This week’s Court of Appeals decision list has five decisions, two of them in criminal cases and three in civil cases.
As in last week’s round (the May 5th COA Decisions List), we’re asking folks to read a decision and say something about it in comments. Last week, two cases drew comments. Later, I noted that former Justice Oliver Diaz was posting criminal case summaries for the state office of indigent defense appeals, and those would be available a few days after the decisions. This morning, in the comment thread for last week, I linked his summary for that list (which demonstrated that no other criminal case was worthy of comment than the one I randomly picked to note).
Let us know what you see, folks. If you people don’t start volunteering, I’m going to have to start calling on you individually.
Here’s a repeat of how its done:
If you can, in addition to naming a case you want to mention, it would be handy to post a link. In comments, hyperlinks are typed in the following form, with the phrase [CASE LINK] replaced by a link to the case and [CASE NAME] its name:
<a href=”[CASE LINK]“>[CASE NAME]</a>
The first case from today would look something like this:
<a href=””http://www.mssc.state.ms.us/Images/HDList/..%5COpinions%5CCO55381.pdf”>Whitley v. City of Brandon</a>
Actually, Justice Diaz is writing the updates for the Mississippi Office of Indigent Appeals. The website is http://www.oia.ms.gov.
Slate sheds some light on this issue
http://www.slate.com/id/2218103/
Not much to comment on in this list, NMC. The adverse possession case is a good example of the need to do a thorough elements-to-evidence tree for any hearing.
which one is the adverse possession case, kennebunklegal?
Eugene C. Frazier, et al v. Simon Frazier. et al 2008-00555. Plaintiff went in with essentially no opposition but did not produce evidence on each of the statutory elements. I’ll attempt an actual link the next time I post on one of these cases.
Only took me about four tries, but here it is: Eugene C. Frazier,Et al v. Simon Frazier. Et al;