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DSG Evergreen Family Limited Partnership appeals from an order of the Dane County Circuit Court dismissing DSG’s claims against the Town of Perry.

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Patricia Ann Murphy and Patricia Gaffney appeal a judgment of foreclosure.

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The Lamar Company appeals a judgment awarding it compensation for property taken by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation through condemnation but denying it litigation expenses.

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Sadiq Imani appeals from a judgment of conviction, entered on a jury verdict, for armed robbery by use of force and false imprisonment, both as party to a crime.

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Jason Baars appeals a summary judgment granted in favor of James Weber.

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Zachary Williams appeals from a judgment convicting him of armed robbery as party to a crime and from an order denying his motion for postconviction relief.

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After a bench trial, Anthony Lee was convicted of kidnapping and rape.

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Before us in this appeal is a tax shelter almost identical to the one we agreed reflected an abusive sham in Superior Trading, LLC v. Commissioner, 728 F.3d 676 (7th Cir. 2013).

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After pleading guilty to preparing false tax returns for her clients, 26 U.S.C. §7206(2), Evelyn Johnson was sentenced to 18 months in prison, to be followed by one year’s supervised release.

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Concerned that the getaway driver to his armed robbery would provide information to the police, Matthew Higgins-Vogt shot the driver multiple times in a wooded area near the Sangamon River in Decatur, Illinois.

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Ralph Ross worked as a coal miner for approximately thirty years.

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Scott Schmidt shot and killed his estranged wife.

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Patrick Dockery was arrested after a domestic dispute at his girlfriend’s apartment in Joliet, Illinois.

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For 25 years Gary Wrolstad worked at CUNA Mutual Life Insurance Society in Madison, Wisconsin, eventually becoming a financial reporting manager.

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In 2002, thirty-six-year-old Vicki Bramlett died from complications following routine surgery.

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Okoi Ofem committed suicide in a jail cell at a City of Chicago lockup.

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Weekly Case Digests – January 4, 2019 – January 11, 2019

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The Armed Career Criminal Act requires a federal sentencing judge to impose upon certain persons convicted of unlawfully possessing a firearm a 15-year minimum prison term.

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Attorney Daniel Parks has appealed a report filed by Referee William Eich concluding that Attorney Parks committed eight of 14 alleged counts of professional misconduct and recommending that Attorney Parks' license to practice law in Wisconsin be suspended for 14 months, rather than the two-year suspension sought by the Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR).

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Ray Peterson filed this small-claims action in which he (1) alleged that Stanley Beatty, doing business as Abner Boiler and Heating Company, was responsible for the failure of a boiler approximately one year after Beatty installed the boiler, and (2) sought reimbursement of the cost to replace that boiler.

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Kristy Malnory appeals a judgment of conviction following a jury trial for operating a motor vehicle with a prohibited alcohol concentration (PAC), second offense, contrary to WIS. STAT. § 346.63(1)(b), and an order denying her postconviction motion for a new trial on the ground of ineffective assistance of counsel.

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Mariano Cabrera appeals his judgments of conviction and an order denying his postconviction motion for resentencing in these consolidated appeals.

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A.A. appeals from an order extending his involuntary commitment, asserting his original commitment had already expired by the time of the extension, thus depriving the circuit court of competency to make the extension.

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Jason D. Barnhill appeals from a judgment of conviction and an order denying his motion for sentence modification.

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Shawn A. Hodgkins appeals from a judgment of conviction and an order denying his postconviction motion, arguing that the judgment should be amended to stay the collection of court costs until his probation begins and that his prison sentence should be reduced in light of the victim’s postsentencing letter requesting a reduced sentence to allow Hodgkins to help parent their child.

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Troy Paulson, pro se, appeals an order dismissing his lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

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William J. Smith appeals his judgment of conviction entered pursuant to his guilty pleas for possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of THC as a second and subsequent offense.

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Jose A. Reas-Mendez appeals an order denying his 2017 postconviction motion for DNA testing of a jacket, a kitchen knife, and latent fingerprint cards containing fingerprints lifted from the outside window of the victim’s apartment.

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This case is before us for a second time. On June 16, 2011, Joan Kelly and her dog were attacked and seriously injured by a pit bull owned by Amanda Berg and Adam Finkler.

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He also appeals an order denying postconviction relief. The issue on appeal is whether the State’s prosecution of Schultz for sexually assaulting a child “on or about October 19, 2012” violated Schultz’s constitutional right to be free from double jeopardy because he was previously prosecuted for, and acquitted of, the repeated sexual assault of the same child “in the late summer to early fall of 2012.”

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