Alabama Burglary Law

State of Alabama v. David Smith

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer is represented the Defendant charged with capital murder because it allegedly happened during a burglary, another capital murder charge because the child present was less than 14 years of age, and another capital murder charge of two or more persons. David Smith was accused of breaking into a women's shelter and shot the mother of his child. ... More...

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State of Alabama v. Antonio Deon Reed

Birmingham, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with capital murder. In January 2008, Reed broke into 85-year-old Grace Garner's home in Birmingham and beat her to death. Reed's DNA was found at the scene, and he confessed to the crime. Reed pleaded guilty in April 2010 to murder made capital because it was committed during the commission of a burglary, see ... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. Daryl Lowe </h1>

<h2><center>Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Illegally Possessing A Firearm </center><center> Mobile Man Sentenced To 63 Months For Illegally Possessing A Firearm</h2></center> </h2></center> Daryl Lowe, a Mobile man, has been sentenced to 63 month... More...

$0 (11-14-2024 - AL)

<h1> United States of America v. Elizabeth Elaine Pemberton </h1>

<h2><center> Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possessing a Firearm as a Convicted Felon </center><center> Court Sentences Mobile Woman to 2 Years Imprisonment for Possessing a Firearm as a Convicted Felon</h2></center> </h2></center> On August 5, 2... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. Miguel Wayne Hall </h1>

<h2><center> Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon. </center><center> Texas Man Sentenced to 51 Months in Prison for Illegally Possessing a Firearm</h2></center> </h2></center> A Houston, Texas man ... More...

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Joseph Clifton Smith v. Commissioner Alabama Department of Corrections

Mobile, Alabama federal public defender's claimed that Defendant's Eighth Amendment Rights were violated. Durk Van Dam was brutally murdered on November 23, 1997. Smith v. Campbell ("Smith IIIâ€), 620 F. App'x 734, 736 (11th Cir. 2015). Police found Van Dam's body in an isolated area near his pick-up truck in Mobile County. Id. On the same day that police discover... More...

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United States of America v. Ignacio Gallardo Flores

Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being unlawfully in the United States after having been previously removed from the country. On November 7, 2022, the Mobile Police Department received a report of a stolen U-Haul car trailer and an attempted theft of a U-Haul utility trailer from an authorized U-Haul dealer in Mobile, Alabama. Officers from the Mo... More...

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State of Alabama v. Jimmy Spencer

Guntersville, Alabama criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with seven counts of capital murder. JJimmy Spencer faced seven counts of capital murder after being accused of causing the deaths of Martha Reliford, Marie Martin, age 74, Martha Reliford, and Colton Lee to make money and make ends meet. 2016 Code of Alabama Title 13A - CRIMINAL CODE. Chapter 6 - OFF... More...

$0 (10-28-2022 - AL)

United States of America v. Michael Bates

Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with felony firearm possession. On April 14, 2020, Mobile police officers spoke with a woman who reported that her boyfriend, Michael Bates, 28, had taken her car without her permission and that there was a firearm in the vehicle. At around the same time, employees of the La Quinta Inn in Tillman's Corner called for po... More...

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United States of America v. Xavier Davell Shepard

Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922 which provides in part: "(g) It shall be unlawful for any personâ€” (1) who has been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year; (2) who is a fugitive from justice; (3) who is a... More...

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MARCUS BERNARD WILLIAMS V. STATE OF ALABAMA

<center><h2><center>Huntsville, AL- Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with capital murder, burglary and attempted rape charges. </h2></center> On November 6, 1996, Mr. Williams returned home after a night of drinking and smoking marijuana with friends. Williams v. State, 795 So. 2d 753, 761 (Ala. Crim. App. 1999). Upon arriving home, he... More...

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United States of America v. Tevin Michael Coffman

Montgomery, AL: Firearm theft criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Tevin Michael Coffman, age 30, was indicted for unlawfully taking a firearm from a federal firearms licensee, possession of stolen firearms, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. On March 22, 2020, Gander Outdoors, a business authorized to sell firearms in Dothan, Alabama, was burglarized and multiple gu... More...

