A 57-year-old Gillette man serving life in prison for sexually abusing a 7-year-old boy claimed his jury convicted him because he’s a pedophile, not for actually committing an act of sexual abuse.
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Although state corrections officials recommended a 22-year-old Riverton man who reportedly coerced a 5-year-old girl into oral sex be released from prison, the Wyoming Supreme Court ruled to keep him in prison.
Abortion remains legal in Wyoming as challenge to state’s trigger ban law sent back to Teton County court.
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The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled a 37-year-old Campbell County man can seek a new trial on two of his third-degree sexual abuse convictions because of vague jury instruction.
A man convicted of second-degree murder for mercy-killing his best friend can receive a new trial, after the Wyoming Supreme Court determined much of the man’s confession invalid.
The Wyoming Supreme Court has affirmed the state had a right to take children from a homeless Cheyenne man, who planned to fight allegations he’s an unfit father, but then failed to show up to court to present his case.
The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled that an underwear-clad Albany County man who shot a drunk and stoned Colorado tourist in a Wyoming campground should get a new trial because the lower court did not instruct the jury on the castle doctrine.
The Wyoming Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a construction worker can’t sue a colleague that ran him over with a cement truck. The court said the accident was not on purpose.
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A lawsuit challenging Wyoming’s anti-abortion law is headed to the state Supreme Court – and two lawmakers who sought to join the case have been denied.
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A Riverton couple who were denied access to medical data from the hours between their son’s birth and his cerebral palsy diagnosis now have a second chance to learn more from the hospital as the Wyoming Supreme Court ruled that the family’s case is valid.
The Wyoming Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the argument that the judge wouldn’t hear testimony that the girl had slept with a grown man before, the parents condoned the pair’s sexual relationship and the parents extorted money from the man after learning of the relationship.
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A man who shot his lover’s husband in the chest in Cheyenne five years ago after leaving his wife and kids behind in Nebraska may not have his prison sentence shortened, the Wyoming Supreme Court has ruled.
A man serving 70 years to life in prison for severely disfiguring, killing, then raping his mother-in-law in front of her daughter in 2019 does not get a new trial, the Wyoming Supreme Court has ruled.
A Wyoming woman who was convicted of vehicular homicide after colliding head-on with a Pinedale man while driving under the influence on New Year’s Day in 2021 had her sentence overturned by the Wyoming Supreme Court on Monday.
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The court rejected the argument that a police officer should not have been allowed to describe gasoline as an accelerant, a substance that will speed the spread of a fire, because he was not an expert on the subject.
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The Wyoming Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a Torrington who admitted to trying to strangle his girlfriend. The man said there was no factual basis for his conviction. However, the court said his admitting to the crime was factual enough.
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Police officers can stop a vehicle as part of an investigation into drug trafficking based on information they obtain from other officers, Wyoming’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
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The Wyoming Supreme Court on Monday ruled against a man convicted of having sex with his 15-year-old cousin in a Walmart bathroom in Sheridan.
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The drunk driving conviction of a Sundance woman must be overturned because a Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper improperly entered the woman’s home without permission, Wyoming’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
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The Wyoming Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a former Casper gynecologist’s claim of juror misconduct in a trial where he was convicted of sexually abusing patients, new court filings showed.
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The conviction of a Natrona County man who repeatedly sexually assaulted women and then threatened their lives was upheld Wednesday by the Wyoming Supreme Court.
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The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a man whose trial on drug charges was overseen by a judge who had earlier defended him against drug charges is not entitled to a new judge in his case
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A 17-year-old man who was charged with third degree sexual assault a year after the incident when he was 18 is asking the Wyoming Supreme Court if he can have the case dismissed.
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A man who rejected his attorney’s initial advice to plead “not guilty by reason of mental illness” to a criminal charge cannot later claim his attorney was not effective, Wyoming’s Supreme Court has ruled.
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A member of the Forbes family has lost his challenge of the way his brother and sisters valued shares in a Sheridan County ranch he gave to his stepsons.
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The Wyoming Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a man arrested near Cheyenne with 42 pounds of marijuana because the trooper was driving more than 100mph.
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The Wyoming Supreme Court said a man who claimed he didn’t have marijuana when he was captured by police with marijuana was the one who had to prove it.
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The Wyoming Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a Jackson resident and congressional candidate Casey Hardison does not have a fundamental right to distribute marijuana.
