Fort Worth, TX - Criminal Defense Attorney, Aggravated Assault


In 2018, Appellant Courtlyn Levine (aka Courtlyn Levinenewton) pleaded
guilty to the offense of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and the trial court
placed him on deferred adjudication community supervision. In 2019, the trial court
proceeded to adjudicate Appellant guilty and sentenced him to fourtee... More...   $0 (09-28-2020 - TX)

St. Paul, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with international sex trafficking.

Waralee Wanless, age 41, was charged with participation in an international sex trafficking organization that was responsible for coercing hundreds of Thai women to engage in commercial sex acts across the United States.

As proven at trial, the sex trafficking organiza... More...   $0 (09-28-2020 - MN)

Sioux City, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with receipt of child pornography.

Kyler Colten Cook, age 29, from Carroll, IA, pled guilty to receipt of child pornography.

In a plea agreement, Cook admitted that between February 8, 2019 and December 3, 2019, he knowingly received visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Wh... More...   $0 (09-28-2020 - IA)

Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with receipt of child pornography.

Michael James Hidlebaugh, age 38, of Perry, charged with Receipt of Child Pornography.

The investigation began in September 2017 when law enforcement received an investigative lead from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that images of child pornography ha... More...   $0 (09-28-2020 - IA)

Dr. My Tran and Dr. Ian Murray are dentists who owned a dental
practice known as Bird Rock Dental. Dr. Murray worked at the practice and
Dr. Tran handled the business operations through his own separate entity.
About two years after they formed the practice, they had financial disputes.
In the midst of these disputes, Dr. Tran accused Dr. Murray of substandard
dental work and ... More...   $0 (09-28-2020 - CA)

Patricia A., mother of three-year-old Samuel A., petitioned
pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code sections 388 and 3901
to set aside jurisdiction findings concerning Patricia’s alcohol
abuse and mental instability and to terminate dependency
jurisdiction after a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation found
Patricia was not mentally ill and did not meet the diagnostic
crit... More...   $0 (09-28-2020 - CA)

Appellants Corinna Reyes and Golden State Care Collective, Inc. (together,
“Reyes” or “appellants”), filed a complaint for malicious prosecution against property
owner Kim Kruger and Kim Kruger Trust (together, Kruger) and Kruger’s former
attorney, Todd Rothbard (Rothbard), for what Reyes contended was a wrongful eviction.
The trial court granted Kruger’s and Rothbard’s (together, ... More...   $0 (09-28-2020 - CA)

Fort Worth, TX - Criminal Defense Attorney, Assault


Pearson was accused of assaulting his former girlfriend, Marlie, by throwing a
tricycle at her, grabbing her face and neck and throwing her to the ground, and hitting
her with their car. Before trial, Pearson tried to subpoena documents related to
Marlie in the possession of One Safe Place, a local family-violence cente... More...   $0 (09-27-2020 - TX)

Fort Worth, TX - Criminal Defense Attorney, Aggravated Sexual Assault




A. THE INITIAL OUTCRY
Babin and Angela were married and had three children: Tina and twins Elaine
and Hope. They divorced when the twins were approximately eighteen months old;
Babin was given “extended standard” visitation rights to the three girls.
When Elaine was six and after she had... More...   $0 (09-27-2020 - TX)

Fort Worth, TX - Criminal Defense Attorney, Aggravated Assault


Appellant Keith Deshaun Mathews appeals his convictions for aggravated
assault with a deadly weapon and assault against a family or household member with a
previous conviction. See Tex. Penal Code Ann. §§ 22.01(b)(2)(A), .02(a)(2). The trial
court sentenced Mathews to 20 years’ imprisonment on each count to r... More...   $0 (09-27-2020 - TX)

Fort Worth, TX - Criminal Defense Attorney, Capital Murder


I. The murder
In December 2016, VanCleave decided to sell some of her jewelry, including two
gold chains and a gold ring, because she and her husband, Mustafah Zaatreh, were
struggling financially. Using the phone application 5miles, VanCleave listed the jewelry
and set up a meeting with a potential buyer, “J... More...   $0 (09-27-2020 - TX)

Denton, TX - Criminal Defense Attorney, Injury to a Child, Elderly or Disabled Individual


A. Madison’s Upbringing in Poland
This case stems from injuries that Madison sustained on August 9, 2016. About
one month after Madison was born, she was placed in a foster home in Poland as a
result of parental abuse and neglect. Approximately a year later, her birth mother had
... More...   $0 (09-27-2020 - TX)

Denton, TX, Criminal Defense Attorney, Driving While Intoxicated



A jury convicted Mark Ziegler of driving while intoxicated with an alcohol
concentration of 0.15 or more. See Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 49.04(a), (d). The trial
court sentenced Ziegler to a $200 fine and 270 days in jail and probated the jail
sentence for 16 months. In one issue, Ziegler argues that the t... More...   $0 (09-27-2020 - TX)

Montague, Texas, Criminal Defense Attorney, Manslaughter



I. The party
On the night of October 23, Sanders’s then-boyfriend Clint Mahin picked her
up from her workplace in Wichita Falls around 5:30 or 6:00 p.m. and they arrived at her
coworker’s house for a backyard barbecue around 6:15 p.m. At trial, accounts differed
as to how much Sanders had had to drink at ... More...   $0 (09-27-2020 - TX)

Louisville, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented Wyatt Lamar Williams, 26, who was charged with felony possession of a firearm.

Wyatt Lamar Williams, 26, of Louisville, Kentucky, who fired the shot that killed a 7-year old child on May 21, 2017 was charged with being wrongfully in possession of a firearm while he was addicted to or a user of a controlled substance on January 10, ... More...   $0 (09-27-2020 - kY)

Denton, TX - criminal defense attorney, misdemeanor evading arrest


Appellant Lucas Bertotti challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support
his conviction for misdemeanor evading arrest. We affirm.
In 2019, a postal inspector notified detectives that he had intercepted a package
with narcotics in it. Officers conducted a controlled delivery in which they allowed th... More...   $0 (09-25-2020 - TX)

Fort Worth, TX - criminal defense attorney, Continuous Sexual Abuse of Young Child or Children


Because Zurita does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to support
his CSA conviction, a detailed recitation of the facts is not necessary. For now, it is
enough to state that Zurita was indicted with the CSA of his stepdaughter, Darla
3
Grant,
1 occurring be... More...   $0 (09-25-2020 - TX)

New Orleans, LA - Criminal Defense Lawyer - Defendant charged with distribution of images depicting the sexual exploitation of children.

According to court documents, in about February 2020, a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation operating in an undercover capacity (Agent 1) in the State of Texas accessed a chat room within an instant messaging mobile application known t... More...   $0 (09-25-2020 - LA)

Texarkana, TX - Criminal Defense Lawyer - Defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute meth..

Justin Rashad Young, a 31-year-old rapper and club promotor known as “Band Aid,” was found guilty on June 25, 2020, of conspiring with Joshea Cardwell to traffic methamphetamine and marijuana in Texarkana following a four-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge Robert... More...   $0 (09-25-2020 - TX)