14 results for 'judge:"Cetrulo"'.
J. Cetrulo finds that a mother's parental rights were properly terminated on grounds that she engaged in medical child abuse, including procedures in which invasive tubes were placed in her daughter's body, her daughter being confined to a wheelchair, and the child being forced to wear unnecessary and painful leg braces. Affirmed.
Court: Kentucky Court Of Appeals, Judge: Cetrulo, Filed On: August 30, 2024, Case #: 2024-CA-0402-ME, Categories: Family Law
J. Cetrulo finds that a husband was properly denied his petition to set aside a dissolution of marriage. The husband contends he was unable to properly represent himself after being imprisoned for tax fraud and attempting suicide, but he had not signed the dissolution agreement under duress and had neither requested the appointment of a guardian ad litem nor proved one had been necessary. Affirmed.
Court: Kentucky Court Of Appeals, Judge: Cetrulo, Filed On: August 30, 2024, Case #: 2023-CA-1189-MR, Categories: Family Law
J. Cetrulo finds that a property owner failed to exercise his statutory right of redemption after he fell delinquent on property tax because he made no attempt to determine amounts due to the buyer for taxes or maintenance owed until after the redemption period expired. Affirmed.
Court: Kentucky Court Of Appeals, Judge: Cetrulo, Filed On: July 12, 2024, Case #: 2023-CA-1019-MR, Categories: Property, Tax
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J. Cetrulo finds that a mother's parenting time was improperly expanded after the child's grandparents were awarded custody on grounds that the baby had been born premature and with medical needs due to the mother's heroin addiction because the decision did not mention the child’s best interests, and the family court did not consider factual findings. Reversed.
Court: Kentucky Court Of Appeals, Judge: Cetrulo, Filed On: July 12, 2024, Case #: 2023-CA-1100-MR, Categories: Family Law
J. Cetrulo finds that defendant was properly found guilty of strangulation, assault, and other charges based on evidence that a neighbor saw defendant holding the victim by the hair and punching her in the face, and that the victim told police defendant choked her almost to the point of passing out. Affirmed.
Court: Kentucky Court Of Appeals, Judge: Cetrulo, Filed On: June 7, 2024, Case #: 2023-CA-0251-MR, Categories: Evidence, Assault
J. Cetrulo finds that defendant was properly denied an additional hearing for parole from the 99-year sentence imposed upon his 1987 murder conviction because his prior parole request had been denied, and he had been directed to serve the remainder of his sentence, rendering him ineligible for future parole under KRS 439.3403(2)(b). Affirmed.
Court: Kentucky Court Of Appeals, Judge: Cetrulo, Filed On: May 3, 2024, Case #: 2023-CA-0835-MR, Categories: Murder, Parole, Sentencing
J. Cetrulo finds that radiologists were improperly granted summary judgment in claims contending they misread x-rays that had been requested to determine whether a needle had broken off in a patient's knee during surgery because an orthopedist who may have lacked qualifications to testify as an expert in the field of radiology had been qualified to testify concerning the radiologists themselves. Reversed in part.
Court: Kentucky Court Of Appeals, Judge: Cetrulo, Filed On: April 19, 2024, Case #: 2023-CA-0748-MR, Categories: Experts, Medical Malpractice
J. Cetrulo dismisses claims plaintiff brought after he was struck by a car while crossing the street in an area with no crosswalk. Plaintiff contends the county failed to install pedestrian crosswalks in the area in question despite determining such would be necessary, but the county's determination constituted only a recommendation. Meanwhile, failing to install such did not constitute negligence. Affirmed.
Court: Kentucky Court Of Appeals, Judge: Cetrulo, Filed On: March 22, 2024, Case #: 2023-CA-0439-MR, Categories: Transportation, Immunity, Negligence
J. Cetrulo finds that defendant was properly convicted of criminal mischief after violating a domestic violence order by breaking into the marital home and destroying a significant amount of property therein. Defendant admitted he had destroyed the property after his wife and police found him inside the home asleep, with a baseball bat next to him. Affirmed.
Court: Kentucky Court Of Appeals, Judge: Cetrulo, Filed On: December 8, 2023, Case #: 2022-CA-1356-MR, Categories: Domestic Violence
J. Cetrulo finds that a bank was properly granted summary judgment in conversion claims contending a property owner's manager used money from her account for his own personal expenses because the owner twice signed powers of attorney authorizing the manager to open accounts and manage the business at his discretion. Affirmed.
Court: Kentucky Court Of Appeals, Judge: Cetrulo, Filed On: October 27, 2023, Case #: 2023-CA-0025-MR, Categories: Conversion, Banking / Lending
J. Cetrulo finds that an order confirming a property sale was valid even after the buyers learned the deed misidentified a neighboring lot because the mistaken identification could have easily been ascertained as a matter of public record.
Court: Kentucky Court Of Appeals, Judge: Cetrulo, Filed On: October 13, 2023, Case #: 2022-CA-1416-MR, Categories: Property