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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

Defendant appealed from the trial court’s judgment enforcing a non-compete covenant against defendant. On appeal, defendant argued that the non-compete was overbroad, that his acceptance of a subsequent job superseded his agreement containing the non-compete covenant, and that the non-compete ...

Tagged with: Enforceability Non-Compete

Defendant was convicted of robbery, armed criminal action and felonious restraint. Defendant filed a pro se PCR motion. The motion court appointed a “public defender” to represent defendant and filed an amended PCR motion. The motion court denied the claims ...

Tagged with: Abandonment by Counsel Post-Conviction Relief

Defendant appealed from his conviction of first-degree murder and armed criminal action following defendant’s stabbing of his live-in girlfriend after the victim accused defendant of cheating on her. Where testimony about statements made by the victim’s mother when police arrived ...

Tagged with: confrontation clause First-Degree Murder

Defendant pleaded guilty, in accordance with a plea agreement, to two counts of child molestation and was sentenced to two concurrent 10-year sentences. Defendant unsuccessfully filed a motion for post-conviction relief, alleging that he received ineffective assistance of counsel when ...

Tagged with: child molestation ineffective assistance of counsel