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United States of America v. Alfredo Gonzalez-Pelaez

Bangor, Maine, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with with illegal reentry after removal. Alfredo Gonzalez-Pelaez, 42, was encountered by a Border Patrol agent conducting a field inspection. Gonzalez-Pelaez acknowledged to the officer that he was an alien who had illegally entered the United States years earlier. Immigration records showed that he had previously been rem

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United States of America v. Geison Reynoso

Burlington, Vermont, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and cocaine base. From 2023 until April 25, 2024, Geison Reynoso, 27, of Springfield, Massachusetts, and Davon Lee, age 26, also of Springfield, engaged in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and cocaine base in Rutland County, Vermont. In February 2024, law enforcement seized tw

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State of Vermont v. Michael Merrick

Moretown, Vermont, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant, Michael Merrick, age 27, of Bedford, Massachusetts, who was charged with DUI.

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United States of America v. David Guimond

Concord, New Hampshire, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a scheme to falsify Country of Origin declarations to avoid Section 301 duties owed on products of Chinese origin. David Guimond, the former Chief Operating Officer of MGI International, LLC was charged by criminal information with engaging in a conspiracy to smuggle goods into the United States. In 2021

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State of Georgia v. Quteavis Quayshon Simmons

Macon, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant, Quteavis Quayshon Simmons, age 30, charged with malice murdering Harriett Patrickin 2021. “Harriett Patrick was an innocent woman who had her life stolen from her,” said District Attorney R. Howard. “This senseless act of violence took a devoted wife, loving mother, proud veteran, and breast cancer survivor from her family

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State of Georgia v. D’Michael Jenkins

Macon, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant, D’Michael Jenkins, age 22, charged with murder. for killing Ashanti Macon, age 30.

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State of Alabama v. Christian Robinson

Birmingham, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant, Chistian Robinson, age 21, and a 17-year-old girl, charged with murder.

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United States of America v. Arsenio Hall

Montgomery, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, a synthetic cannabinoid, and marijuana. Law enforcement began investigating suspected drug-trafficking activity in Montgomery County in late 2024. As part of that investigation, investigators with th

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United States of America v. Johann Rainer Nix

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with production of child sexual abuse material. Nix used social media platforms to entice minors to send him sexually explicit images of themselves. “Johann Rainer Nix used popular social media platforms to lure and exploit minors,” said Theodore S. Hertzberg. “Parents should monitor their children’s social me

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United States of America v. Nicole Marie Purkey

Tulsa, OklaHoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possession of Methamphetamine with Intent to Distribute.

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United States of America v. Kevin Lee Barton

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.

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Earth to Go, Inc. v. City of Richland

Camdenton, Missouri, commercial litigation lawyers represented the parties in a breach of contract case involving a leaky roof.

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United States of America v. Phyllis Chrstmas Henson, aka Phyliss Henson

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession or a firearm and possession of meth.

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State of Florida v. John Doe

Orlando, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with manslaughter. A 15-year-old boy shot and killed Emony Nicole Jackson, age 13, who was found with a gunshot wound, and she was taken to the hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries,

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United States of America v. Demetric Antwan Swinton

Orlando, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing methamphetamine. The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office used a confidential source to conduct two controlled purchases of more than a pound of methamphetamine each from Demetric Antwan Swinton, ate 39, of Cocoa, Flrida, after he was identified as a methamphetamin

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State of Florida v. Slemons Anthony Graves

Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with armed robbery and battery with prejudice. Slemons Graves, age 33, is accused of directing an antisemitic slur at a Jewish day school teacher, then slapping her in the back of the head and spitting in her face before stealing her cellphone.

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United States of America v. Ryan Clifford Goldberg and Kevin Martin

Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiring to obstruct, delay or affect commerce through extortion in connection with ransomware attacks occurring in 2023. Ryan Goldberg, 40, of Georgia, Kevin Martin, 36, of Texas, and another co-conspirator successfully deployed the ransomware known as ALPHV BlackCat between April 2023 and December 2023 agains

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State of New York v. Durran Morgan

Brooklyn, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. On May 27, 2023, at approximately 9:13 p.m., Durran Morgan, age 41, and numerous relatives gathered at their St. Albans family home. The defendant and 25-year-old Chevaughn Millings fought over payment for the food. Millings, who was the defendant’s nephew, and another guest pushed the defendant out of

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State of New York v. Nicole Boodhai

Brooklyn, New York criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant, Nicole Boodhai, 28, charged with murder and endangering the welfare of a child. Officer responding to a 911 call found Charlie Ramraykha, in the bath room of the Defendant's apartment.