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United States of America v. Simeon C. Taylor

<center> <img width="300" src="http://www.alsd.uscourts.gov/sites/alsd/files/upstrt2.jpg"> </center> Mobile, AL - Mobile County Man Receives 60 Months After Conviction for Conspiring to Steal Firearms Simeon C. Taylor, a 27 year old resident of Citronelle, Alabama was sentenced to 60 months incarceration for conspiring to receive, possess and steal firearms. On Novemb... More...

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United States of America v. Travis L. McCryndle

<center> <img width="300" src="http://www.alsd.uscourts.gov/sites/alsd/files/upstrt2.jpg"> </center> Mobile, AL - Baldwin County Man Receives 12 Months and a Day for Possession of a Firearm After Felony Conviction Travis L. McCryndle, a 33 year old resident of Bay Minette, Alabama was sentenced to 12 months and a day for possession of a Ruger .22, semi-automatic rifle after be... More...

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United States of America v. Allen Malcolm Steinke

<center> <img width="300" src="http://www.alsd.uscourts.gov/sites/alsd/files/upstrt2.jpg"> </center> Mobile, AL - Felon in Possession of a Firearm Sentenced in Federal Court Allen Malcolm Steinke, 35, of Robertsdale, Alabama, was sentenced on the charge of felon in possession of a firearm. Court documents reflect that Steinke was in a vehicle stopped by the Elberta police for... More...

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Jeffrey Cozzl v. City of Birmingham and Cedrick Thomas

Jeffrey Cozzi was arrested for the robbery of one pharmacy and the attempted robbery of another. He was released after the police found no evidence linking him to the crimes. Cozzi sued Officer Cedrick Thomas, the City of Birmingham, Alabama, and several other law enforcement officers alleging, among other claims, a violation of his Fourth Amendment right to be free from what he contends was an un... More...

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United States of America v. Michael DeWayne Johnson

Birmingham, AL - Federal Judge Sentences Prior Felon to 22 Years in Prison for Armed Carjacking A federal judge on March 20, 2018 sentenced a Graysville man to more than 20 years in prison for a 2016 carjacking in Forestdale. U.S. District Judge L. Scott Coogler sentenced MICHAEL DeWAYNE JOHNSON, 33, to 21 years and 10 months in prison on one count each of carjacking, being a con... More...

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United States of America v. Brad Jason Long

Mobile, AL - Mobile Man Sentenced on Felon in Possession of Firearm Charges Brad Jason Long of Mobile County, Alabama was sentenced in federal court on November 7, 2017 to 180 months imprisonment based on his guilty plea to the crime of being a felon in possession of a firearm and being found to be a career criminal, subject to 18 U.S.C. 924(e). On or about January 3, 2017, in ... More...

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United States of America v. Terrance Tyrone Davis

This is an ACCA “violent felony” issue case. So here we go down the rabbit hole again to a realm where we must close our eyes as judges to what we know as men and women. It is a pretend place in which a crime that the defendant committed violently is transformed into a non-violent one because other defendants at other times may have been convicted, or future defendants could be convicted, of v... More...

$0 (11-07-2017 - AL)

Tawuan Townes v. State of Alabama

Townes had plans to rob Woods, a known drug dealer. Woods lived in a house in Dothan with his girlfriend, India Starks. On November 13, 2008, Townes and Cornelius Benton drove to Woods's house. Townes was armed with a .22 caliber rifle, and Benton was armed with a .380 caliber pistol that belonged to Townes's brother. Townes and Benton wore dark clothing and obscured their faces to conceal their ... More...

$0 (03-13-2016 - AL)

State of Alabama v. John Clayton Owens

Huntsville, Al - Jury Convicts Defendant of Murder and Recommends Life Without Parole The States of Alabama charged John Clayton Owens with first-degree capital murder and first-degree burglary as a rsult of the death of 91-year-old Doris Richardson, who was strangled to death in her home.... More...

$0 (02-19-2016 - AL)

State of Alabama v. Emanuel Aaron Gissendanner, Jr.

