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Claimant appealed from the denial of his workers’ compensation claim, challenging the compensation judge’s credibility determinations and weight of the evidence. The administrative law judge expressly found that claimant was not a credible witness and that his medical expert was ...

Tagged with: Weight of the Evidence Workers’ Compensation

Defendant appealed from the order of protection, arguing that there was insufficient evidence to support the trial court’s finding that defendant’s conduct constituted stalking or harassment and that the trial court failed to consider the harm to defendant from the ...

Tagged with: Order Of Protection Sufficiency of Evidence of Predicate Acts

Defendant appealed from the denial of his motion to set aside his convictions for robbery and armed criminal action. Defendant alleged ineffective assistance of plea counsel in failing to act as intermediary in plea negotiations and in representing defendant under ...

Tagged with: Ineffective Assistance of Plea Counsel robbery

Defendant appealed from his conviction for second-degree domestic assault and his 12-year sentence as a persistent assault offender. The state conceded that defendant’s sentence was in error. Where one of defendant’s assault convictions was entered a week after the present ...

Tagged with: domestic assault Persistent Assault Offender

Mother appealed from the termination of her parental rights to her child A.R.F., on grounds of neglect, failure to rectify and parental unfitness. The trial court found that termination was in the child’s best interest. On appeal, mother argued that ...

Tagged with: Likelihood of Future Harm

Wife appealed from the trial court’s dissolution judgment as to the parenting plan, maintenance award, equitable distribution and award of attorney fees in favor of husband. Where wife’s brief failed to comply with the requirements of Rule 84.04, wife failed ...

Tagged with: Equitable Distribution and Maintenance Award Parenting Plan

Defendant pleaded guilty to statutory rape and statutory sodomy of a single victim. After the trial court heard evidence about an alleged second victim, defendant moved for post-conviction relief, arguing that plea counsel was ineffective for guaranteeing that evidence about ...

Tagged with: Ineffective Assistance of Plea Counsel statutory rape

Defendant appealed from his conviction of charges of sexual abuse. On appeal, defendant challenged the denial of his oral motion for a continuance made on the first day of trial, after the court had denied a prior continuance motion because ...

Tagged with: Denial Of Continuance sexual abuse

Defendant appealed from his conviction for criminally negligent DWI. Defendant presented no evidence or testimony at trial, and the jury returned a verdict in six minutes. On appeal, the court found defendant’s brief woefully deficient in its compliance with Rule ...

Tagged with: Criminally Negligent DWI Sufficiency Of Evidence

Defendant appealed from his convictions for various sexual abuse crimes against two victims. Defendant argued that the trial court erred in precluding evidence that the victims had been abused by someone other than defendant and erred in denying his motion ...

Tagged with: Age of Child Victim child molestation

Plaintiff filed a negligence action against defendant insurers on a claim of negligence, alleging that they negligently hired a contractor to remediate a leak in plaintiff’s home that subsequently caused plaintiff to become ill. The trial court granted summary judgment ...

Tagged with: Insurers’ Duty Independent of Policy Negligence