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State of Alabama v. Brooke Shoemaker

Opelika, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant, Brooke Shoemaker, charged with chemical endangerment of a child resulting in death. The Defendant was charged after she suffered a stillbirth.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Hedweens Quetant

Dedham, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant, Hedweens Quetant, 21, charged with manslaughter. Witnesses told Massachusetts State Police that they saw the 2019 Honda Civic driven by the defendant crash into the 2018 Chevrolet Tahoe driven by the victim on I-93 North near Exit 6 in Braintree. Quetant was driving with his headlights off at a speed in excess of 100

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Hedweens Quetant

Dedham, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant, Stefon Diggs, was charged with assault and battery with attempted strangulation.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Stefon Diggs

Dedham, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant, Stefon Diggs, who is charged with with felony strangulation or suffocation and misdemeanor assault and battery involving a dispute with his personal chef.

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Jennifer Votaw v. State Farm Fire and Casulty Company

Mobile, Alabama insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a bad faith breach on insurance contract theory. AI Overview Alabama's bad faith insurance law allows policyholders to sue insurers who unreasonably deny or delay valid claims, requiring a contract breach and no "reasonably debatable" reason for denial, opening insurers to damages beyond policy limits, including punit

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United States of America v. Erika Day

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with methamphetamine possession with intent to distribute and firearm use attendant to a drug crime. In her written plea agreement with the government, Erika Kelley Day provided an undisputed factual resume. Deputies with the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office arrested Day in a drug bust after the Office received a tip tha

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State of Oklahoma v. Melvin Tyrone Perry

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with First Degree Murder, Robbery with a Dangerous Weapon, Kidnapping, Second Degree Burglary, and Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle, all After Former Conviction of Two or More Felonies. Melvin Tyrone Perry, appellant, was convicted of First Degree Murder, Robbery with a Dangerous Weapon, Kidnapping, Second Deg

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State of Oklahoma v. Russell Gene Stiles

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first degree robbery and murder in the first degree. Russell Gene Stiles, appellant, was convicted of First Degree Robbery and Murder in the First Degree, in the District Court of Tulsa County, Case No. CRF-85-3251, sentenced to two hundred (200) years imprisonment and the death penalty, respectively, and appeals. T

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State of Oklahoma v. Danny R. Dawkins

Holdenville, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first degree manslaugter and unlawful possession of sawed-of shotgun. ¶1 Danny Ray Dawkins was tried by jury and convicted of Count I, First Degree Manslaughter in violation of 21 O.S. § 711,1 and Count II, Unlawful Possession of a Sawed-Off Shotgun, in violation of 21 O.S.2001, § 1289.18, after former conv

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State of Oklahoma v. James Charles childress

Sallisaw, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first degree murder, and larceny of a domestic animal. ¶1 James Charles Childress was tried by a jury in the District Court of Sequoyah County, Case No. CF 96-292, before the Honorable John C. Garrett, District Judge. Appellant was found guilty of first degree murder (Count 1), in violation of 21 O.S.Supp.1997,

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State of Oklahoma v. Donald Lee Gibson

Norman, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with frist-degree murder, injury to a minor child, conspiracy to unlawfully removed a dead body, and unlawful removal of a dead body. ¶1 Appellant Donald Lee Gilson was tried by jury for First Degree Murder (21 O.S.1991, § 701.7(C)), Case No. CF-96-245; five counts of Injury to a Minor Child (10 O.S.Supp.1995, § 711

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State of Oklahoma v. Kenneth Ray Kinchion

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Commit a Felony, Robbery with a Dangerous Weapon and ; First Degree Murder; Robbery with a Dangerous Weapon and Felonious Possession of a Firearm. ¶1 Appellant Kenneth Ray Kinchion was tried by jury and found guilty of Conspiracy to Commit a Felony, Robbery with a Dangerous Weapon (Counts 1 a

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State of Oklahoma v. Eric Jose Barnett

