The Court of Appeals reverses defendant’s convictions for credit card fraud; the trial court erred in admitting into evidence hearsay evidence of bank card transactions, offered for the truth of the assertion and not admissible under any recognized exception to ...

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Testimony by a police officer that he informed defendant a supermarket manager had barred defendant from the store premises was inadmissible hearsay on the point of whether defendant had been informed of the ban by authorized personnel, and the Court ...

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A 29-year-old man who was the only adult present in the house when he had sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl who was staying in the house with a friend of her mother while her mother was away, was in ...

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A defendant who previously had worked for ColorTyme rental store and who provided a “wrong” telephone number and had “moved” from the address he provided when ColorTyme employees arrived to pick up a television defendant rented and failed to make ...

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The Court of Appeals reverses a special education teacher’s assault and battery conviction for grabbing an 11-year-old special needs student’s wrists and pulling her toward a school bus stop to retrieve a coat; the trial court erred in interpreting a ...

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A defendant who was stopped for driving on a revoked license and consented to search of his truck cannot credibly disclaim he was unaware of the methamphetamine hidden below a towel wrapped around the base of the gear shift; based ...

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The Court of Appeals reverses revocation of defendant’s previously suspended sentences for 2004 convictions of robbery and malicious wounding, based on the trial court’s violation of his due process rights by admitting hearsay evidence through the testimony of a probation ...

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The testimony of defendant, a retired police officer of 25 years, that he grabbed his gun and shot at his wife to scare her away after thrust a knife at him, provided more than a scintilla of evidence to support ...

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Although defendant insisted he was not driving the SUV when rescue squad staff found him alone upside down in the overturned vehicle with one leg wrapped around the steering wheel, the trial court was entitled to reject his credibility and ...

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A 35-year-old defendant who admitted to Facebook messages telling a 14-year-old girl he loved her, and her testimony that they had sexual relations and she became pregnant and had an abortion, supported defendant’s convictions of two counts of carnal knowledge, ...

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