Tennessee Jury Verdicts, Settlements and Court Decisions
<h2> <center> State of Tennessee v. Brian Howard </h2> </center>
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second degree murder, attempted second degree murder, felony possession of a firearm, and employing a firearm during the commission of a felony. After a domestic dispute turned deadly, a Shelby County Grand Jury indicted Petitioner on one count each of (1) second degree murder, (2) attempted second degree murder... More...
$ (04-02-2026 - TN)<h2> <center> State of Tennessee v. Lacy Frank Walls, III </h2> </center>
Pulaski, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with evading arrest and three counts of possession of a firearm after being convicted of a felony.... More...
$ (04-02-2026 - TN)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Cameron Treon Banks </h2> </center>
Jackson, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of firearms.... More...
$ (04-03-2026 - TN)<h2> <center> Untied States of America v. American Health Companies, LLC, dba American Health Partners </h2> </center>
Nashville, Tennessee, commercial litigation lawyers represented the Defendant accused of violating the False Claims Act. American Health Companies, LLC (“AHC”), doing business as American Health Partners (“AHP”), was accused to violating the False Claims Act allegations related to billing Medicare and TennCare for grossly substandard nursing home services from Lewis County Nursing and R... More...
$2090309 (04-03-2026 - TN)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Ryan Patrick Garrett </h2> </center>
Knoxville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted enticement. on March 13, 2025, detectives with the Knoxville Police Department (KPD) and agents of the United States Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested 41-year-old Ryan Patrick Garrett on a federal complaint of Enticement of a minor for the purposes of an illegal sexual act. ... More...
$ (03-25-2026 - TN)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Cody Ray Brewer </h2> </center>
Jackson, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of children. Cody Ray Brewer, age 30, of Saulsbury, Tennessee, engaged in various illegal sexual acts with a minor at a residence in Hardeman County, Tennessee in early January 2025, and that he set up a camera in the minor’s bedroom to record those acts. Following the execution of a search ... More...
$ (03-25-2026 - TN)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Tiffany Haney, Anne Warren, and Tina Roper </h2> </center>
Knoxville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Tiffany Haney, 43, Anne Warren, 45, and Tina Roper, 40, all of Knoxville, were accused of engaging in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349. The jury also convicted Haney and Warren of committing specific acts of wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C... More...
$ (03-16-2026 - TN)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Tyrell Wallace </h2> </center>
Jackson, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing and selling controlled substances. Tyrell Wallace, a guard at the Dyer County Jail, reported to work on October 24, 2024. Investigators stopped Wallace and announced an administrative search. Inside Wallace’s waistband, investigators recovered 53 grams of actual methamphetamine with a purity level of... More...
$ (03-16-2026 - TN)<h2> <center> State of Tennessee v. Danell Jarvis Maxwell </h2> </center>
Memphis, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with murder for killing a police officer. Danell Jarvis Maxwell accused of killing Officer Torres-Molina,... More...
$ (03-05-2026 - TN)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Cordney Campbell </h2> </center>
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of a firearm.... More...
$ (03-05-2026 - TN)<h2> <center> State of Tennessee v. Alexander Donahoe </h2> </center>
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with possession of child pornography.... More...
$ (03-05-2026 - TN)<h2> <center> United States of America v. LaGarrion Lamontez Blacksmith </h2> </center>
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. LaGarrion Lamontez Blacksmith, age 36, of Nashville, accused with killing C.E. in a nightclub.... More...
$ (03-05-2026 - TN)United States of America v. Amado Magallon Guerrero
Nashville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with multiple counts of conspiracy, drug trafficking, and money laundering. Guerrero's motion to suppress evidence were overruled. The Fifth Amendment guarantees that “[n]o person . . . shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.” U.S. Const. amend. V. In the seminal decision of M... More...
$ (03-03-2026 - TN)State of Tennessee v. Alexander Franklin Rodriguez, et al.
Nashville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a kilo of cocaine. Alexander Franklin Rodriguez, age 33, was driving a pickup truck that was stopped on Murfreesboro Pike. He consented to a search of his truck and the drugs were found in the console.... More...
