The Court of Appeals affirms defendant’s conviction for voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a family member’s boyfriend who allegedly pulled a gun on defendant when defendant refused to allow the boyfriend to take his six-year-old niece, who had ...

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A trial court was entitled to credit testimony of defendant’s companion that he told her he stole a car from an airport lot and asked her to “ditch” the car, backed up by text messages on her phone, as opposed ...

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The Court of Appeals reverses defendant’s conviction of robbery which the jury handed down in a trial charging defendant not with robbery, but with attempted robbery; the court applies the ends of justice exception to hear this appeal. Defendant admits ...

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Although the trial court found defendant tractor-trailer driver to be a credible witness and acquitted him of felony hit and run in an accident involving another vehicle, the Court of Appeals affirms defendant’s conviction of reckless driving. Witnesses stated defendant’s ...

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Although defendant said he ran into the victim’s home in order to elude police, not to assault her, his actions in remaining inside, punching her and knocking her to the ground and threatening to kill her supported the trial court ...

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Defendant made no effort to seek assistance from the trial court after the trial court clerk indicated the record could not be certified as complete and accurate, and the Court of Appeals says defendant waived his argument that he was ...

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A claimant who suffered from chronic pain syndrome and leg weakness after a large metal desk fell on him at work may be entitled to medical payments for dental treatment needed after several falls in which he damaged his teeth; ...

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The Court of Appeals affirms the multiple traffic convictions of a defendant who fled the scene of a single-car accident after driving on a suspended license and whose breathalyzer reading 30 to 40 minutes after the accident showed a blood ...

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A husband who says wife failed to disclose certain debts cannot overturn their post-nuptial agreement, incorporated into their final divorce decree in 2008; the Court of Appeals upholds the decision sustaining wife’s plea in bar to the husband’s 2012 complaint ...

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A defendant who had been harassing and cursing at his townhouse neighbors and who used a slingshot to shoot ball bearings at their home was using a “deadly weapon” and the Court of Appeals affirms his conviction of unlawfully throwing ...

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