Andrew Amison appeals his convictions for two counts of felony murder, see § 13A-6-2(a)(3), Ala. Code 1975, and his resulting sentences of 32 years in prison. Amison's sentences were ordered to run concurrently. CR-13-0707 On November 22, 2011, Amison and his accomplice, Broderick Brown, robbed and killed Sam Richardson in Richardson's barbershop. Amison was indicted for two counts 1 of cap... More...

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Ellis Andrel Diggs, v. State of Alabama

Ellis Andrel Diggs was convicted of the intentional murder of Garry Blackwell, see § 13A-6-2(a)(1), Ala. Code 1975. Diggs was sentenced as a habitual felon to life in prison without the possibility of parole. On appeal, Diggs CR-13-0746 contends that the trial court committed reversible error when it refused to instruct the jury on self-defense and provocation manslaughter. Diggs contends t... More...

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United States of America v. Ted McCall Snow

Jeremy Christian Nelson and Ted McCall Snow appeal sentences imposed under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1), after they each pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, id. § 922(g)(1). In general, that crime carries a maximum sentence of 10-years imprisonment. § 924(a)(2). But if a defendant has at least three prior “serious drug off... More...

$0 (01-09-2016 - AL)

United States of America v. Jeremy Christian Nelson

Jeremy Christian Nelson and Ted McCall Snow appeal sentences imposed under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1), after they each pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, id. § 922(g)(1). In general, that crime carries a maximum sentence of 10-years imprisonment. But if a defendant has at least three prior “serious drug offense” or ... More...

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Tawuan Townes v. State of Alabama

Tawuan Townes appeals his conviction for capital murder and his sentence of death. Townes was convicted of murder made capital for intentionally killing Christopher Woods during the course of a burglary. See § 13A-5-40(a)(4), Ala. Code 1975. The jury, by a vote of 10-2, recommended that Townes be sentenced to death. The Houston Circuit Court accepted the jury's recommendation and sentenced Tow... More...

$0 (01-02-2016 - AL)

Marcus Bernard Williams v. State of Alabama

Marcus Bernard Williams, an Alabama death-row prisoner, appeals the District Court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He argues that his lawyers were ineffective during the penalty phase of his capital murder trial Case: 12-14937 Date Filed: 06/26/2015 Page: 1 of 22 2 because they failed to investigate, discover, or present as mitigating evidence the fac... More...

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State of Alabama v. Carlos Edward Kennedy

The State of Alabama charged Carlos Edward Kennedy, age 27, with first-degree capital murder in conjunction with the death of Zoa White, who was beaten to death in her home in June of 2010. Police identified Kennedy from palm and fingerprints at the scene of the crime in addition to his DNA in blood samples. Section 13A-6-2 of the Code of Alabama provides: Section 13A-6-2 - Murder. (... More...

$0 (05-17-2013 - AL)

United States of America v. Derrick Dajuan Hall

Derrick Dajuan Hall appeals his 37-month sentence after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a handgun, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Â§ 922(g)(1). The district court enhanced Hall's sentence under U.S.S.G. Â§ 2K2.1(a)(4)(A) after determining that a prior 2006 felony conviction for possession of an unregistered sawed-off shotgun, in violation of 26 U.S.C. Â§ 5861(d), qualified as a ... More...

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Freddy Locarno Baloco v. Drummond Company, Inc.

The children of Valmore Locarno Rodriguez, Victor Hugo Orcasita Amaya, and Gustavo Soler Mora, three former union leaders murdered in Colombia in 2001 ("the Childrenâ€), appeal from the dismissal of their complaint against Appellee-Defendants, Drummond Company, Inc., Drummond Ltd.,1 Augusto Jimenez, and Alfredo Araujo.2 The Children allege that these Drummond entities and employees hired para... More...

$0 (02-03-2011 - AL)

Suzanne LeFrere v. Jorge Quezada, Baldwin County Commission, et al.

Because state supreme courts are the final arbiters of state law, "when we write to a state law issue, we write in faint and disappearing ink,â€ and "once the state supreme court speaks the effect of anything we have written vanishes like the proverbial bat in daylight, only faster.â€ Sultenfuss v. Snow, 35 F.3d 1494, 1504 (11th Cir. 1994) (Carnes, J., dissenting). A dozen years ago we h... More...

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