$ (02-24-2026 - TN)State of Tennessee v. Alexander Franklin Rodriguez
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking. Alexander Franklin Rodriguez, age 33, was found to have possession of a kilo of cocaine.... More...
$ (02-26-2026 - TN)United States of America v. Oleksandr Didenko
Washington, D.C. criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant wire fraud and identity theft. Oleksandr Didenko, 29, of Kyiv, Ukraine, fraudulently inflicted systemic and deliberate financial harm on U.S. companies and American citizens to benefit not only himself, but a hostile nation state,” said Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky of the FBI’s Counterintelligence and Espionage Divisio... More...
$ (02-26-2026 - TN)United States of America v. James Lafayette Moore
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. On August 24, 2025, James Lafayette Moore, age 51, of Nashville, Tennessee, shot an unarmed man four times in the face, neck, and upper body at point blank range on the balcony of My Town Extended Stay on Antioch Pike in Nashville. The shooting was captured on... More...
$ (02-26-2026 - TN)United States of America v. Shaneika Seymore
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with mail fraud and bank fraud.... More...
$ (02-26-2026 - TN)United States of America v. Jared Goodman
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interstate domestic violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2261, which provides: (a) Offenses.— (1) Travel or conduct of offender.— A person who travels in interstate or foreign commerce or enters or leaves Indian country or is present within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United State... More...
$ (02-26-2026 - TN)United States of America v. Edward Allen and Deandre Rodgers
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murdering by gunshot a fellow gang member who they suspected of betraying the gang. Edward Allen, also known as E-Money, 42, and Deandre Rodgers, a.k.a. Dre, 29, both of Memphis, were high-ranking members of a criminal enterprise that controlled territory throughout the entire city of Memphis and extended beyond... More...
$ (02-16-2026 - TN)United States of America v. Mark Janbakhsh
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Mark Janbakhsh, 51, of Brentwood, Tennessee, was with multiple multiple federal fraud charges, including Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud, Bank Fraud, Making False Statements to a Bank, Bankruptcy Fraud, and Making False Statements Under Oath Three other co-conspirators, each of ... More...
$ (02-16-2026 - TN)United States of America v. Jonathan D. Frost
Chattanooga, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering, and Conspiracy to Defraud the United States. Jonathan D. Frost, 42, of Soddy Daisy, Tennessee, participated in a scheme in which investments were solicited for the purpose of building and operating a facility that would use solar power to... More...
$ (02-14-2026 - TN)United States of America v. Andrew Worrall
Knoxville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of a child and enticement. Andrew Worrall, 56, a British national currently residing in Knox County, Tennessee, Worrall contacted a 17-year-old minor female on the Snapchat application using the internet in July 2025. Knowing the age of the child, Worrall requested nude pictures of the ... More...
$ (02-13-2026 - TN)State of Tennessee v. Bryce Grant-Martin
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated battery. Bryce Grant-Martin was arrested and charged with aggravated battery, intimidation with a deadly weapon and pointing a firearm.... More...
$ (02-09-2026 - TN)State of Tennessee v. Andrew Bauer
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Andrew Bauer, 49, was arrested after stabbing a woman in the hand Sunday night in southwest Louisville.... More...
$ (02-09-2026 - TN)United States of America v. Nathan Lee Westbrook
Knoxville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2). On February 21, 2025, investigators with the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations – Internet Crimes Against Children (HSI-ICAC) Task Force received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited ... More...
$ (02-06-2026 - TN)United States of America v. Mark Janbakhsh
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud, Bank Fraud, Making False Statements to a Bank, Bankruptcy Fraud, and Making False Statements Under Oath. Mark Janbakhsh, 51, of Brentwood, Tennessee, was the chief executive officer and majority owner of a car dealership company named Auto Masters. In addition to Auto Masters, J... More...
$ (02-06-2026 - TN)United States of America v. Amanda Kate Walker Bass
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with to one count of wire fraud and one count of fraudulent use of military medals, otherwise known as “Stolen Valor.” Amanda Kate Walker Bass, 36, of Fayette County, claimed to be a multiple-time deployed U.S. Marine Corps veteran who was the lone survivor of an enemy ambush in Afghanistan in 2010 that left her... More...