Okmulgee, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second degree felony murder. ¶1 Eric Jose Barnett, Appellant, was tried by jury and found guilty of second degree felony murder, in violation of 21 O.S.2001, § 701.8(2), in the District Court of Okmulgee County, Case No. CF-2009-2.1 The jury sentenced Appellant to twenty-three (23) years imprisonment. The Honor

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State of Oklahoma v. Johns William Malaske

Ponca City, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony murder. ¶1 Appellant, John William Malaske, was tried by jury in the District Court of Kay County, Case Number CF-2001-221, and convicted of Second Degree (Felony) Murder, in violation of 21 O.S.1991, § 701.8 (2). The jury set punishment at ten (10) years imprisonment, and the trial judge sentenced Ap

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State of Washington v. John Doe

Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented John Doe, age 47, charged with shooting a woman in Seattle’s Chinatown–International District.

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State of Washington v. Zachary C.Kelty

Spokane, Washington crimicriminal defense lawyer represented Zachary C. Kelty, age 38, was charged with raping and molesting a family member.

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State of Oregon v. Darryl Anthony Pearson

Oregon City, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represented the Darryl Anthony Pearson, 36, charged with Attempted Sexual Abuse in the First Degree.

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State of Idaho v. Elvin Elgardo Ramos-Caballero

Boise, Idaho, criminal defense lawyer represents Elvin Elgardo Ramos-Caballero, a criminal illegal alien from Honduras, was involved in an accident that killed 8-year-old Mora Gerety in Boise, Idaho.

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State of Montana v.

Bozeman, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represents Ayden Sakary Klompien charged with robbery and criminal possession of dangerous drugs. The Defendant is accused of robbing a man in the bathroom of in Town Pump in Belgrade.

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State of Utah v. Macaila Jaye Jenkins

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Macaila Jaye Jenkins, age 25, charged with two counts of burglary, criminal mischief and two counts of theft valued from $1,500 to $4,999.

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State of Colorado v. Kimberlee Singler

Colorado Springs, Colorado, criminal defense lawyer represent Kimberlee Singler, age 37, charged with two counts apiece of first-degree murder and murder on a child victim under the age of 12 in the Dec. 19, 2023, deaths of two of her three children, as well as attempted first-degree murder and third-degree felony assault on a third child who survived “significant injury” inflicted by her moth

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State of Kansas v. Damon Leonard

Kansas City, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. Damon Leonard, 47, of Pleasanton, Kansas, with murder, interference of law enforcement, criminal desecration and having a vicious dog at large.

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United States of America v. Gabino Trujillo

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Unlawful Reentry of a Removed Alien. Gabino Trujillo was previously removed from the United States on three separate occasions. In March 2015, he was removed after receiving a five-year suspended sentence in State Court for possessing a controlled substance and obstructing an officer. Seventeen days after being remo

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United States of America v. Dashea G. “Baby Cherry” Henderson

Wichita, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking Dashea G. “Baby Cherry” Henderson, 38, of Wichita admitted to his part in a drug trafficking network to distribute fentanyl. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigated the case.

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United States of America v. Jorge Saavedra-Delgado

Cheyenne, Wyoming, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal reentry into the U.S. On June 28, 2025, Saavedra-Delgado, 42, of Zamora, Michoacán, Mexico, a citizen of Mexico, was contacted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while he was in the Lincoln County Jail after being arrested on state charges for interference with a peace officer and other offens

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United States of America v. Ikponmwosa Erhinmwinrose

Denver, Colorado, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with six counts of wire fraud, three counts of aggravated identity theft, one count of wire fraud conspiracy, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Ikponmwosa Erhinmwinrose, 39, of Atlanta, Georgia, and other conspirators in his fraud ring stole more than $7.6 million in government benefits from the P

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United States of America v. Robert J. Padilla, Jr.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with orchestrating a retaliatory killing tied to a violent prison gang and for using violence and intimidation to protect an ongoing drug trafficking operation. Robert Padilla, 48, was an associate of the Syndicato de Nuevo Mexico (SNM), a prison-based gang whose members and associates engaged in murder, drug tr

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United States of America v. Halee Ann Mehlbauer

Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraudulently obtained approximately $177,030 in COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loans, along with her codefendant, Timothy Lopez, which they did not qualify for. She was also sentenced to two years’ supervised release and ordered by the court to pay $177,030 in restitution, of which $48,507 is to be

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United States of America v. Heidi Cafirma

Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with filing false tax returns and wire fraud related to her fraudulent application for unemployment assistance due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For tax years 2016 through 2020, Heidi Cafirma, 50, of Waipahu, Hawaii, filed false federal tax returns with the IRS for her and her spouse that underreported their business incom

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United States of America v. Willie Lewis Wilson Jr.

