Alabama Fourth Amendment Law
<h2> <center> Roy Moore v. Cuy Cecile, et al. </h2> </center>
Birmingham, Alabama, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a defamation theory. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> In 2017, Roy Moore ran as the Republican nominee in a special election to fill an open seat for one of Alabama’s United States senators. In the final week... More...
$ (06-18-2026 - AL)United States of America v. Rodriques Javaun Humphrey
Montgomery, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal possession of a machine gun, possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, possession with intend to distribute marijuana, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. On January 7, 2025, officers with the Montgomery Police Department and the Alabama Law Enforceme... More...
$ (02-27-2026 - AL)United States of America v. Preston Buie
Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.<br> <br> Preston Buie was pulled over for following too closely behind a semi-truck. Within minutes, the officer who stopped him <br> became suspicious that something criminal was afoot—he had US... More...
$0 (10-20-2025 - AL)United States of America v. Nikequis Lachristopher Green
Mobile, AL criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.<br> <br> Defendant-Appellant Nikequis LaChristopher Green pled<br> guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C.<br> § 922(g)(1). Green's guilty plea came on the heels of three prior<br> convictions for two violent felonies and one serious drug offense:<br> Green was ... More...
$0 (09-10-2025 - AL)United States of America v. Nikequis Lachristopher Green
Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.<br> <br> Defendant-Appellant Nikequis LaChristopher Green pled<br> guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C.<br> § 922(g)(1). Green's guilty plea came on the heels of three prior<br> convictions for two violent felonies and one serious drug offense:<br> Green... More...
$0 (09-10-2025 - AL)Joseph Clifton Smith v. Commissioner Alabama Department of Corrections
Mobile, Alabama federal public defender's claimed that Defendant's Eighth Amendment Rights were violated.<br> <br> Durk Van Dam was brutally murdered on November 23, <br> 1997. Smith v. Campbell ("Smith IIIâ€), 620 F. App'x 734, 736 (11th Cir. <br> 2015). Police found Van Dam's body in an isolated area near his <br> pick-up truck in Mobile County. Id. On the same day that police <br> discover... More...
$0 (05-19-2023 - AL)<H2> Kevin Penn v. City of Decatur, Alabama and Justin Rippen </H2>
Birmingham, Alabama civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants claiming wrongful arrest, retaliation and excessive for violations of the First and Fourth Amendments.<br> <table><br> <h1><br> <center><br> <a font="red" href="https://www.morelaw.com/alabama/news/birmingham/" target="_new">MoreLaw Legal News For Birmingham</a><br> </font><br> </center><br> </h1><br> </table><br> </... More...
$0 (01-26-2023 - AL)D.E. v. Lieutenant McKinsey, et al.
Mobile, Alabama civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on a prison civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983.<br> <table><br> <h1><br> <center><br> <a font="red" href="https://www.morelaw.com/alabama/news/mobile/" target="_new">MoreLaw Legal News For Mobile</a><br> </font><br> </center><br> </h1><br> </table><br> </center><br> According to the complaint, (Doc. 1), ... More...
$1 (01-19-2023 - AL)Rhonda Davis, Gwyndal Moore and Dustin Davis v. TK Elevator Corporation
Anniston, Alabama personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendant on a negligence theories claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in injuries and/or damages as a direct result of the failure to exercise due care on the part of the Defendant's employees. <br> <br> <br> On December 17, 2018, Rhonda Davis, Dustin Davis, and Gwyndal Moore arrived at Grandview Medical Center for ... More...
$1 (10-05-2022 - AL)United States of America v. Rolando Antuain Williamson, a/k/a "Baldhead," a/k/a "Ball Head"
Birmingham, Alabama criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with felony possession of drugs and guns.<br> <br> Rolando Antuain Williamson, aka "Baldhead†and "Ball Head,†37, of Bessemer, Alabama, to life in prison plus 120 months for leading a multi-million dollar continuing criminal enterprise; conspiring to distribute or possess with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl, ... More...
$0 (08-11-2022 - AL)United States of America v. Darryl Urgelles Mestre
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Anniston, AL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant claiming violation of his Fourth Amendment rights. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> When a party objects to a Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation, <br> the district court must review the disputed portions de novo. 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). <br> The district court "may accept, reject, ... More...
$0 (11-17-2021 - AL)MARCUS BERNARD WILLIAMS V. STATE OF ALABAMA
<center><h2><font color="red"><center>Huntsville, AL- Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with capital murder, burglary and attempted rape charges. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> On November 6, 1996, Mr. Williams returned home after a night of drinking<br> and smoking marijuana with friends. Williams v. State, 795 So. 2d 753, 761 (Ala.<br> Crim. App. 1999). Upon arriving home, he... More...
$0 (10-28-2021 - AL)United States of America v. DAVID TIGNER
<center><h2><font color="red"><center>Huntsville, AL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, five counts of unlawful distribution of controlled substances, and two counts of using a firearm during and in relation to a drug-trafficking crime charges. He now files a motion for compassionate release and appointment of counsel.</h2><... More...
