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Kendrick Deavane Alexander appeals from a judgment of conviction for two counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety by use of a dangerous weapon and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

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Ruben Porraz was the leader of a Chicago chapter of the Latin Kings gang for about four years.

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Trials often require jurors, as laypeople considering evidence, to draw inferences based on their life experiences.

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Chapter 13 bankruptcy is a promise to a debtor: if you comply with the bankruptcy plan, then you can get a fresh start.

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The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that state actors have, at a minimum, a rational basis for treating similarly situated people differently.

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While arresting gang members in Centralia, Illinois, police officer Michael Peebles felt intimidated when Shirlena Barnes, a city resident with gang connections, drove up and yelled derogatory epithets.

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While shopping at a Wal-Mart store, Linda Waldon believes she slipped on a plastic hanger and fell causing her injuries.

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In the late summer and fall of 2014, multiple pharmacies in Indianapolis were robbed at gun point.

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Carleous Clay challenges his within-guidelines life sentence as unreasonable.

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Weekly Case Digests – December 23, 2019 – December 27, 2019

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We review Referee Kim M. Peterson's report and recommendation that the court declare Attorney Ricardo Perez in default and suspend his license to practice law in Wisconsin for a period of nine months for professional misconduct in connection with his representation of four clients.

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J.M.A. appeals an order extending his involuntary commitment.

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William Hughes appeals an order of the circuit court dismissing Hughes’ small claims action against Hughes’ insurer, Allstate Indemnity Company

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Michael Greenwald appeals a judgment of conviction for felony bail jumping, forgery, uttering a forgery, identity theft, and other crimes.

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Jae Robinson appeals a judgment of conviction for first-degree intentional homicide and for substantial battery as party to a crime.

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Danielle Melby appeals a judgment of conviction for homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle.

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Sharon Haynes appeals pro se from a circuit court order that upheld the Labor and Industry Review Commission’s decision rejecting Haynes’s discrimination claim against Blain’s Farm & Fleet.

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Nancy Marquardt appeals the order of the circuit court in this landlord-tenant small claims dispute.

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The State appeals a circuit court order suppressing blood draw evidence.

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M.W.P., E.W.P.’s biological father, appeals from an order of the circuit court terminating his parental rights to E.W.P. For the following reasons.

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Anushree Mehrotra and Himanshu Sharma (collectively, the Sharmas) appeal from an order granting summary judgment to Robert Krecak.

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Z.J. appeals the orders terminating her parental rights to her four biological children.

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A.L.M. appeals the orders terminating his parental rights to three of his children, S.-L.E.M., S.M.M., and D.G-H. A.L.M. contends that there was insufficient evidence for the circuit court to determine that termination was in the children’s best interests and that the circuit court erroneously exercised its discretion in terminating his parental rights.

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This case concerns an insurance coverage dispute regarding three excess liability insurance policies issued to Superior Water, Light and Power Company (Superior Water) in 1970 by a host of insurance companies (collectively, the London Market Insurers (LMI)).

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Brian Fisher appeals a circuit court decision on certiorari review, affirming a Wisconsin Department of Hearings and Appeals’ (the Department) decision affirming an administrative law judge’s (ALJ) decision revoking Fisher’s extended supervision.

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Eagle Cove Camp & Conference Center, Inc., and Arthur, Wesley, and Randall Jaros, as trustees of various family trusts (collectively, “Eagle Cove”), appeal an order dismissing their claims asserting various violations of their rights under the Wisconsin Constitution.

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Joseph Pamonicutt appeals a judgment, entered upon a jury’s verdict, convicting him of one count of aggravated battery and one count of burglary of a building or dwelling, both counts as a party to the crime.

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Appellant Adrian Grisanti was convicted of child-pornography offenses and destruction of evidence.

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Defendant Signode Industrial Group LLC assumed an obligation to pay health-care benefits to a group of retired steelworkers and their families.

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On January 23, 2018, the Government filed a single-count indictment against Jeremy Glispie for being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g).

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