Alaska First Amendment Law
<h2> <center> United States of America v. Detallion Owens </h2> </center>
Anchorage, Alaska, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(8). Digested 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 November 2024, Detallion Owens, 29, violently assaulted a domestic partner while a child was... More...
$ (07-30-2026 - AK)<h2> <center> State of Alaska v. Loren J. Larson, Jr. </h2> </center>
Fairbanks, Alaska, pro se litigation acting without a lawyer sought post-conviction relief for conviction on two counts of first-degree murder and one county of first-degree burglary. 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>... More...
$ (06-24-2026 - AK)<H2> State of Alaska v. Isaac Silulu Lobendahn
Anchorage, Alaska, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of first-degree sexual assault against C.A.<br> <br> ... More...
$0 (10-29-2025 - AK)State of Alaska v. Joshua Wahl
Anchorage, Alaska, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with multiple counts of first- and second-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Jennifer Gardiner and Timothy Evans. <br> <br> After several bail hearings, Wahl remains in custody pending trial. Wahl now appeals from the court's ruling at his most recent bail hearing declining to approve his proposed third-party... More...
$0 (11-07-2025 - AK)State of Alaska v. Deonte Gaskins
Anchorage, Alaska, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder.<br> <br> Deonte Gaskins, who was initially charged with evidence tampering on Oct. 18, was additionally charged with first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder. ... More...
$0 (10-29-2025 - AK)United States of America v. Jonathan Tylor Herra
Anchorage, Alaska, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of a child and possession and access with intent to view child pornography.<br> <br> Google A.I.<br> <br> Federal laws on child exploitation, primarily outlined in Chapter 110 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code, define and impose severe penalties for crimes such as producing and distributing child porno... More...
$0 (10-29-2025 - AK)State of Alaska v. Mark D. Huntington
Nanana, Alaska, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexually abusing a minor in April of 2019.<br> <br> Mark Huntington, age 42, of Galena for sexually abusing a minor in April of 2019. Immediately following the return of the jury's guilty verdict, Mr. Huntington stipulated to an aggravating factor – that he was 10 or more years older than the victim he was con... More...
$0 (03-19-2021 - AK)United States of America v. James Michael Wells
Anchorage, Alaska, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murdering two co-workers at a U.S.<br> Coast Guard maintenance facility.<br> <br> This case concerns the extent to which the funds in a federal retirement savings account, known as a Thrift<br> Savings Plan ("TSPâ€) account,1 are available to compensate crime victims under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act<... More...
$0 (09-27-2025 - AK)State of Alaska v. Chue Yang
Anchorage, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder.<br> <br> On Nov. 3, 2019, just after midnight, Chue Yang called a family member to report that his wife, Nancy, was dead. The couple had been at a nearby family party that evening, and Nancy, 29, had left the party without Yang less than an hour before the shooting. When Nancy left the party, she threatened to... More...
$0 (08-27-2025 - AK)Jean Kashikov v. Kristi Noem
Anchorage, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with<br> <br> Appeal of a Deportation Order<br> <br> This case was one of numerous lawsuits challenging the Trump administration's abrupt termination of immigration visas—mostly student or work visas—with no notice to the visa-holders and with dubious or no legal basis. You can see all of the cases here.<br> ... More...
$0 (05-19-2025 - AK)<h1> United States of America v. Kevin Shank </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Fairbanks, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing kilograms of illegal drugs with intent to distribute </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Fairbanks man sentenced to over 14 years for possessing kilograms of illegal drugs with intent to distribute </h2></center></b></b> </h2></... More...
$0 (02-20-2025 - AK)<h1> United States of America v. Kyle Cozens </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Fairbanks, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of receipt of child pornography. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Eielson Airman sentenced to 5 years for possessing child pornography</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> On Nov. 7, 2023, Kyle Cozens, 32, who was ... More...
$0 (02-20-2025 - AK)<h1> United States of America v. Heide Goodermote </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Fairbanks, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interfering with joint military operations </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Delta Junction woman sentenced for interfering with joint military operations with a high-powered laser</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> On Feb.... More...
$0 (02-20-2025 - AK)<h1> United States of America v. Benjamin Roundy, aka “Aleks†</h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Anchorage, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempting to coerce and entice a minor </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Anchorage man sentenced to over 11 years for attempting to coerce a minor</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> In early July 2023, Benjamin Roundy, ak... More...
$0 (02-18-2025 - AK)State of Alaska v. Chue Yang
Anchorage, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder.<br> <br> AS11.41.100(a)(1)(A): Murder 1-Intent To Cause Death<br> <br> Chue Yang was accused of shooting and killing his wife in 2019.<br> <br> He claimed he was showing her how to use the gun when it went off.... More...
