Anchorage, Alaksa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first degree murder.

Denali Brehmer pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson accepted Brehmer’s guilty plea.

The charges stem from the June 2, 2019, murder of 19-year-old Cynthia Hoffman near Thunderbird Falls in Chugiak, Alaska. Brehmer admitted ... More...    $0 (02-15-2024 - AK)

Fairbanks, Alaska: Marvin L. Roberts was convicted of second-degree murder, first-degree robbery, and second-degree assault.

On Ocboer 11, 1997, 15-year-old John Hartman was beaten and sexually assaulted. He died on October 12, 1997.

Police arrested Engene Vent who allegedly confessed and identified Marvin Roberts, age 19, and others for assaulting Hartman.

George... More...    $0 (12-31-1999 - AK)

"The judge in a criminal jury trial plays a variety of important roles, including:

Presiding over the trial: The judge is responsible for maintaining order in the courtroom and ensuring that the trial proceeds fairly. This includes making rulings on evidentiary objections, instructing the jury on the law, and ensuring that both the prosecution and defense have a fair opportunity to pr... More...    $0 (02-05-2020 - AK)

Anchorage, Alaska criminal law lawyers represented Defendant changed with first-degree murder.

        We consolidated these two cases to resolve the following question: What is the effect of the death of a criminal defendant while an appeal is pending? John Carlin III was convicted of first-degree murder. He appealed his conviction to the court of appeals and died before the open... More...    $0 (03-25-2011 - AK)

Anchoragee, Alaska criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder.


Mechele K. Linehan, a/k/a Mechele Hugbes, and John T. Carlin III were accused of shooting and killing Kent Leppink, age 36, near Hope, Alaska on or about May 2, 1996.

eppink, a 36-year-old commercial fisherman, was found shot to death near Hope, Alaska, about 90 miles from Anchora... More...    $0 (10-22-2007 - AK)

Anchorage, Alaska criminal law lawyers represented Defendants charged with kidnapping and drug trafficking.

Believing that the victim had stolen drugs from them, Macarthur Christmas Vaifanua, a/k/as "Mac" lured the victim to his home on August 13, 2017. As the victim was leaving the residence, he was led instead into the garage where he was forcibly bound and gagged. The victim was then b... More...    $0 (11-22-2022 - AK)

Anchorage, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, attempted distribution of methamphetamine and cocaine, maintaining a place for drug purposes and illegally possessing firearms.

Antoine Lapoleon Davis, aka “Shorty,â€� 49, trafficked large amounts of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine to ... More...    $0 (05-19-2022 - AK)

Anchorage, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sex trafficking a minor and production and possession of child pornography.

Jayshon Moore, aka “China,â€� 39, began having sexual encounters with the minor victim when she was 15 years old. In 2018, he created numerous sexually explicit videos of the minor which were saved on social media. Moore possessed two v... More...    $0 (04-19-2022 - AK)

Anchorage, Alaska criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

On July 31, 2020 Ronald Fetuao Maefau, 45, drove a car to an Anchorage apartment complex and began firing multiple rounds into one of the units. He then proceeded to drive away. Later the same day, APD made a traffic stop of the car used in the apartment shooting and to... More...    $0 (01-09-2022 - AK)

Fairbanks, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with stalking and attempting to arrange a murder for hire.

According to court documents and evidence presented at his sentencing, Roger Keeling, 55, devised and solicited a murder for hire plot targeting his former girlfriend while he was in custody on stalking charges. He was indicted in January 2021 and found guilt... More...    $0 (11-22-2021 - AK)

Juneau, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Kenneth Manzanares, 43, who was charged with second-degree murder of Kristy Manzanares while onboard the Emerald Princess cruise ship in the U.S. Territorial Waters outside southeast Alaska on July 25, 2017.

“In 2017 Kenneth Manzanares brutally murdered his wife Kristy Manzanares while on an Alaskan cruise with their three da... More...    $0 (06-03-2021 - AK)

Anchorage, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with possession of child porn.

Stuart Ravn, 33, of Anchorage was charged wiht possession of more than 5,744 unique images and videos of child pornography on his computer.

In issuing the sentence, U.S. Chief District Judge Timothy M. Burgess noted that the possession of these images perpetually victimizes the ... More...    $0 (04-29-2021 - AK)

Anchorage, Alaska armed robbery charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Cloyd Lacap Jr., 22, who was charged for robbing two individuals at gun point after arranging to meet them for the supposed purpose of purchasing items each had listed for sale online.

