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On appeal from the trial court’s grant of the petition for adoption filed by the guardians of K.A.F., which effectively terminated father’s parental rights, father argued that his counsel failed to adequately communicate with him prior to trial, failed to ...

Tagged with: ineffective assistance of counsel Termination of Parental Rights

Where a voter challenged an election that authorized the imposition of a sales tax, and the trial court granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss the voter’s petition for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction,  the court erred in dismissing for lack of ...

Tagged with: Election Validity Subject Matter Jurisdiction

Where the Office of Public Counsel challenged the Public Service Commission’s finding that it did not have statutory authority to order the utility to issue refunds of ineligible infrastructure system-replacement surcharges, and a gas utility argued that the commission erred ...

Tagged with: Infrastructure-Replacement Surcharges Replacement Costs Statutory Authority

Where a trial court sought to revoke a defendant’s probation for an October 2015 conviction for felony stealing, the state did not exercise “every reasonable effort” to resolve the probation violations before the probation expired, so a second writ of ...

Tagged with: Probation Revocation “Every Reasonable Effort”

Where a defendant, who was convicted of multiple offenses including involuntary manslaughter arising from a road-rage incident, argued that the trial court erred in accepting the jury verdict as to the unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action ...

Tagged with: Castle Doctrine Lesser-Included Offense Voluntary Manslaughter

Where appellants challenged the entry against them of full orders of protection in favor of a neighbor, the neighbor failed to meet his burden of proof to sufficiently show that the appellants’ actions caused the neighbor alarm as required by ...

Tagged with: Order Of Protection Physical Harm Reasonable Fear

Defendant appealed from his conviction of statutory sodomy and child molestation. On appeal, defendant challenged the trial court’s decision to allow the state to expand the dates charged in each of the counts from the dates charged in the information, ...

Tagged with: Expansion of Dates Charged statutory sodomy

Defendant appealed from his conviction for first-degree felony statutory sodomy. On appeal, defendant argued that the trial court erred when it made statements to two members of the jury identifying defendant and his counsel as the parties who had accused ...

Tagged with: Accusations of Juror Misconduct statutory sodomy

Movant appealed the denial of his Rule 29.15 motion, arguing that the trial court erred in failing to conduct an abandonment inquiry where post-conviction counsel raised a claim that allegedly deprived movant of meaningful review of his claims. Where abandonment ...

Tagged with: Failure to Conduct Abandonment Inquiry Motion to Vacate Set Aside or Correct Sentence

Plaintiff appealed from the dismissal of his claims against defendants. Plaintiff asserted claims of unlawful foreclosure consulting and accessory liability against the defendant attorneys after plaintiff allegedly hired defendants to assist him in preventing the foreclosure of his home. On ...

Tagged with: Claim Preclusion Unlawful Business Services

Defendants appealed the entry of judgment against them as a discovery sanction. Plaintiffs filed suit against defendants for conversion, fraud, civil conspiracy, and breach of fiduciary duty. When defendants filed incomplete responses to plaintiffs’ second discovery requests, the trial court ...

Tagged with: Conversion Judgment as Discovery Sanction