Defendant assaulted his mother and pregnant girlfriend. He kicked his girlfriend in the abdomen with steel-toed boots. The child was dead when delivered by emergency C-section on the day of the beatings. Following a pre-trial order permitting the State...

Baidoo and Blood-Dzraku married in 2009, but they never resided together. The last address Baidoo has for Blood-Dzraku is an apartment that he vacated in 2011. Baidoo had spoken with Blood-Dzraku by telephone on occasion and he told her that he had no...

Defendant Curtis Ray Taylor and Bay were inmates at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution. Bay was incarcerated for manslaughter. They were assigned to the same dormitory. Defendant was required to walk past Bay's bunk to go anywhere in the unit...

By: Timothy Murray ONE TIME, I WAS REVIEWING THE TERMS OF A PROPOSED contract with an executive for a client that was buying a product for a significant sum of money. The document had been drafted by the seller, and it contained the customary provision...

After receiving several annual installments of their lottery prize, the Latteras sold for a lump sum the right to their remaining payments. The proceeds were reclassified as ordinary income on their income tax return, and a deficiency was assessed. The...

A convicted felon serving a penitentiary sentence was permitted to reside in a privately-operated halfway house. While there, he left the premises of the halfway house, broke and entered the residence of a woman, raped her, and strangled her to death...

Appellant former wife challenged a judgment from the 34th Judicial District Court, St. Bernard Parish (Louisiana), which denied her request for permanent alimony. The former wife and appellee former husband were divorced and the former wife requested...

By: Christopher Henry , Lowenstein Sandler LLP INVESTORS OF MANY DIFFERENT STRIPES ARE EAGER to participate in private equity transactions as equity co-investors alongside private equity sponsors who source, lead, and execute on investment opportunities...

Suspecting that defendant tenant was operating an illegal lottery, police had kept him under surveillance for two months. Thinking that they detected from the outside the sound of an adding machine, they forced their way, without a warrant for search...

Appellant was convicted as charged on the two counts of rape and the single count of attempted rape and sentenced for each conviction of rape, to run concurrently and consecutively with the sentence for the conviction of attempted rape, and appellant...