Sentencing
Lavelle Chambers, pro se, appeals from an order denying his motion “to void the habitual criminality portion of his sentence.”
Sentence Modification
Lamont Elliot Moore, pro se, appeals a circuit court order denying his claim that a new factor warrants modification of his life sentence.
Motion for Reconsideration
Jeffrey Lee Harris, pro se, appeals an order denying his motion to reconsider an adverse circuit court decision.
Sentence Modification
Rodney J. Hopkins, pro se, appeals from an order of the circuit court that denied his motion seeking sentence modification based on newly discovered evidence.
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Alphonso Hubanks, pro se, appeals the circuit court orders denying his WIS. STAT. § 974.06 (2015-16) motion without a hearing and denying reconsideration.
Sentencing
In 1993, Bruce Brenizer entered guilty pleas to five counts of first-degree intentional homicide. He was subsequently found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect (NGI) on three of the counts.
Sentencing – Voluntary Plea
Julius Lee Sanders appeals from his judgments of conviction on one count of strangulation, contrary to WIS. STAT. § 940.235(1) (2015-16) , one count of felony bail jumping, contrary to WIS. STAT. § 946.49(1)(b), and one count of intimidating a witness, contrary to WIS. STAT. § 940.43(7), stemming from a domestic violence incident with his girlfriend, K.H.
Prosecutorial Misconduct – Sufficiency of Evidence
Richard Klemis was in the business of selling heroin in O’Fallon and Belleville, Illinois, two suburban communities in the Metro East area of greater St. Louis.
Sentencing – 8th Amendment
A jury convicted Steven Waldrip of distributing heroin under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1).
Motion to Suppress
Loni Tepiew entered a conditional guilty plea to one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury after she confessed to beating her toddler son in the head with her fist and shoe.
Sufficiency of Evidence
On May 25, 2016, a jury found Edward James Davis guilty of one count of knowingly transporting and causing to be transported more than 10 images of child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(1), and one count of possession of material which contained an image of child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B).
Sentencing – Voluntary Plea
Appellant Daniel Lockett asks us to decide whether simultaneous possession of two illegal drugs is one crime or two for Double Jeopardy Clause purposes.
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Case Digests
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Double Jeopardy; Sentencing
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Sexual Assault-Prosecutorial Misconduct
- Contract-Negligence
- Criminal Law; Juvenile Law; Discovery
- Family Law; Child Support; Property Division First paragraph(s)
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel- Exclusion of Evidence of Witness Bias
- Postconviction Relief-Sentencing-Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- 14th Amendment – Due Process
- Criminal-Sentencing Guidelines – Enhancement
- Bankruptcy-Tax
- Civil Rights – 14th Amendment-Jury Instructions
- Contract; Foreclosure and Property