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Circumstantial evidence standards …

Posted on February 21, 2020 by admin

Purvis v. State (Unpublished Memo): Purvis was convicted of possessing 21 rocks of crack cocaine with intent to distribute. Purvis says he didn’t have the cocaine…

Civil Rights

Buzzed Lightyear: To the infinite past and beyond!

Posted on August 5, 2008February 20, 2020 by admin

Crocker v. State (Published): Since 2005, DWIs from as far back as records can be found can be used to enhance the sentence of a new…

Criminal Law

Inconsequentially Ineffective

Posted on May 7, 2008February 21, 2020 by admin

Adair v. State (Unpublished Memo):  Put this one in the “no harm, no foul” category.  Adair was convicted of third degree felony assault of a public…

Case o' the Year Contender

And a sigh of relief went up across the land …

Posted on January 9, 2008February 17, 2020 by admin

Crosby v. Dixon, et al. (Published Memo): Prisoner civil rights suits can be dismissed without a hearing. This is a matter of separating the wheat from the chaff.…

Criminal Law

He should have made me a silk purse …

Posted on January 2, 2008February 21, 2020 by admin

Ex parte McAndrew (Unpublished Memo): McAndrew was convicted of assaulting his ex-wife’s new hubby during a visitation exchange (McAndrew and his ex have a daughter).  McAndrew…

Criminal Law

Insufficiency of the Evidence? Boot to the Head II

Posted on January 1, 2008February 21, 2020 by admin

Wooten v. State (Unpublished Memo): Another of a raft of sufficiency of the evidence cases.  This one is a little different because it’s an appeal from…

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