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Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Mar 17, 2015

An employee injured his knee while stepping off of a pallet. The trial court found that the injury was idiopathic and denied the employee’s claim for workers’ compensation benefits. The employee appealed. We reverse the trial court’s judgment.

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Mar 17, 2015

The employee was injured in a motor vehicle accident while driving from doing a personal task in Alabama to a meeting for his employer in Mississippi. The employer denied his workers’ compensation claim, so the employee filed this lawsuit. The trial court awarded benefits based on a finding that the claimant was a “traveling employee.” Its holding also implied, in the alternative, that the employee was on a “special errand” for the employer. The employer has appealed.

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Mar 17, 2015

The defendant, William Kenneth Lawson, appeals the revocation of his probationary sentence. He pled guilty to possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and violation of his habitual traffic offender status. As a result, he was sentenced to an effective term of eight years on supervised probation. Subsequently, a violation warrant was issued alleging that the defendant had violated the terms and conditions of his probation agreement by being arrested on new charges.

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Mar 17, 2015

The Defendant-Appellant, Marcus Traveno Cox, Jr., was indicted by a Marshall County Grand Jury for one count of solicitaion of aggravated perjury and one count of improper influence of a juror, Class A misdemeanors. Cox entered an open plea of guilty to solicitation of aggravated perjury, and count two was dismissed. After a sentencing hearing, the trial court imposed the maximum sentence of 11 months and 29 days in the county jail, to be served consecutively to his sentences in another case. The sole issue presented for our review is whether the trial court erred in sentencing Cox.

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Mar 17, 2015

Defendant, James Bristow, was charged by indictment with vehicular homicide by intoxication, vehicular homicide by recklessness, driving under the influence of an intoxicant (DUI), and DUI per se. Defendant pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide by intoxication with an agreed nine-year sentence, and the manner of service to be determined by the trial court. The remaining counts were dismissed in accordance with the agreement. After a sentencing hearing, the trial court ordered Defendant to serve his nine-year sentence in confinement.

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Mar 17, 2015

In this post-divorce action, Mother appealed from the trial court’s decision to change the designation of primary residential parent to Father. After an evidentiary hearing, the trial court found that a material change in circumstances had occurred based on the child’s recent athletic development and its impact on his social development. The trial court also found that making Father the primary residential parent was in the best interests of the child.

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Mar 17, 2015

This is a termination of parental rights appeal brought by the father. The trial court found clear and convincing evidence to support termination of the father’s parental rights on the statutory grounds of abandonment for failure to remit child support and failure to comply with the permanency plans. The court also found that termination of the father’s parental rights was in the best interest of the children. The father appeals. We affirm.

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Mar 16, 2015
Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Mar 16, 2015

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