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Where the family of a man who died from asbestosis sued the manufacturer of asbestos-containing boilers, which the man inspected as part of his job, the summary judgment record presented a genuine dispute to be decided by a jury as ...

Tagged with: Causation Exposure to Asbestos

Where a defendant, who was found guilty of charges including second-degree murder, argued that the trial court clearly erred in denying his motion to suppress statements that he made to police, the statements were not incriminating, and the case was ...

Tagged with: Defendant’s Statements Motion To Suppress Warrantless Search

Where a defendant challenged a judgment entered against him following a jury verdict convicting him of second-degree involuntary manslaughter, the trial court did not err in allowing the jury to use a transcript of a dash-camera video, and the court ...

Tagged with: Batson challenge Involuntary Manslaughter Video Transcript

Where a defendant argued that her plea counsel was ineffective for advising her to enter an Alford plea without considering her competence and for failing to investigate and raise a defense of not guilty by reason of insanity, the defendant ...

Tagged with: Alford plea Competence effectiveness of counsel

Where a defendant in a first-degree murder case challenged the exclusion of evidence that others had motives to kill the victim, the defendant did not present any evidence that would directly connect another individual to the shooting, so the trial ...

Tagged with: First-Degree Murder Inadmissible Testimony Motive Evidence

Where a defendant challenged the denial of his motion for a new trial, arguing that the trial court had authority to hear his ineffective-assistance claim, the claim was not timely raised before the court, so the court did not err ...

Tagged with: Ineffective Assistance Resisting Arrest Sufficiency Of Evidence

Plaintiff appealed from the denial of his application for temporary total disability benefits after he suffered a work-related injury to his arm. The commission denied benefits on grounds that plaintiff had been terminated for post-injury misconduct for failing to call ...

Tagged with: Temporary Total Disability Benefits Termination for Post-Injury Misconduct

Defendant appealed from the judgment entered for plaintiff in her employment disability discrimination suit under the MHRA. On appeal, defendant challenged the sufficiency of evidence that plaintiff suffered from a disability or that she was discriminated against under the MHRA ...

Tagged with: disability discrimination Evidence of Disability

Where a defendant challenged the denial of post-conviction relief without an evidentiary hearing, the motion court did not err in denying the claim that his guilty plea lacked sufficient factual basis because the state’s recitation of the facts and the ...

Tagged with: effectiveness of counsel Guilty Plea Post-Conviction Relief

Defendant appealed from his conviction for murder and related offenses. On appeal, defendant challenged the sufficiency of evidence, argued that the trial court abused its discretion in sentencing him to life without parole where he presented evidence of his underdeveloped ...

Tagged with: Failure to Challenge Sufficiency of Evidence murder

Where appellant challenged the grant of a full order of protection for a minor child, the evidence was insufficient to support the order based on stalking because the child’s guardian failed to present evidence of physical harm or the threat ...

Tagged with: Order Of Protection Stalking Sufficiency Of Evidence