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United States of America v. James Capers

New York, New York - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”), conspiracy to distribute narcotics, and murder through the use of a firearm during a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime charges.



At trial, Capers explicitly c... More...
   $0 (12-31-2021 - NY)

United States of America v. Lawrence Savoca

New York, New York - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with conspiratorial and attempted Hobbs Act robbery; discharging a firearm during a crime of violence; and being a felon in possession of a
firearm charges.



Lawrence Savoca, an inmate incarcerated for a 2004 conviction for
3 conspiratorial and attempted... More...
   $0 (12-30-2021 - NY)

United States of America v. John T. Earnest

San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with Obstruction of Hate Crimes, including Free Exercise of Religious Beliefs, Attempted Damage to Religious Property, and Using and Carrying a Firearm During and In Relation to a Crime of Violence.

John T. Earnest, a California man who entered the Chabad of Poway on April 27, 2019, opened fire and killed one woma... More...
   $0 (12-28-2021 - CA)

United States of America v. JASON MITCHELL ABBO

Denver, CO - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a felon in possession of a firearm charge. His counsel filed in the district court a motion to vacate his sentence, u



On June 25, 2016, relying on
Samuel Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), his counsel filed in the district
court a m... More...
   $0 (12-18-2021 - CO)

United States of America v. Eric Goodall

San Francisco, CA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with o two counts of conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence charges.



I. Goodall and his crew rob a series of stores in Las
Vegas.
In a span of two months, Eric Go... More...
   $0 (12-17-2021 - CA)

United States of America v. RILEY BRIONES, JR.

San Francisco, CA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with murder charge.

We must decide whether a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole imposed on a juvenile is valid



Riley Briones, Jr., a Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian,
was a founder and leader of the “Eastside Crips R... More...
   $0 (12-13-2021 - CA)

United States of America v. Blair Cook

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a
being an unlawful user of a controlled substance (marijuana) in possession of a firearm and ammunition charges.


A jury convicted Blair Cook of being
an unlawful user of a controlled substance (marijuana) in
possession of a firearm and ammunition.... More...
   $0 (12-12-2021 - IL)

State of Oklahoma v. Nathaniel Robert Chilcoat

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder in violation of 21 O.S. 701.7, which provides:

A. A person commits murder in the first degree when that person unlawfully and with malice aforethought causes the death of another human being. Malice is that deliberate intention unlawfully to take away the life of a human being, which is manife... More...
   $0 (12-08-2021 - OK)

United States of America v. Robert Doggart -

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with one count of transmitting a threat to kill or injure someone in interstate commerce.



In 2014, Doggart, a nuclear engineer and former congressional candidate, became
convinced that an Islamic community in New York, self-identified as “Islamberg,... More...
   $0 (12-05-2021 - OH)

United States of America v. Jorge Hiram Báez-Martínez

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with possession of a firearm charge.



In 2012, Báez-Martínez was convicted at a jury trial for
being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C.
§ 922(g)(1). The unobjected-to Presentence Investigation Report
("PSR") included the... More...
   $0 (11-23-2021 - MA)

United States of America v. HÉCTOR GARCÍA-CARTAGENA, a/k/a/ Arana

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with possessing drugs with intent to distribute and domestic abuse charge.se



Let's start with the basics. To recommend sentences for
supervised release violators, the United States Sentencing
Guidelines rank new crimes with letter grades (A, B, and C). ... More...
   $0 (11-23-2021 - MA)

Reinaldo Santos v. United States of America

Atlanta, GA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a
unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon charge.



This case goes back in time a long way. In his most recent (and third) §
2255 petition, Reinaldo Santos challenges the application of an Armed Career
USCA11 Case: 1... More...
   $0 (11-21-2021 - GA)

United States of America v. JASON MITCHELL ABBO

Denver, CO - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.



After being convicted of being a felon in possession of a
firearm, Mr. Abbo was sentenced to a 180-month term of imprisonment under the Armed
Career Criminal Act (ACCA). See 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1).... More...
   $0 (11-20-2021 - CO)

The People v. Christopher Ken Ireland

Santa Ana, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder.

