DELIBERATE HOMICIDE ACCOUNTABILITY: Claim of ineffective assistance for not requesting accomplice instruction more amenable to postconviction… Defendant’s statement from 4 years earlier that he would like to kill victim properly admitted… Prosecutor’s comments on [Read more…]
Archives for 2009
Sexual assault, sentencing, ineffective assistance
SEXUAL ASSAULT: Defendant not sentenced on materially inaccurate information following corrected PSI as to number of felonies… ineffective assistance claims as to sentencing, direct appeal, postconviction counsel rejected… Haynes affirmed. [Read more…]
Incest, juror disqualification, other incest
INCEST: Panelist properly not excused for cause, Judge’s questioning was clarification, not improper rehabilitation … notice of other acts of incest properly relied primarily on transaction rule and alternatively on Just as matter of caution… 4 incest life sentences improperly imposed [Read more…]
Incest, common law marriage, refusal to admit
INCEST: Sufficient evidence of common law marriage to support incest of “stepdaughter”… objection to undisclosed testimony untimely, waived… no parole until sex treatment within sentencing authority… limited contact with victim and her family reasonable probation condition, [Read more…]
DUI, odd angle parking in bar lot, erratic driving
DUI: Sufficient particularized suspicion by odd angle of parking in bar lot, erratic driving… City officer had authority to stop outside city limits, sufficient probable cause for arrest… notice to appear & complaint in Municipal Court properly elected by officer over charge in District Court, [Read more…]
DUI/youth, counsel waiver without parent consent
DUI/YOUTH: City Judge’s records provide evidence that youth waived right to counsel in predicate DUI… counsel properly waived without parent consent since YCA not applicable to DUI… felony DUI properly not reduced to misdemeanor… Honzel affirmed. [Read more…]
Plea withdrawal, lesser-included assault
PLEA WITHDRAWAL: Not necessary to analyze lack of specificity as to lesser-includeds when no basis for misdemeanor assault in aggravated assault case given injuries and admissions… plea withdrawal properly denied… Macek affirmed. [Read more…]
Plea withdrawal, Alford, postconviction withdrawal
PLEA WITHDRAWAL: Alford plea to felony robbery entered voluntarily, Defendant not allowed to withdraw it in postconviction proceeding… Harkin affirmed. [Read more…]
$7,490,000 verdict, 18 Plaintiffs, CO exposure
VERDICT: $7,490,000, 18 Plaintiffs, CO exposure, brain, defective heating system, 70% negligence by manufacturer, 30% negligence by settled installer. [Read more…]
Defense verdict, sex discrimination, professor
DEFENSE VERDICT: Sex discrimination/equal pay, university professor.
Alexandra Vinogradov joined the MSU Dept. of Industrial & Mechanical Engineering in 1991 as an associate professor. She was the only woman in the department. She was granted tenure 5 years later. In 1997 she applied for promotion to full professor, but was not promoted until 1999. She sued [Read more…]
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