Tennessee Jury Verdicts, Settlements and Court Decisions
<h2> <center> State of Tennessee v. Bryce Grant-Martin </h2> </center>
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)<h2> <center> State of Tennessee v. Andrew Bauer </h2> </center>
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)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Nathan Lee Westbrook </h2> </center>
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)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Mark Janbakhsh </h2> </center>
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)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Amanda Kate Walker Bass </h2> </center>
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)<h2> <center> State of Tennessee v. Mark Anthony Sexton, Jr. and Mark Anthony Sexton III </h2> </center>
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)<h2> <center> State of Tennessee v. Austin Robert Drummond </h2> </center>
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)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Tyler Shane Wells </h2> </center>
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)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Juan Alvarado-Garcia </h2> </center>
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)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Christopher Walker </h2> </center>
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> <center> State of Tennessee v. Raymond Dowdy </h2> </center>
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> <center> United States of America v. Tyrell Wallace </h2> </center>
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> <center> United States of America v. Joshua M. Rogers </h2> </center>
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> <center> United States of America v. Jason Alexander Jerkins </h2> </center>
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> <center> United States of America v. Courtney Sterling </h2> </center>
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> <center> United States of America v. Milder Escobar-Temal </h2>
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> <center> United States of America v. Stacy Owens </h2> </center>
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...
$ (12-16-2025 - TN)<H2> <center> State of Tennssee v. Paul Edward </h2> </center>
Memphis, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with pointing a firearm. Paul Edwards allegedly pointed a firearm at the driver of another vehicle in a road rage incident in East Memphis.... More...
$ (12-16-2025 - TN)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Maurice Harris </h2> </center>
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with committing a series of armed robberies of businesses in October 2024. Maurice Harris, age 32, of Memphis, conducted a series of armed robberies of the following businesses within the Western District of Tennessee: October 4, 2024: Metro by T-Mobile - 4673 Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, TN October ... More...
$ (12-16-2025 - TN)<H2> <center> State of Tennessee v. Niketa Jenkins </h2> </center>
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapons. Niketa Jenkins was accused of shooting her boyfriend in the leg on South Seventh Street.... More...
$ (12-16-2025 - TN)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Keviana Thomas </h2> </center>
Nashville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with aggravated assault. Keviana Thomas was apprehended for allegedly shooting a woman on 17th Avenue North.... More...
$ (12-16-2025 - TN)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Philip Taylor Sobash </h2> </center>
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of a minor, while also admitting to sexually exploiting six other minors. Between October 2018 and May 2019, Philip Taylor Sobash, age 35, of Austin, Texas, then a practicing physician, engaged in an online sexually explicit relationship with Minor Victim 1, who resided in the Middle Distric... More...
$ (12-16-2025 - TN)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Xue Rong Wu </h2> </center>
Greenville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of conspiracy to harbor aliens for the purpose of commercial advantage and private financial gain in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(iii) and (v)(I), (a)(1)(B)(i) and one count of aiding and abetting the practice and pattern of hiring for employment aliens not authorized to be employed in the Un... More...
$ (12-16-2025 - TN)<h2> <center> State of Tennessee v. Ronald Gray </h2> </center>
Blountville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug possession and trafficking.... More...
$ (12-05-2025 - TN)<H2> <center> Ellen Marie Cali v. Robert George Cali </h2> </center>
Jackson, Tennessee, family law lawyers represented the parties in a divorce. On December 15, 2012, Appellee Ellen Marie Cali ("Mother") and Appellant Robert George Cali ("Father") were married. Two children were born to the marriage, Isaiah (d/o/b October 2015) and Selah (d/o/b September 2019) (together, the "Children"). Isaiah has special needs due to his autism and attention deficit hyperacti... More...
$ (12-03-2025 - TN)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Gene Curtis Roper </h2> </center>
Greenville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with failure to register as a sex offender. * * * Supervised release is a “form of postconfinement monitoring overseen by the sentencing court.” Johnson v. United States, 529 U.S. 694, 696-97 (2000). During a supervised-release period, defendants must follow certain conditions—for example, a rule against �... More...
