Cases

BECKWITH, Associate Judge: Following a stipulated trial, appellant Devon Sharp was found guilty of possession of marijuana, 1 cocaine, 2 and drug paraphernalia 3 and attempted possession of a

463 F.Supp.2d 556 (2006) UNITED STATES of America v. Jeremy SHARP, Defendant. No. CRIM.A.3:06CR182. United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Richmond Division. November 22, 2006. *557 Charles E. James, Jr., U.S. Attorney, Richmond, VA, for United States of America. MEMORANDUM OPINION DOHNAL, Uni

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit denied.

OPINION HALL, Bankruptcy Judge. The bankruptcy trustee seeks reversal by this Court of a bankruptcy court decision allowing the debtor to exempt certain personal property under Colorado’s “tools of trade” exemption. The trustee objected to the claimed exemption on the ground that the debtor’s business was not a “gainful occupation,” as required by the exemption statute, because it was not “profitable” as of

MEMORANDUM OPINION A. Benjamin Goldgar, United States Bankruptcy Judge Before the court for ruling is the motion of defendant Angelique M. Sharp (“Sharp”) to dismiss the four-count adversary complaint of plaintiff Landmark Credit Union (“Landmark”). The complaint alleges that Sharp fraudulently induced Landmark to make a car loan, never made a payment on the loan, and then hid the car in another state when L

In The Court of Appeals Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo ________________________ No. 07-19-00227-CR ________________________ EDGAR LANE SHARP, JR., APPELLANT V.

OPINION SILER, Circuit Judge. Defendant James Williams pled guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). At sentencing, the district court granted Williams a downward departure from the Guidelines range, imposing a sentence of 24 months. The United States appeals the downward departure. We AFFIRM.

OPINION CLAY, Circuit Judge. Defendant, Bernard H. Ellis, Jr., appeals the district court’s denial of a motion to withdraw his guilty plea. Defendant was convicted of manufacturing and possessing with intent to manufacture in excess of one hundred marijuana plants, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), pursuant to a guilty plea, on November 12, 2003, an

SULLIVAN, Chief Judge (concurring in the result): The majority opinion overlooks a significant constitutional issue raised by the Supreme Court decision in Crosby v. United States, — U.S. —, 113 S.Ct. 748, 122 L.Ed.2d 25 (1993). There, the Supreme Court reversed a defendant’s conviction because his absence from trial began before, not “after the trial has commenced” as required by Fed.R.Crim.P. 43

Notice: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the Atlantic and Maryland Reporters. Users are requested to notify the Clerk of the Court of any formal errors so that corrections may be made before the bound volumes go to press. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS No. 24-CO-0255 BERNARD BRYANT, JR., APPELLANT, V. UNITED STATES

RUCKER, Justice. In a companion case today we remanded to the trial court for further proceedings the sentences imposed on felony murder convictions of two teenage co-defendants— sixteen-year-old Blake Layman and seventeen-year-old Levi Sparks. See Layman v. State, No. 20S04-1509-548, 42 N.E.3d 972, 2015 WL 5474389 (Ind.2015). For the same reasons explored in

Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge DYK. Dissenting opinion filed by Circuit Judge PLAGER. DYK, Circuit Judge. Sharp Electronics Corporation (“Sharp”), a federal supply contractor, submitted a termination compensation claim to the Department of the Army contracting officer (“CO”), and thereafter brought a Contracts Dispute Act (“CDA”) claim before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (

United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit ___________________________ No. 24-2134 ___________________________ United States of America Plaintiff - Appellee v. Wilbur Morrison, Jr.

DECISION KASTL, Senior Judge: Citing United States v. Kinman, 25 M.J. 99 (C.M.A.1987), the appellant argues that it was prejudicial error for the military judge to fail to state affirmatively that he would disregard inadmissible allusions to cocaine use and distribution during his deliberations on sentence. We find no error and affirm. Consonant with his pleas, the appellant w

FILED United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit April 28, 2014 PUBLISH Elisabeth A. Shumaker Clerk of Court UNITE

OPINION Goldberg, Judge: This matter is before the Court following trial de novo. In this action, Merck, Sharp & Dohme International (“Merck”) claims that the United States Customs Service (“Customs”) improperly appraised Indocin SR (“Indocin”), a drug which Merck imported from an affiliated corporation in Holland. More specifically, Merck claims that Customs improperly appraised the val

PER CURIAM: The government’s appeal from the sentence imposed on Douglas Sharp requires us to determine whether a district court may justify a sentence below the minimum established by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 by relying upon mitigating circumstances sufficient to justify a sentence below the minimum established by the United States Sentencing Guidelines. We hold that it

RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit I.O.P. 32.1(b) File Name: 21a0285p.06 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ┐ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, │ Plaintiff-Ap

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MAHONEY, Circuit Judge: Defendant-appellant Leroy Johnson, Jr. appeals from a judgment of conviction entered April 24, 1993 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, Howard G. Munson, Judge, after a four-day jury trial. Johnson had been charged by indictment with two counts of threatening to kill then-President Bush in violatio