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Criminal Law - endangering children; circumstantial evidence, sufficient evidence; time of injury determined; caregiver with sole access to child at time of injury; verdict not against manifest weight of evidence; conflicting expert testimony. Jury Instructions - Crim.R. 30 as requiring written copy of jury instructions be given to jury. Appellate Review - exclusion of trial exhibits reviewed under abuse of discretion standard.
...O P I N I O N . Plaintiff-Appellee, :. CASE NO. 2009-T-0091 . - vs - :. JEREMY T. HENDREX, :. ...
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CRIMINAL LAW: manifest weight of the evidence, sufficiency of the evidence, circumstantial evidence, possession, manufacture, controlled substance, ineffective assistance of counsel, probable cause, motion to suppress, motor vehicle, search, methamphetamines.
... : Plaintiff-Appellee, : Case No: 10CA3382 : v. : ...
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Survivors of slaying victims Mike Sisco and his fiancee, Karen Harkness, appeared relieved when Dana L. Chandler, Sisco's ex-wife, was bound over Monday for trial on charges she killed the couple in a hail of bullets in 2002.
When Chief Judge Nancy Parrish announced her decision to bind over Chandler, Cathy Boots, sister of Mike Sisco, squeezed the hand of Hailey Sisco, Mike's daughter.
..."Our family is just glad (the case will) continue through the court and prove what we... were signs of disrespect and showed evidence that a scorned woman had killed a loving woman who...Prosecutors are relying on circumstantial evidence, he said. Case law shows that circumstant...
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One of the issues that arose after the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision in Varnum v. Brien, which held that Iowa’s Constitution would not permit Iowa to limit the institution of marriage to opposite-sex couples, regards how the state should treat different types of same-sex unions from other states. Some of the most interesting and important concerns center around the status Iowa will give to out-of-state civil unions and domestic partnerships, relationships that receive legal recognition but are not true marriages in their states of origin. Since federal law (the Full Faith and Credit Clause and the Federal Defense of Marriage Act) and choice-of-law principles allow Iowa to recognize out-of-state, same-sex relationships, Iowa courts and legislators must now look to statutory l...
... reconciles the philosophies of pre- Varnum case law with the realities of modern, unprecedented is... some intent to be married, there was no evidence that she had accepted “the legal responsibilitie... union or domestic partnership as circumstantial support for their intent to accept the rights and ...
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CRIMINAL LAW - home invasion; complicity to aggravated robbery; complicity to aggravated burglary; complicity to kidnapping; firearm specification; forfeiture; sufficiency of the evidence; manifest weight of the evidence; circumstantial; aiding and abetting; getaway driver. CRIMINAL LAW - EVIDENCE - out of court statement; not hearsay; not offered for truth of the matter asserted; explain act; Evid.R. 403; no confusion; not misleading; no unfair prejudice; no confrontation clause issue.
... CASE NO. 2010-L-145 - vs - :. MICHELL...
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Title VII does not require a disparate treatment plaintiff relying on circumstantial evidence to produce more, or better, evidence to survive summary judgment than a plaintiff who relies on direct evidence, the 9th Circuit has ruled.
An African-American man sued his former employer, alleging race discrimination under Title VII. Both parties moved for summary judgment. The plaintiff provided circumstantial evidence that his white supervisor had excluded him from meetings and demoted him because of his race. The trial court granted the defendants' motion.
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... certified to us on appeal is whether the evidence was sufficient to prove Johnson guilty of first de... of law or if the state court decides a case differently than [the Supreme] Court has on a set ... the Averdicts@ and also noted that circumstantial evidence can be sufficient to convict a defendant ...
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Administrative Local Sales TaxOut-Of-State PurchaseWhere a plaintiff, who bought a boat and related equipment out of state, challenged a decision of the Administrative Hearing Commission requiring him to pay local sales tax on the purchase, the county in this case did not impose a local use tax, and the plaintiff was entitled to a full refund because Missouri's Sales Tax Law is imposed only on sales within the state, and the county's sales tax could only be imposed to the extent and manner of the state sales tax law.Reversed and remanded. Street v. Director of Revenue (MLW No. 63228/Case No. SC91371 - 16 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Breckenridge, J.; Teitelman, C.J., Russell, Fischer, Stith and Price, JJ., and May, Sp. J., concur. Draper, J., not participating) Petition for review...
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Carrying a Concealed Weapon; Constitutional Law, right of confrontation, search and seizure; Evidence, circumstantial, hearsay, present sense impression, sufficiency; Motions, to suppress evidence.
... the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Case No. CR-526276 . BEFORE: Rocco, P.J., Boyle, J....
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Case: 10-40684 Document: 00511658092 Page: 1 Date... of marijuana based on insufficient evidence. Because there was sufficient evidence with which ... the jury is permitted to give to circumstantial evidence. With that in mind, it is important to hi...