Defendant obtained bridge loans from investors for his business; however, defendant then used company funds to pay personal expenses. Defendant subsequently filed for bankruptcy when an investor sought judgment on the loans. Where a jury reasonably could find from the ...

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The appellant was convicted of two counts of aggravated stalking of her former husband and son. Where the appellant was aware an order of protection prohibited contact with her former husband and son and that her prior communications with the ...

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Petitioner appealed from the order of the district court affirming the denial of defendant’s application for disability insurance and supplemental security income. Where the administrative law judge’s conclusion regarding petitioner’s residual functional capacity was supported by substantial evidence after ALJ ...

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Petitioner moved for discretionary adjustment of status based on his marriage to a U.S. citizen, after petitioner pleaded guilty to indecent contact with a child. An immigration judge granted the application, crediting petitioner’s evidence as casting doubt upon the underlying ...

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Where a defendant challenged his convictions for sexual exploitation of a child and production of child pornography, the defendant did not show that the government failed to identify the victim and ample evidence connected him to a camera that held ...

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Where a defendant challenged his sentence and convictions for offenses including marijuana distribution, Hobbs Act robbery and using and carrying a firearm, the evidence was sufficient to establish a drug conspiracy, and the judgment is affirmed because the government introduced ...

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Where a man, who was not the biological father of his girlfriend’s child but acted as such from her birth, sought custody or visitation with the child after the mother began to prohibit contact between the two, the man pleaded ...

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Defendant was convicted of possession of controlled substances after police executed a search warrant on her home, finding a glass pipe with methamphetamine residue that witnesses claimed defendant used to smoke methamphetamine the night before. During her interrogation, defendant claimed ...

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Where a defendant, who was convicted of second-degree burglary after she was arrested in the victim’s garage, argued that the state failed to prove that she had the intent to steal because she was not observed removing any items and ...

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Where a defendant in a robbery case challenged the application of a sentencing enhancement for recklessly creating a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury to another person in the course of fleeing from a law enforcement officer, the ...

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Defendant was convicted of conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute and sentenced to a mandatory minimum sentence of 240 months’ imprisonment. At trial, three government witnesses testified that their drug supplier purchased from defendant and his co-conspirator. On appeal, ...

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