The first robbery took place in the parking lot of Balto Seppala Park in Anchorage where Lacap had arranged to meet th... More...    $0 (04-13-2021 - AK)

Anchorage, Alaska firearm felony criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Ralph Norman Wells, 39, of Fairbanks, was charged with being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm and Possession of Controlled Substance with the Intent to Distribute.

According to Court documents, on April 2, 2020, a business owner reported a suspicious vehicle loitering in the parking lot. Alaska State Troope... More...    $0 (02-11-2021 - AK)

Anchorage, Alaska criminal defense health care fraud lawyer represented Dr. Michael Don Robertson, age 68, a former Anchorage psychiatrist, was charged with conspiracy to commit controlled substance fraud and one count of health care fraud. Robertson knowingly and intentionally distributed controlled substances outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical pur... More...    $0 (01-09-2021 - AK)

Anchorage, AK - Drug trafficking criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Brian James Tepner, 48, of Fairbanks, Alaska, who was charged possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and for being a felon in possession of a stolen firearm.

At 3:30 a.m. on March 22, 2019, Tepner was found slumped over in the driver’s seat of a vehicle parked at a Sourdough Fuel station in Fairb... More...    $0 (12-19-2020 - AK)

Juneau, Alaska firearm felony criminal defense lawyer represented defendant, Herman Joseph Brown, III, who was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.

On July 16, 2020, Brown pleaded guilty to the federal charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Ketchikan Police Department received multiple reports alleging many postal parcels from ... More...    $0 (12-09-2020 - AK)

Anchorage, Alaska - Armed robbery criminal defense lawyer charged with bank rubbery and discharging a firearm during separate violent crimes on June 1, 2019, and June 15, 2019.

As part of a plea agreement, Kek Nyathor Bol, age 22, admitted to entering a Cash America store on Gambell Street in Anchorage on June 1, 2019, with a Glock pistol. He fired a shot into the ceiling, threatened to ... More...    $0 (11-19-2020 - AK)

Anchorage, Alaska felony firearm possession charge criminal defense lawyer represented Justine J. Seley, age 36, with bing in possession of a registered firearm by an unregistered person.

According to court documents, on October 23, 2018, Seley possessed 7 rifles, 2 handguns and a receiver. All firearms were seized. One of the seized firearms was a short barreled DSA ZM4 .300 caliber ... More...    $0 (10-29-2020 - AK)

Anchorage, Alaska Lacey Act crime criminal defense lawyer represented defendant.

A North Pole man was charged with 32 violations of the Lacey Act and other federal laws stemming from a 16 year span of submitting fraudulent Federal Subsistence Permit Applications and subsequent illegal hunting and transporting of wildlife in a Federal Subsistence Area located south of Delta Junction, Alask... More...    $0 (10-17-2020 - AK)

Anchorage, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with felony gun possession.

John-Rexie Lagman, 23, of Anchorage was with illegally possessing a firearm within a designated school zone.

On July 2, 2019, two teenagers involved in a social medial dispute planned to fight at Williwaw Elementary School, recruiting friends to join them. The dispute turned viole... More...    $0 (09-29-2020 - AK)

Kenneth Ray Manzanares, 42, of Santa Clara, Utah, pleaded guilty to one count of murder in the second degree for the July 2017 killing of his wife, Kristy Manzanares, onboard the cruise ship Emerald Princess in the U.S. Terri... More...    $0 (02-09-2020 - AK)

Anchorage, AK - The United States of America charged Dwayne Dollison, Jr. and Kenneth Martin Douglas with:

21:846 DRUG TRAFFICKING CONSPIRACY
(1)
21:846 & 841(a)(1) DRUG TRAFFICKING CONSPIRACY
(1s) Count 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s: 180 months imprisonment; 8 years supervised release; $400 special assessment. (2)
21:841(a)(1)&(b)(1)(B)&(b)(1)(C) POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBST... More...    $0 (11-19-2019 - AK)

Anchorage, AK - The United States of America charged Matthew James Scharber with conspiracy to commit kidnapping, kidnapping, carjacking, possessing, brandishing and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime involving violence.
... More...    $0 (11-19-2019 - AK)