Christopher Ken Ireland, age 42, from Huntington Beach, California was charged with two counts of first-degree murder for killing two women after a New Year's Eve party while his wife and son waited for him outside. Yolanda Hotrey, age 59, and Michelle Luke, age 49, were killed on Januar... More...
   $0 (11-17-2021 - cA)

State of Oklahoma v. Darius Lee Polk

Norman, OK: criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with arson in the third degree in violation of 21` O.S. 1403.

Count # 1. Count as Filed: ARS, ARSON third degree, in violation of 21 O.S. 1403
Date of Offense: 04/29/2016
Party Name Disposition Information
Polk, Darius Lee Disposed: DISMISSED, 06/01/2016. Dismissed by Court
Count as Disposed: ARSON thir... More...
   $0 (11-15-2021 - OK)

State of Pennsylvania v. Calvin Lorenzo Purdie, Jr.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with third-degree murder.

Calvin Purdie, age 35, was charged with third-degree murder for killing Charlotte Chaplin, age 49, in 2019, who was strangled to death and whose body was set on fire. He was charged with murder and arson.

The Defendant's DNA was found under the victim's fingernails.... More...
   $0 (11-12-2021 - IL)

United States of America v. Shawn Quinnones

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with
two counts of armed bank robbery chargee.



Shawn Shannon Quinnones pleaded guilty to two
counts of armed bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C.
§§ 2113(a), (d) and § 2. She also stipulated that her
commission of an armed robbery o... More...
   $0 (11-12-2021 - PA)

United States of America v. Joshua Reshi Dudley

Atlanta, GA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a possessing a firearm as a convicted felon charge.



Joshua Dudley pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, in
violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). The district court imposed the Armed Career
Criminal Act’s (“ACCA”) sentencin... More...
   $0 (11-09-2021 - GA)

United States of America v. Leon Carter

Atlanta, GA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a possessing a firearm after having previously been convicted of a felony charge.



Leon Carter pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm after having previously
been convicted of a felony in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). The sentencing
court c... More...
   $0 (11-09-2021 - GA)

United States of America v. Roosevelt Coats, III

Atlanta, Georgia - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with
a being a felon in possession of a firearm charge.



Defendant was arrested in 2017 on state drug and weapons charges after
making several controlled drug sales to a confidential informant (“CI”). The
transactions between Defendant and... More...
   $0 (11-07-2021 - GA)

Fred Somers v. United States of America

Atlanta, Georgia - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a aggravated assault charge.



In Somers v. United States, 799 F. App’x 691 (11th Cir. 2020) (“Somers I”),
issued on January 14, 2020, we affirmed the district court’s denial of appellant
Fred Somers’s 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vac... More...
   $0 (11-07-2021 - GA)

United States of America v. ERIC GOODALL

San Francisco, CA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant
with seeking to vacate his conviction and sentence for brandishing a firearm in relation to a crime of violence charge.



Goodall and his crew rob a series of stores in Las Vegas.



In a span of two months, Eric... More...
   $0 (11-01-2021 - CA)

United States of America v. Vanessa Faith Prettyontop, a/k/a Vanessa Faith Gunshows

Billings, MT: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with arson.

Vanessa Faith Prettyontop, also known as Vanessa Faith Gunshows, 34, was indicted for burning down a house on the Crow Indian Reservation in 2020.

In court documents filed in the case, the government alleged that on Oct. 3, 2020, Prettyontop started a fire in a house owned by the victim, identified as... More...
   $0 (10-29-2021 - MT)

State of Oklahoma v. Devin and Montre Wilson

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with first-degree murder in violation of 21 O.S. 701.7.

Brothers Devin Michael Wilson, age 18, and Montre' Laron Wilson, age 36, were accused of killing Tyler Lee Collins during a robbery. The defendants went to the apartment where Collins live under the guise of buying drugs on December 30, 2019 but intended to rob ... More...
   $0 (10-25-2021 - OK)

United States of America v. LAWRENCE CHRISTOPHER FIX

New Orleans, LA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant
with a felon in possession of a firearm charge.



In May 2000, Fix was indicted in the instant
federal proceeding for being a felon in
possession of a firearm. He and the government stipulated to hisfelony conviction for arson and to the factssu... More...
   $0 (10-24-2021 - LA)

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