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The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the rights of parents to raise their children as they see fit must be taken into consideration when grandparents ask courts to issue visitation orders for their grandchildren
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A mother seeking to change the name of her child to match that of her new husband failed to prove the change would be in the child’s best interest, Wyoming’s Supreme Court has ruled.
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The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled a Sweetwater County man must pay the medical bills of the man he was convicted of stabbing during a drug deal.
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The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled that an Afton teacher who had nude photos of his girlfriend and him on a school district iPad should not have been fired.
A man convicted of attempted first-degree murder for shooting a Wyoming Highway Patrol officer in 1985 has lost his third attempt to overturn his conviction and life sentence.
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Three members of the court voted only to suspend the license of Becket Hinckley for three years, while two others argued that Hinckley should be barred from practicing law completely.
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A Casper man sentenced to life in prison for murdering his mother was improperly sentenced to another 10 to 15 years in the burglary that led to the killing, Wyoming’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
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The Wyo Supreme Court ruled that City of Lander is not immune from a lawsuit because a police officer lost a bat which bit a family.
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A man’s conviction on a charge of aggravated assault and battery must be overturned because testimony another dispute with his wife should not have been heard at his trial, Wyoming’s Supreme Court has ruled.
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A lawsuit filed by the grandson of Walt Disney over the disposition of land in Teton County should be decided in California, Wyoming’s Supreme Court has ruled.
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A dispute over a divorce decree that reached Wyoming’s Supreme Court has been settled in the husband’s favor.
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The Wyoming Supreme Court rejected an appeal by a Green River man who said he had a bad lawyer who gave him bad advice.
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The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled that Sweetwater County School District was not responsible for a student who suffered a brain injury after slipping on ice at a Rock Springs elementary school.
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The Wyo Supreme Court ruled against a driver who argued that Carbon County should have paid for an independent blood alcohol test.
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A teenager who planned to kill nine people at a Gillette middle school was correctly tried as an adult, Wyoming’s Supreme Court ruled Monday.
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A jury that convicted a man of chasing another man with a knife correctly discarded his arguments of self-defense, Wyoming’s Supreme Court has ruled.
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Wyoming’s Supreme Court has upheld the forgery conviction of a woman who signed a notary’s name eight times on documents necessary to withdraw money from a retirement account.
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The first-degree murder conviction of a Fort Laramie man accused of stabbing another man to death has been upheld by Wyoming’s Supreme Court.
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A woman who claimed she punched herself in the face, banged her head on the wall, and scratched skin off of her face as part of a religious ritual was properly hospitalized for the treatment of mental illness, Wyoming’s Supreme Court has ruled.
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A Cheyenne man is challenging a Wyoming law that gives veterans a discount on their property taxes, saying it improperly limits the benefit to people who have been state residents for at least three years.
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A woman convicted of helping a man try to kill police officers while the two led police on a high-speed chase through Cheyenne has lost her appeal of her conviction.
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A man convicted of strangling his girlfriend and stabbing her with a pen was properly denied the opportunity to plead guilty to some of the charges against him, Wyoming’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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Childers, who was also convicted on two counts of attempted second-degree murder, argued he did not intentionally run into a flower planter so he should not have been convicted.
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Wyoming’s court system needs to adopt specific timelines for the resolution of cases, two Wyoming Supreme Court justices said.
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Wyoming’s Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a Wapiti man convicted of murder in killing of his wife.
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A court made an error when it allowed certain testimony to be offered in the case of a man accused of hitting his wife with his car and threatening her with a gun, Wyoming’s Supreme Court has ruled.
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Companies cannot use “non-compete” clauses to protect themselves against ordinary business competition, Wyoming’s Supreme Court has ruled.
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A state agency did what it could to keep a Rawlins family together before it recommended that its children be adopted by other parents, Wyoming’s Supreme Court has ruled.
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When police arrived at Jendersen’s home, they found Jenderson walking out of his apartment naked. He slipped past officers and was tasered twice, but was able to run out the back door and into the snow, where he was tackled.
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A man convicted of conspiring to blow up another man lost his latest appeal to the Wyoming Supreme Court.
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Wyoming’s Supreme Court has rejected a request to remove the name of a law enforcement agent from an order censuring a former Laramie County deputy district attorney.
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A Laramie County prosecuting attorney was censured for failing to correct flawed testimony given by an investigator on a marijuana trafficking case.