$0 (02-04-2025 - AK)State of Alaska v. Ernest William Butler
<h2><br> Anchorage, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with "one count of first-degree burglary, one count of second-degree assault, and one count of fifthdegree criminal mischief after he assaulted Mary Ahnangnatoguk..." <br> </h2><br> <br> Ernest William Butler was convicted, following a jury trial, of one count of first-degree burglary, one count of second-degree a... More...
$0 (11-15-2024 - AK)Joel Farwell Benett v. State of Alaska
<h2><br> Juneau, Alaska civil litigation lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking an declaratory judgment.<br> </h2><br> <br> Environmental advocates brought suit challenging the State of Alaska, Department of Fish &Game's (ADF&G's) decision to open the 2020-2021 wolf harvest on Prince of Wales Island. The advocates alleged that in light of a 2019 change in ADF&G's game management plan, and a reco... More...
$0 (10-23-2024 - Ak)In the Matter of the Estate of Paul Arthur Bentley
<h2><br> Anchorage, Alaska probate lawyers represented the estate and surviving spouse in a well dispute.<br> </h2><br> <br> Paul Bentley and Eleanor Haynes first married in 1989 in Washington and divorced a few years later. They did not have children together. After their divorce, they remained in contact. Haynes later remarried, but Bentley did not.<br> <br> After Haynes divorced her se... More...
$0 (09-20-2024 - AK)United States of America v. Christopher James Nickalaskey
<h2><br> Anchorage, Alaska felon in possession of firearms criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant.<br> <h2><br> <br> The indictment, filed in February 2024, charges Christopher James Nickalaskey ("Nickalaskeyâ€) with two counts of being a felon in possession of firearms[1]and two criminal forfeiture allegations.[2] Dkt. 2. Nickalaskey moved to dismiss the indictment based on the Ni... More...
$0 (09-10-2024 - AK)State of Alaska v. Denali Brehmer
Anchorage, Alaksa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first degree murder.<br> <br> Denali Brehmer pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson accepted Brehmer's guilty plea.<br> <br> The charges stem from the June 2, 2019, murder of 19-year-old Cynthia Hoffman near Thunderbird Falls in Chugiak, Alaska. Brehmer admitted th... More...
$0 (02-15-2024 - AK)Jerry Gene Lymburner v. Ashley Lee Axhelm, f/k/a Ashley Lee
Fairbanks, Alaska family law lawyer represented the parties seeking a divorce.<br> <br> <br> A married couple divorced after roughly five years of marriage. They disagreed about custody of their three children, the valuation of a real estate business, whether the business was marital or separate property, the distribution of the marital property, and the amount of child support payments. The trial... More...
$0 (10-25-2023 - AK)State of Alaska v. Mrvin Roberts
<br> Fairbanks, Alaska: Marvin L. Roberts was convicted of second-degree murder, first-degree robbery, and second-degree assault.<br> <br> On Ocboer 11, 1997, 15-year-old John Hartman was beaten and sexually assaulted. He died on October 12, 1997.<br> <br> Police arrested Engene Vent who allegedly confessed and identified Marvin Roberts, age 19, and others for assaulting Hartman.<br> <br> George... More...
$0 (12-31-1999 - AK)The Estate of Bishar Ali Hassan v. Municipality and City of Anchorage, et al.
Anchorage, Alaska civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants on excessive force wrongful death theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983.<br> <br> <br> Plaintiffs brought this suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985, and 1986 seeking redress for alleged violations of Plaintiffs' federal constitutional rights guaranteed by the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments.[51] The Court ha... More...
$0 (05-09-2023 - AK)United States of America v. Valeriy V. Gorbounov
Anchorage, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with violating the Lacey ACt by smuggling protected marine corals frm the Philippines.<br> <br> Veleriy V. Gorbounov, 45, of Morrison, Colorado was illegally importing and selling endangered corals.<br> <br> In April, 2022, prosecutors charged Jerome Anthony Stringfield, 43, of Kissimmee, Florida; Albert B. Correira, 35, of We... More...
$0 (04-07-2023 - AK)United States of America v. Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corporation
Anchorage, Alaska criminal defense attorney represented Defendant charged with illegal disposal of hazardous waste.<br> <table><br> <h1><br> <center><br> <P><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Anchorage_AK_FED.jpg" alt="Federal Courthouse - Anchorage, Alaska"><br> <P><br> Federal Courthouse - Anchorage, Alaska</a><br> <P><br> <a font="red" href="https://w... More...
