Michelle Casady
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San Antonio, TX, United States
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Intellectual property, fraud cases among most significant litigation matters in 2022
The NFL, NRA, Blue Bell and IBM were among those businesses battling in Texas courts. → Read More
SEC charges 8 ‘stock-picking gurus’ on Twitter with $100M scam to manipulate share prices
“To their legions of followers on social media, the eight defendants have, for years, promoted themselves as trustworthy stock-picking gurus. In reality, they are seasoned stock manipulators,” the SEC complaint said. “They identify stocks ripe for manipulation, acquire substantial positions in these securities, and then recommend those stocks as good investments… They encourage their followers… → Read More
Did Jim Crane overpay in the Astros deal? Texas Supreme Court to decide if decade-long spat goes trial
Lawyers for Crane told the Texas Supreme Court last week that their client was duped into... → Read More
Man accused of faking kidnapping to party with friends
According to a release from the Hildalgo County Sheriff's Office, Andaverde was with his wife, Maria Hernandez, in their home off F.M. 2812 in rural Northeast Edinburg when about 10:30 p.m. two men wearing masks and toting guns forced their way inside — and made off with Andaverde. A Department of Public Safety helicopter and a dozen deputies were called to assist in the search for Andaverde. A… → Read More
Testimony: Man chuckled while telling friend he killed cop in San Antonio
Mark Anthony Gonzales chuckled after telling a friend he had just shot and killed a cop, the man testified on Thursday, the third day of Gonzales' capital murder trial. → Read More
Pimp defendant to attorney: ‘Don't do me like this, man.’
Dukes explained to the judge he was angry because he had written three additional questions he wanted Cox to ask Leonard Flowers, the former boyfriend of Johnson. → Read More
Capital murder defendant causes more disruptions as trial proceeds
Capital murder defendant causes more disruptions as trial proceeds A capital murder defendant with a history of courtroom outbursts and disruptive behavior continued the trend Thursday and voluntarily left the courtroom after telling the judge he felt he wasn’t getting a fair trial. Glen Leon Dukes, 46, a convicted pimp who currently is serving two life sentences for a trafficking conviction,… → Read More
Murder defendant who slipped out of courthouse, cut GPS monitor arrested
Jose Gutierrez, who delayed his murder trial last month after slipping out of the courthouse and becoming a fugitive, was arrested Monday. → Read More
Man accused of killing pregnant woman found guilty
A jury found Devin Donell Fields, 27, guilty of capital murder today in the July 2013 shooting death of Baby Girl Mshae Harrison, 19, who was 21 weeks pregnant. → Read More
Trial begins for man accused of killing pregnant woman
Devin Donell Fields has pleaded not guilty to the July 4, 2013 capital murder of Baby Girl Mshae Harrison, 19, who was 21 weeks pregnant when she was killed. → Read More
Ex-teacher pleads no contest to sex assault of student
Maris Alexandra Gonzalez, now 24, was arrested on Jan. 20 after a police officer investigating a burglary call in a Northeast Side neighborhood came across Gonzalez and the boy inside a Mazda 3 with foggy windows. Gonzalez, who taught French at both Madison and Churchill high schools, resigned her post and surrendered her teaching certificate on Dec. 9, four days after the Texas Education Agency… → Read More
Former Madison student gets 8 years for bringing guns to school
The teenager who brought loaded guns to Madison High School last year and said he was planning to take hostages if his demands weren’t met will be going to state prison. Later, school district officials imposed a ban on all backpacks that aren’t made of transparent materials. In June, Tarwater pleaded no contest to a third-degree felony of bringing the guns to school and entered into a plea deal… → Read More
Appeals court rejects UIW's motion to dismiss wrongful death lawsuit in Cameron Redus case
A wrongful death lawsuit pending against the University of the Incarnate Word can move forward after the 4th Court of Appeals released an opinion Wednesday denying the university's motion to have it dismissed. → Read More
Police searching for murder defendant who left court, cut GPS monitor
Jury selection in a murder trial was derailed Tuesday morning after the defendant left court, cut off his ankle monitor and went on the lam. → Read More
UTSA kidnapper, rapist gets 3 life sentences
Around 12:45 p.m. Wednesday jurors began deliberating the punishment of a man they convicted of burglary, aggravated kidnapping and two counts of aggravated sexual assault. → Read More
Life sentence for ex-cop convicted of shooting Selma officer
Just before 10 a.m. jurors filed out of the 437th state District Courtroom and into the jury room to begin punishment deliberations in the case of Jessie Hernandez Jr. → Read More
Wife of man who shot cops takes witness stand to recount life of abuse
The wife of a man convicted of shooting a police officer in the face testified today in the punishment phase of his trial. District Attorney Nicholas LaHood, who is personally trying the case alongside prosecutor Jason Goss, told jurors during opening statements in the trial's punishment phase Tuesday that his office plans to seek the maximum sentence. → Read More
Former cop guilty in shooting of Selma police officer
Since about noon jurors have been deliberating in the trial of a former cop accused of shooting two officers who responded to a domestic disturbance call at his home in September 2013. → Read More
Man found guilty in attempted murder
Police dubbed the crime a “road rage” shooting at the time, after witnesses reported Suarez opened fire on Gonzales after Gonzales yelled at him for speeding on a residential street. Suarez' defense attorneys had claimed their client fired in self-defense and was in fear for his life during the confrontation that left Gonzales with a bullet wound to the head and two more to the abdomen. → Read More
San Antonio man sentenced to life in prison for crash that killed family of 4
State District Judge Sid Harle sentenced a man who was found guilty by jurors earlier this month of causing a crash that killed four members of a family of five to life in prison Thursday morning. → Read More