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The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled a Saudi Arabian man can respond to a custody case by his ex-Russian wife in Bahrain rather than Teton County.
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A man’s claims that he acted in self-defense when he shot a Cheyenne man during a quarrel stemming from a lover’s triangle were rejected Friday by Wyoming’s Supreme Court.
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A Swiss insurance company that refused to pay the Sinclair Co. for damage to its refinery in Wyoming lost its bid to avoid paying legal fees in the dispute on Monday.
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The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled that meth seized from a man’s car should be thrown out because the traffic stop was too long.
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Wyoming’s Supreme Court has cleared the way for an investigation by the state’s attorney general into a debt resolution company registered in Wyoming accused of taking money from its clients and taking no action on their behalf.
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The court on Wednesday agreed to let adoption proceedings continue by a man who wanted to adopt the child of his ex-wife after his remarriage, finding the word “single” in adoption laws means “one” rather than “unmarried.”
Wyoming’s Supreme Court has for the second time denied a man’s challenge of his $50 per month child support payment.
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A former tribal judge for the Wind River Indian Reservation has been disbarred from practicing law by the Wyoming Supreme Court after pleading guilty to drug distribution charges.
A man convicted of killing his brother lost his appeal to the Wyoming Supreme Court on Wednesday as justices agreed statements he made to arresting officers and to investigators should not be suppressed.
A man convicted when he was a teenager of murdering a Fremont County Sheriff’s deputy recently lost his appeal of his life sentence.
The conviction of a man who was arrested in 2019 with more than 120 pounds of marijuana in the car he was driving was upheld Tuesday by Wyoming’s Supreme Court.
A man who was required to register as a sex offender because of a change in state law must continue to register even though his conviction occurred more than 25 years ago, Wyoming’s Supreme Court has ruled.
A man who claimed to have fathered a child while involved in an “open relationship” can seek court action to determine whether he is the child’s father, Wyoming’s Supreme Court ruled Friday.
The conviction of a Gillette man on charges of drug possession and driving under the influence of intoxicants has been overturned by Wyoming’s Supreme Court, which ruled sheriff’s deputies improperly entered the man’s apartment without a warrant.
A man who shot a dog while it was being held by a teenager was properly convicted of reckless endangering, Wyoming’s Supreme Court has ruled.
A Burns teacher dismissed for violating the school’s policies on bullying and intimidating students while disciplining his daughter on school property was properly removed from his job, Wyoming’s Supreme Court has ruled.
Justices on Friday issued a memo rejecting the latest appeal of Jesse James Hartley in his felony murder and child abuse convictions stemming from the death of 2-year-old Brandon Green.
A Cheyenne police officer did not use excessive force when he punched and used a choke hold on a man who was trying to take his pistol, Wyoming’s Supreme Court has ruled.
The conviction of a woman accused of being an accessory in a man’s 2018 death in a Sundance convenience store was overturned Friday by the Wyoming Supreme Court.
The Wyoming Supreme Court has lifted a suspension against a Casper attorney that was issued in January.
A planning commission had no authority to deny a company’s request to build a controversial gravel mine in southwestern Laramie County, Wyoming’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
The rights to fish a neighbor’s property along the banks of the Little Laramie River remain in effect 55 years after they were granted, Wyoming’s Supreme Court has ruled.
A man sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of kidnap and sexual assault more than 25 years ago has lost in his attempt to be held in a lower-security facility.
The residents of a home from which a Cheyenne teenager stole a handgun used to kill a man in 2014 had no way to know the gun would be stolen or used in a murder and are not liable for damages, Wyoming’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The former chief judge for the Wind River Indian Reservation Tribal Court was suspended from practicing law Wednesday by the Wyoming Supreme Court because of issues stemming from her conviction on federal drug charges.
The old saying “good fences make good neighbors” apparently does not apply in cases of window wells, sprinklers and property lines.
An eight and one-half year delay in the filing of charges against a man convicted of assaulting a woman in Laramie did not deny him his right to due process of law, Wyoming’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
A man sentenced to probation after pleading guilty a string of burglaries in Wright properly had his probation revoked he was accused of trying to rob a storage unit, Wyoming’s Supreme Court has ruled.
Wyoming’s courts have authority to recognize adoptions approved under international treaties, Wyoming’s Supreme Court has ruled.
A divided Wyoming Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a man who was driving a van found to contain 121 pounds of marijuana, rejecting his claims that the search of his vehicle was unconstitutional.
