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Opinion

Jun 14, 2017

Sentencing

Lavelle Chambers, pro se, appeals from an order denying his motion “to void the habitual criminality portion of his sentence.”

Jun 14, 2017

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.

Jun 14, 2017

Motion for Reconsideration

Jeffrey Lee Harris, pro se, appeals an order denying his motion to reconsider an adverse circuit court decision.

Jun 14, 2017

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.

Jun 14, 2017

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.

Jun 14, 2017

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.

Jun 14, 2017

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.

Jun 13, 2017

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.

Jun 13, 2017

Sentencing – 8th Amendment

A jury convicted Steven Waldrip of distributing heroin under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1).

Jun 13, 2017

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.

Jun 13, 2017

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).

Jun 13, 2017

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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