Fairbanks, Alaska, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances in Fairbanks. Willie Lewis Wilson Jr., 41, of Madison, Florida, conspired with others to operate a drug trafficking organization in Fairbanks. Wilson was the leader of the organization and set up several residences for his co-conspirators to sell cocaine and methamphe

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United States of America v. Tori Lee Hutzenbieler

Billings, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing methamphetamine and fentanyl. In May 2023, law enforcements officers learned from a source of information that Tori Lee Hutzenbieler, 46, was selling drugs in the Billings area. The source said Hutzenbieler concealed drugs in a trap compartment inside her Toyota Camry. Law enforcement learned through

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United States of America v. Aaron Jacob Balcom

Boise, Idaho, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing child sexual abuse material. The investigation of Aaron Jacob Balcom, 28, of Caldwell, began when Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”) received CyberTip reports from an online messaging platform. A CyberTip is a report submitted to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (“NCMEC”

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United States of America v. Kenneth H. Crause

Spokane, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possession with Intent to Deliver 400 Grams or More of Fentanyl. The Spokane Police Department Special Investigations Unit had an active drug trafficking investigation into Kenneth H. Crause, age 55, who was already on federal supervision for a prior drug trafficking conviction. Based on that investigation offi

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United States of America v. Tamara King, aka Tamara Waln

Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and multiple counts of wire fraud, money laundering, and tax fraud. Between August 2009 and December 2013, Tamara Kind, aka Tamara Waln, 56, of Toledo, Ohio, previously resided in Bellevue and Kirkland, Washington, solicited investments in a real estate fund called Halcyon. Twenty-two victims, most of

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Randey Thompson v. Central Valley School District No. 365, et al.

Spokane, Washington, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on retaliation in violation of the First Amendment theory. Thompson was placed on paid administrative leave and subsequently transferred to a teaching position as a result of his posting on Facebook a comment about the Democratic National Convention that used epithets, slurs, and violent language.

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Employees at the Clark Couonty Government Center and/or its Property v. Monsanto Company, et al.

Las Vegas, Nevada personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on exposure to toxic wastes. Plaintiffs originally brought this case in Nevada state court alleging that some of the waste dumped at the site contained polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and that the former Monsanto Company (Old Monsanto) manufactured more than 99 percent of all PCBs sold in the United States. Old Mons

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United States of America v. Ramesh "Sunnty" Balwani and Elizabeth A. Homes

San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charge with fraud. Elizabeth Holmes’s and Ranesh “Sunny” Balwani’s defrauding investors out of $452 by lying about Theranos’s blood-testing technology. The Indictment further alleged that Holmes and Balwani devised a scheme to defraud patients through advertisements and marketing materials boasting abou

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United States of America v. Adan C. Hernandez-Mayoral

Seattle, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with committing a hate crime involving bodily injury and a dangerous weapon for his attack on a Black bus rider. On March 7, 2024, Hernandez-Mayoral, age 24, made derogatory comments about Black people while he was riding a King County Metro bus. When a Black woman on the bus looked to see who was making racist comm

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State of Oklahoma v. K.C.

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer Keaton Taylor represented the Defendant charged with larceny of merchandise in violation of 21 O.S. 1731, which provides: A. Larceny of merchandise held for sale in retail or wholesale establishments shall be punishable as follows: 1. For the first or second conviction, in the event the value

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United States of America v. Alexandru Telescu and Aramis Manolea,

Portland, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with 26-counts of conspiracy to defraud the United States, access device fraud, possession, production, and trafficking of device-making equipment, and aggravated identity theft. beginning in April 2025, Telescu and Manolea, along with others, conspired to use stolen Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) account informatio

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The People of the State of California v. Sergio Alvarado

San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with rape and sexual assault. Sergio Alvarado, age 60, exually assaulted the first victim, a relative, repeatedly over a period of several months. Several years later, Mr. Alvarado assaulted the other victim, a 16-year-old relative, in his car after he offered to drive her to a job interview. The case against

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