$0 (10-28-2021 - AL)United States of America v. DAVID TIGNER
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Birmingham, AL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, five counts of unlawful distribution of controlled substances, and two counts of using a firearm during and in relation to a drug-trafficking crime charges. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Mr. Tigner is serving a 210-month sentenc... More...
$0 (10-17-2021 - AL)United States of America v. CHRISTOPHER LAMAR CARROLL
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Birmingham, AL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> This matter comes before the court on Christopher Lamar Carroll's "Motion <br> for Sentence Reduction Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)†filed on February 19, <br> ... More...
$0 (09-03-2021 - AL)United States of America v. DARRYL DWAYNE RUSSELL
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Birmingham, AL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with: (1) a "Motion to Correct an Illegal Sentence; (2) a "Motion for Additional Authority Pursuant to Motion to Correct an Illegal Sentence; (3) a motion for relief pursuant to the First Step Act of 2018; and (4) a motion for compassionate release due to COVID-19 charge. </h2></font></b></i></cen... More...
$0 (09-03-2021 - AL)United States of America v. RAUL TOPETE
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Birmingham, AL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with one count of money laundering and one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 1000 kilograms or more of marijuana and 5 kilograms or more of cocaine charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> This matter comes before the court on a motion for compassionate release <br> f... More...
$0 (09-03-2021 - AL)United States of America v. ISIAH LUEVONE THOMAS
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Birmingham, AL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> On August 24-26, 2020, defendants Isiah Luevone Thomas ("Thomasâ€) and <br> Tavara Japree Gissendanner ("Gissendannerâ€) were tried and convicted by a jury... More...
$0 (09-02-2021 - AL)FERLANDO CARMISE MIMS v. United States of America
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Birmingham, AL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a motion to vacate, set aside, or correct a sentence for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute and distribute a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of heroin, cocaine hydrochloride, and fentanyl charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> On September 28, 201... More...
$0 (09-02-2021 - AL)United States of America v. IDALIA MALDONADO-PEÑA United States of America v. JUAN RIVERA-GEORGE, a/k/a TIO United States of America v. SUANETTE RAMOS-GONZALEZ, a/k/a SUEI, a/k/a SUANETTE GONZALEZRAMOS United States of America v. CARLOS RIVERA-ALEJANDRO United States of America v. JOEL RIVERA-ALEJANDRO, a/k/a "J"
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Birmingham, AL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with voicing a speedy trial complaints during the pretrial period claim. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> These appeals arise from the drug conspiracy and <br> distribution convictions of five members of a vast drug trafficking <br> organization. Operating primarily out of the Los Claveles H... More...
$0 (09-02-2021 - AL)United States of America v. DAVID TIGNER
<center><h2><font color="red"><center> Birmingham, AL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, five counts of unlawful distribution of controlled substances, and two counts of using a firearm during and in relation to a drug-trafficking crime charges. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Mr. Tigner is serving a 210-month sentenc... More...
$0 (09-01-2021 - AL)United States of America v. Willie M. Burks, III
Montgomery, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with depriving another of their civil rights.<br> <br> Willie Burks, 42, was indicted for failing to stop an officer under his command from assaulting an inmate at ADOC's Elmore Correctional Facility.<br> <br> The evidence at trial established that when Burks watched calmly as his subordinate, Sergeant Ulysses Oliver, took a... More...
$0 (07-23-2021 - AL)United States of America v. James Marvin Hawkins, a/k/a "D"
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.almb.uscourts.gov/sites/almb/files/Courthouse%20with%20Fountain%20small.png"><br> </center><br> A jury found James Marvin Hawkins and Wallace Eugene McCree, III, guilty of conspiring to distribute cocaine and committing other related offenses. In this consolidated appeal, Hawkins and McCree challenge their convictions and sentences on multiple grounds.... More...
$0 (08-21-2019 - AL)Bonny Edward Taylor v. Henry P. Hughes and Bill Blue
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.almb.uscourts.gov/sites/almb/files/Courthouse%20with%20Fountain%20small.png"><br> </center><br> Almus Taylor died from internal bleeding after being kept in a jail holding cell overnight. Bonny Edward Taylor, Almus’s father and the Administrator of Almus’s estate, sued the jail guards under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Alabama state law, alleging that the... More...
$0 (04-03-2019 - AL)United States of America v. State of Alabama
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.alnd.uscourts.gov/sites/alnd/files/hugo.jpg"><br> </center><br> Birmingham, AL - Justice Department Alleges Conditions in Alabama Men's Prisons Violate the Constitution<br> <br> The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Alabama today concluded that there is ... More...
$0 (04-03-2019 - AL)Sumnar Robert Brewster v. Gary Hetzel
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.alnd.uscourts.gov/sites/alnd/files/hugo.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> In olden days a number of methods were used to ensure that juries reached a unanimous verdict. From the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, one Case: 16-16350 Date Filed: 01/22/2019 Page: 1 of 33<br> 2<br> “method of accelerating unanimity” was to prohibit jurors from eat... More...
$0 (01-22-2019 - AL)Angela McCullough, et al. v. Ernest Finley, Jr., et al.