$0 (02-21-2023 - AK)Mechele K. Linehan v. State of Alaska
"The judge in a criminal jury trial plays a variety of important roles, including:<br> <br> 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)State of Alaska v. John T. Carlin, III
Anchorage, Alaska criminal law lawyers represented Defendant changed with first-degree murder.<br> <br> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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... More...
$0 (03-25-2011 - AK)State of Alaska v. Mechele K. Linehan, a/k/a Mechele Hughes
Anchoragee, Alaska criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder.<br> <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> 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)United States of America v. Matthew Wilson Moi, aka “Matt Mattâ€
Anchorage, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with drug conspiracy, money laundering, felony firearm possession and killing in furtherance of a continuing criminal enterprise.<br> <br> Matthew Wilson Moi, aka "Matt Matt,†36, was involved in a drug trafficking enterprise that operated in Alaska between January 2017 and October 2019. The enterprise arranged for packa... More...
$0 (03-16-2022 - AK)United States of America v. Wally Carter
Fairbanks, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sexually abusing a minor.<br> <br> Wally Carter, 62, was indicted by a federal grand jury in January 2021 and pleaded guilty in July to one count of human trafficking. Carter became the subject of a federal investigation in December 2020 when the FBI received a tip alleging a minor had been sexually abused by Carter appro... More...
$0 (12-16-2021 - AK)United States of America v. Kenneth Manzanares
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.<br> <br> "In 2017 Kenneth Manzanares brutally murdered his wife Kristy Manzanares while on an Alaskan cruise with their three daug... More...
$0 (06-03-2021 - AK)United States of America v. Cloyd Lacap, Jr.
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. <br> <br> 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)United States of America v. Robert John Albaugh
Anchorage, Alaska Lacey Act crime criminal defense lawyer represented defendant.<br> <br> 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)United States of America v. Kenneth Ray Manzanares
Anchorage, AK - The United States of America charged Kenneth Ray Manzanares with:<br> <br> First-Degree Murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. 7(1) and (8) and 1111(a).<br> <P><br> 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)David Thompson v. Heather Hebdon
We must decide whether an Alaska law regulating campaign contributions violates the First Amendment. At issue are Alaska’s limit on contributions made by individuals to candidates, its limit on contributions made by individuals to election-related groups, its limit on political party-to-candidate contributions, and its limit on the total funds a candidate may receive from out-of-state residents.... More...
$0 (11-29-2018 - AK)United States of America v. Paras Jha, Josiah White and Dalton Norman
Anchorage, AK - Hackers’ Cooperation with FBI Leads to Substantial Assistance in Other Complex Cybercrime Investigations<br> <br> Defendants Responsible for Creating the “Mirai” and Clickfraud Botnets Continue to Assist FBI as Part of their Sentencing<br> <br> Three defendants have been sentenced for their roles in creating and operating two botnets, which targeted “Internet of Things” (... More...
$0 (09-19-2018 - AK)United States of America v. Tony Laves Tueipi
Anchorage, AK - Anchorage Man Sentenced for Illegal Possession of Gun<br> <br> Tony Lavea Tueipi, 42, resident of Anchorage, was sentenced on July 31, 2018 by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason to 21 months in prison, followed by a three-year term of supervised release, for illegally possessing a gun with an obliterated serial number. As a result of his conviction, Tueipi, who is a native of W... More...
$0 (08-09-2018 - AK)United States of America v. Ronald Teekell
Anchorage, AK - Anchorage Man Sentenced for Distribution of Child Pornography<br> <br> Ronald Teekell, 53, of Anchorage, was sentenced July 18, 2018 by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess, to serve 97 months in prison, followed by a life term of supervised release, for the distribution of child pornography. <br> <br> According to court documents, Teekell was first brought to law enforce... More...
$0 (07-19-2018 - AK)Laur B. v. Wade B.
A father requested primary physical custody of his daughter, modifying the previous shared custody arrangement. The mother opposed the change, arguing there had not been a substantial change in circumstances. The superior court ordered a limited custody investigation to resolve a factual dispute related to the change in circumstances, promising a second hearing on the daughter’s best interests. ... More...
$0 (07-15-2018 - AK)State of Alaska v. Mark Anthony De Simone
Juneau, AK - The State of Alaska charged Mark Anthony De Simone with first-degree murder for killing Duilio Antonio "Tony" Rosales at a remote fishing cabin on a hunting and fishing trip in 2016.<br> <br> It was not disputed by Desimone shot Rosales, but he claimed it was an accident. <br> <br> Docket Entries:<br> <br> 05/16/2016 Initial Charging Document Initial Charging Document Filed<br> 05/17/... More...
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