 1980 decision but later divided the Court with respect to its scope.
Defendant Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA, Inc. (TPRI) challenges a decision of the
superior court, civil division, denying its

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