$ (02-06-2026 - TN)State of Tennessee v. Mark Anthony Sexton, Jr. and Mark Anthony Sexton III
Jonesborough, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with murder. Mark Anthony Sexton, Jr. and Mark Anthony Sexton III were accused of killing Johnson City convenience store clerk Tava Woodard, age 23, in 2023.... More...
$ (02-06-2026 - TN)State of Tennessee v. Austin Robert Drummond
Jackson, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with four counts of first-degree murder, one count of aggravated kidnapping and weapons offenses. Austin Robert Drummond, 28, was taken into custody amid a search, and accused of parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a front yard.... More...
$ (08-05-2025 - TN)United States of America v. Tyler Shane Wells
Knoxville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens and conspiracy to forcibly assault, resist, impeded, intimidate and interfere with any person in performance of official duties. Tyler Shane Wells, 33, of Morristown, TN, and Alexander Bonilla-Servin, 18, of Smyrna, TN, conspired: to conceal and harbor illegal aliens f... More...
$ (01-25-2026 - TN)United States of America v. Juan Alvarado-Garcia
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm. Juan Alvarado-Garcia, 29, of Madison, Tennessee, has been charged by criminal complaint with unlawful possession of a firearm by an illegal alien, and Samuel Hernandez, 32, of Madison, Tennessee, has been charged by criminal complaint with unlawful possession o... More...
$ (01-25-2026 - TN)United States of America v. Christopher Walker
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer Barry McWhirter represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of a firearm, possession of a machine gun, and trafficking in marijuana. In October 2024, ATF agents conducted an undercover operation targeting the sale of Machinegun Conversion Devices (MCD) and illegal drugs. Christopher Walker, 38, of Memphis, sold a confidential inform... More...
$ (01-23-2026 - TN)<H2> State of Tennessee v. Raymond Dowdy
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. raymond Dowdy, age 88, accused of killing a woman he lived with.... More...
$ (01-06-2026 - TN)<H2> United States of America v. Tyrell Wallace
Jackson, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with knowingly possessing actual methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. Tyrell Wallace, a guard at the Dyer County Jail, reported to work on October 24, 2024. Investigators stopped Wallace and announced an administrative search. Inside Wallace’s waistband, investigators recovered 53 grams of actual methamphe... More...
$ (12-30-2025 - TN)<H2> United States of America v. Joshua M. Rogers
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with destroying evidence related to a police officer’s fatal shooting of a man identified by the initials R.H. Joshua M. Rogers, age 33, plea established that Rogers’ co-defendant, Patric J. Ferguson, was on duty as an officer with the Memphis Police Department when Ferguson kidnapped and fatally shot R.H. on Janu... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - TN)<H2> United States of America v. Jason Alexander Jerkins
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with stealing money from his clients’ bank accounts, preparing false tax returns that fraudulently increased their refunds, and stealing some or all of those refunds. Jason Alexander Jerkins of Franklin pleaded guilty on July 30, 2025. According to court documents and statements made in court, Jerkins, owner of Je... More...
$ (12-17-2025 - TN)<H2> United States of America v. Courtney Sterling
Greenville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Distribute 50 Grams or More of Methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1), and (b)(1)(A), Possession of a Firearm as an Illegal Alien, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(5), and Aggravated Re-entry, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a), (b)(2). In November of 2022, the John... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - TN)<H2> United States of America v. Milder Escobar-Temal
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(A), Milder Escobar-Temal is a citizen of Guatemala who came to America unlawfully over a decade ago and resides in Nashville, Tennessee. In October 2022, police found three firearms in Escobar-Temal’s residence. Escobar-Temal was born in Guat... More...
$ (12-16-2025 - TN)<H2> United States of America v. Stacy Owens
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with onspiring to distribute controlled substances. In June 2019, as part of an investigation of a large-scale drug conspiracy, federal agents intercepted two mail parcels addressed to Owens’s residence. Those parcels together contained nearly five kilograms of methamphetamine. An undercover agent then deliv... More...
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