<center><h2><br> <p style="border:3phttps://www.morelaw.com/morelawadmin/verdicts.php?action=edit&id=121426x; border-style:solid; border-color:#FF0000; padding: 0em;"><br> <font color="red">Morelaw Internet Marketing</font><br> <a href="http://www.morelaw.com/lawyers/recent.asp" target="_new"> National Find A Lawyer Directory</a><br> <br> </p><br> </h2><br> </center><br> <br> This appeal requires ... More...
$0 (10-29-2018 - AL)Anthony L. Green v. Jackie Graham
This interlocutory appeal presents questions about state sovereign immunity and related principles of federal jurisdiction. Anthony Green, Brooke Walker, and Earl Howton Jr. petitioned a state court for injunctive and declaratory relief entitling them to an enhanced status in the retirement system for Alabama state employees. The state officials named as defendants removed the action to federal co... More...
$0 (10-12-2018 - AL)Sheena Yarbrough v. Decatur Housing Authority
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://i2.wp.com/leadership.saportareport.com/sustainable-communities/files/2017/11/Decatur-Housing-Authority-Trinity-Walk-Apartments.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1"><br> </center><br> <br> This appeal requires us to decide whether indictments and evidence of an arrest constitute sufficient evidence to support the decision of a public housing authority to terminate hou... More...
$0 (10-11-2018 - AL)J.W. v. Birmingham Board of Education
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.alnd.uscourts.gov/sites/alnd/files/hugo.jpg"><br> </center><br> Student Resource Officers employed by the Birmingham Police Department and stationed at schools have the authority to use Freeze +P, an incapacitating chemical spray, on students under certain circumstances. A number of Birmingham high school students who were sprayed with or exposed to Fr... More...
$0 (10-02-2018 - AL)William S. Kaye v. Blue Bell Creameries, Inc.
Bruno’s Supermarkets, LLC (“the Debtor”) filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11. In administering and ultimately liquidating the bankruptcy estate, the Trustee filed an adversary proceeding against Blue Bell Creameries, Inc. (“Blue Bell”) to recover monies the Trustee contended were owed by Blue Bell to the estate. Specifically, the Trustee sought to recover from Blue Bell more than $500,... More...
$0 (08-14-2018 - AL)Marnika Lewis, et al. v. Governor of Alabama, et al.
For a single day in February 2016, Marnika Lewis and Antoin Adams secured a pay raise. The Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, William Bell, had just affixed his signature to Birmingham Ordinance No. 16-28, which guaranteed Lewis, Adams, and all other wage earners in the city $10.10 per hour. But the following afternoon, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley signed the Minimum Wage and Right-to-Work Act (The ... More...
$0 (07-31-2018 - AL)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...
$0 (06-21-2018 - AL)Edward Shaw v. City of Selmas
A Selma Police officer shot and killed Ananias Shaw, who was coming toward him with a hatchet. Shaw’s estate brought 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims for excessive force and false arrest and state law tort claims against Officer Desmond Williams, former Selma Police Chief William Riley, and the City of Selma. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants and the estate has appea... More...
$0 (03-12-2018 - AL)United States of America v. Micky Ray Hammon <P> <font color="red"><a href="http://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28536&z=74103&s=OK" target="_new">Morelaw Internet Marketing for Legal Professionals</a> <br> MoreLaw Can Make Your Phone Ring <br> 888-354-4529 </font>
Montgomery, AL - Former State Legislator Sentenced for Mail Fraud<br> <br> On Thursday, February 15, 2018, former State Representative Micky Ray Hammon, 60, of Decatur, Alabama, received a sentence of three months’ imprisonment for committing mail fraud, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Hammon served in the Alabama House of Representatives from 2003 until 2017, when he en... More...
$0 (02-15-2018 - AL)Rodney Keister v. Stuart Bell, John Hooks, Mitchell Odom
Rodney Keister appeals the district court’s denial of a preliminary injunction. Mr. Keister sought to enjoin University of Alabama (“UA”) officials from applying UA’s grounds use policy to the intersection of University Boulevard and Hackberry Lane. Application of this grounds use policy prevents him from speaking on UA’s campus unless he complies with its terms. Because the district cou... More...
$0 (01-23-2018 - AL)Sandra Slater v. United States Steel Corporation
When an individual files for bankruptcy, he must file sworn disclosures listing his debts and his assets, including any pending civil claims, and identifying any lawsuits he has filed against others. Occasionally, a plaintiff who has a pending civil lawsuit fails to list the claims or lawsuit in these disclosures. In omitting this information, the plaintiff effectively takes inconsistent positions... More...
$0 (09-18-2017 - AL)United States of America v. Michael Albert Focia
The Dark Web. For many, the name conjures images of a suspect shadow internet world where virtually anything can be bought for the right price.1 Indeed, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (“ATF”) Special Agent Tully Kessler described the Dark Web as “another side of the Internet . . . access[ible] through your Internet provider . . . [but only using] special software.” He op... More...
$0 (09-10-2017 - 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. 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.<br> 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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