Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility

Subscriber only

Nov 13, 2018

Motion to Suppress – Reconsideration

Nicholas Wegner appeals a judgment of conviction for fifth-offense operating a motor vehicle with a prohibited alcohol concentration (PAC), as well as an order denying his motion seeking reconsideration of a suppression decision.

Nov 13, 2018

Newly Discovered Evidence

David A. Allen appeals the trial court’s judgment convicting him, after a jury trial, of child abuse by recklessly causing great bodily harm, first-degree reckless homicide, and child neglect resulting in great bodily harm.

Nov 13, 2018

Plea & Sentencing – Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

Kenneth Wagner appeals judgments, entered upon his no-contest pleas, convicting him of one count each of first-degree sexual assault of a child under the age of thirteen, child enticement, felony bail jumping, and exposing a child to harmful material.

Nov 13, 2018

Postconviction Motion for Relief Denied

In these consolidated appeals, Elyse Alix appeals multiple judgments, entered upon her no-contest pleas, convicting her of multiple crimes.

Nov 13, 2018

Sentencing Guidelines

Marcel Walton, a “Grand Sheik” of the Moorish Science Temple of America in Chicago, stole more than $3 million from the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) by filing and assisting others in filing fraudulent tax returns.

Nov 13, 2018

Immigration – Removal Proceedings

In February 2016, the Department of Homeland Security commenced removal proceedings against William Yovanni Molina-Avila.

Nov 12, 2018

Sufficiency of Evidence

A jury convicted Jose Jaime Lopez of several drug-related offenses and the district court sentenced him to life in prison.

Nov 12, 2018

Statutory Interpretation – Rule 32(f) – Form of Briefs

This case came to my attention, as motions judge, when the appellees sought permission to file a brief containing more words than the 14,000 permitted by Fed. R. App. P. 32(a)(7) and Circuit Rule 32(c). Jay Vermillion, the appellant, represented that his brief contains fewer than 14,000 words, after excluding the portions not counted by Rule 32(f).

Nov 12, 2018

Exclusionary Rule – Good Faith Exception

In 2015, federal agents infiltrated a child pornography website called Playpen and deployed a computer program to identify Playpen’s users.

Nov 12, 2018

Probable Cause – Judicial Review – Department of Public Instruction

Wisconsin requires public officials to report certain events or suspicions about teachers to the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Nov 12, 2018

Court Error – Abuse of Discretion

After the State of Illinois dismissed criminal charges against plaintiff‐appellant Calvin Lindsey for unlawful possession of a weapon, he filed this civil action asserting claims for false arrest, excessive force, false imprisonment, and malicious prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law assault and battery.

Nov 12, 2018

Plea Withdrawal

At sentencing Tyree M. Neal, Jr. asserted that he was not guilty of conspiring to distribute cocaine because the facts, as he saw them, did not demonstrate that he agreed with others to buy and sell cocaine.

Polls

What kind of stories do you want to read more of?

View Results

Loading ... Loading ...

Legal News

See All Legal News

WLJ People

Sea all WLJ People

Opinion Digests