$ (12-04-2025 - TN)<H2> <center> Jamita Swearengen v. KTDS Trucking Services, LLC et al. </h2> </center>
Memphis, Tennessee, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on an auto negligence truck wreck claim.... More...
$1 (12-05-2025 - TN)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Rasshaun Morris </h2> </center>
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.... More...
$ (12-05-2025 - TN)<H2> <center> Cherisse Marquita Anderson v. Social Security Administration </h2> </center>
Memphis, Tennessee, social security disability lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking review of the denial by HHS of her application for Social Security: DIWC/DIWW benefits.... More...
$ (12-05-2025 - TN)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Gary Crawford </h2> </center>
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Gary Crawford has a long, mostly violent criminal record. It began at the age of sixteen, with convictions for criminally negligent homicide and reckless endangerment: he fired a handgun into a crowd and killed someone. In his early twenties came several more convict... More...
$ (12-05-2025 - TN)<h2> </center> United States of America v. Patric J. Ferguson </h2> </center>
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with r civil rights, firearms, kidnapping, and obstruction offenses in connection with the fatal shooting of a man identified by the initials R.H. Patric J. Ferguson, 34, a former Memphis Police Department Officer, was sentenced to prison. “This defendant committed a premeditated murder while using his position ... More...
$ (12-01-2025 - TN)<h2> <center> Alyssia Moulton v. Southern Health Partners, Inc. et al. </h2> <center>
Nashville, Tennessee, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights violation theory.<br> ... More...
$1 (11-25-2025 - TN)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Antonio Dooley </h2> </center>
Nashville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possession with intent to distribute cocaine.... More...
$0 (11-25-2025 - TN)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Tony Orlando Hughes </h2> </center>
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution and possession of with intent to distribute cocaine.... More...
$0 (11-25-2025 - TN)<h2> <center> State of Tennessee v. Travis Weatherly </h2> </center>
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated sexual battery committed against his nine-year-old victim.<br> <br> On appeal, the petitioner argues trial counsel was ineffective for failing to prepare the petitioner for trial, failing to pursue a defense, and failing to argue for a lower range at sentencing. The State contends the post-conviction cour... More...
$0 (11-14-2025 - TN)<h2> <center> State of Tennessee v. Niketa Jenkins </h2> </center>
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer will represent the Defendant charged with attempted reckless homicide.<br> <br> Niketa Jenkins was accused of shooting her boyfriend in the leg on South Seventh Street. ... More...
$0 (11-14-2025 - TN)<h2> <center> State of Tennessee v. Keviana Thomas </h2> </center>
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer will represent the Defendant charged with aggravated assault<br> <br> Keviana Thomas was apprehended for allegedly shooting a woman on 17th Avenue North.... More...
$0 (11-14-2025 - TN)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Jaylen Simpson </h2> </center>
Memphis, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with cartjacking resulting in serious bodily injury and discharging a firearm during the carjacking.<br> <br> On May 16, 2024, at around 7:45 a.m., Jaylen Simpson, 23, of Memphis, shot a 60-year-old victim in the stomach as the victim stepped outside his home to mow the lawn. Simpson, who had been hiding in the victimâ�... More...
$0 (11-14-2025 - TN)<h2> <center> State of Tennessee v. Kejuan King </h2> </center>
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a /firearm and second-degree murder.<br> <br> On the afternoon of January 13, 2017, Adarrell Anderson arrived at the Grizzly Mart gas station and store with two friends, Anthony Holloway and Julin Sanders. As the trio pulled into the parking lot, they noticed a silver, four-door Hyunda... More...
$0 (11-14-2025 - TN)<h2> <center> Rebecca Edwards v. Shelby County, Tennessee </h2> </center>
Memphis, Tennessee civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on e Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) violation theory.<br> <br> Rebecca Edwards, a former Shelby County Health Department employee, brought this action under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), asserting three claims. She alleed that the County (1) discriminated against her based on her<br> night blindness, (2) ... More...
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