Excessive Force Law
 
State of Oklahoma v. Theodore Andry Cook

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unauthorized use of a credit card and attempting and prevent a witness from testifying. 21 O.S. 455 provides: A. Every person who willfully prevents or attempts to prevent any person from giving testimony or producing any record, document or other object, who has been duly summoned or subpoenaed or endorsed on th

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State of Ohio v. Justin Davis, et al.

Columbus, Ohio, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with committing violent crimes and dealing narcotics to further a human trafficking. The Central Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force, which is organized under Yost’s Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission (OOCIC) and led by the Columbus Division of Police, began its investigation in January 2025 after investigator

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United States of America v. Thomas Patrick Shannon

Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with exploitation of children From 2019 through 2024, Thomas Shannon, 44, previously of Byron Center, exploited at least eighteen children online, ranging in ages from 12 to 17. Police discovered Shannon’s crimes when a16-year-old minor in North Carolina reported that she had been sexually exploited on Snapcha

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United States of America v. Jared Goodman

Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interstate domestic violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2261, which provides: (a) Offenses.— (1) Travel or conduct of offender.— A person who travels in interstate or foreign commerce or enters or leaves Indian country or is present within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United State

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United States of America v. Dameia O. Smith, a/k/a "Omar," a/k/a "D"

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with solicitation and attempted murder of a federal witness. More than twenty years ago, a jury convicted Dameia Smith of both solicitation and attempted murder of a federal witness. The jury also convicted him of using or carrying a firearm “during and in relation to” a “crime of violence,” 18 U

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State of New York v. Kashawn Croswell

Brooklyn, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with causing a fatal crash in Downtown Brooklyn after driving over 60 miles per hour, running three red lights and slamming into another vehicle, killing a 21-year-old woman and injuring three others. “This defendant made a series of reckless and deliberate decisions that had deadly consequences. By driving at high

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United States of America v. Craig Scott Valdez

Anchorage, Alaska, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking a minor, exploitation of a child, production of child porn, and coercion and enticement of a minor. Craig Scott Valdez, 36, used the popular social media application Snapchat to identify, groom and entice juvenile females in Alaska for the purposes of sexual exploitation. The indictment charges thi

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United States of America v. Christopher Santiago-Rosado

New Haven, Connecticut, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl. In 2024, the FBI’s Bridgeport Safe Streets Task Force and Bridgeport Police Department investigated an open-air drug market that was operating in the area of Noble Avenue and Shelton Street in Bridgeport. Between March and Septembe

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United States of America v. Zynex, Inc.

Providence, Rhode Island, quit tam lawyers represented the Defendant accused of r participating in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud, securities fraud, mail fraud, and other violations. In the Statement of Facts included in the NPA, Zynex also admits the following: Zynex fraudulently obtained millions of dollars from government and private health care payors and patients by subm

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United States of America v. Maycon Stiven Molina Perez

Cheyenne, Wyoming, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with production of child pornography. on July 8, 2025, the mother of a victim found a video of Maycon Stiven Molina Perez, 23, of Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua, sexually assaulting a child on his phone. She immediately called the Laramie County Police Department and gave officers Perez’s Samsung Galaxy phone. They obtain

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United States of America v. Kal J. Nay

Kansas City, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with selling drug and possessing a machine gun. On Oct. 9, 2025, Nay pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and possession of machine guns. Between May 2, 2024, and June 11, 2024, the Jackson County Drug Task Force utilized a Confidential Informant to purchase “M30” pills, which contained fentan

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United States of America v. David Robinson

Fayetteville, Arkansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. On November 21, 2024, officers with the Fayetteville Police Department responded to a call of an armed person at an apartment complex. A witness reported that David Robinson, age 21, arrived at the apartment complex, made verbal threats and exposed a handgun in his w

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United States of America v. Bruce McArthur Smith, Kevin Langel, and Larry Rogers, and Jonathan D. Ross

Little Rock, Arkansas, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Bruce McArthur Smith, 54, of Hesperia, Calif., Kevin Langel, 54, of Pine Bluff, and Larry Rogers, 71, of Benton were accused of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine conspiracies that spanned from California to Texas to Arkansas

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United States of America v. Kelly Bruce Duncan, Jr.

Little Rock, Arkansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Kelly Bruce Duncan, Jr., 43, of Lamar, in a three-count Indictment for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, felon in possession of a firearm, and possession of a firearm in furtherance with a drug trafficking crime. On September 29, 2025, D

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United States of America v. Andrew Warner and Kishore Vangipuram

New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud. The Government alleges that Andrew Warner and Kishore Vangipuram, inflated Mobileum’s key financial metrics in advance of the company’s 2022 sale to an investment firm at an enterprise value of $915 million. Mobileum declared bankruptcy in 2024, after the

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United States of America v. Daren Li

Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with International Money Laundering. Daren Li, 42, is a fugitive after cutting off his ankle electronic monitoring device and absconding in December 2025. He was sentenced by United States District Judge R. Gary Klausner, who will determine restitution at a later date. Li pleaded guilty in November 2024 to one

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United States of America v. Nikhil Gupta, a/k/a "Nick"

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit murder for hire, racketeering and money laundering. “Nikhil Gupta plotted to assassinate a U.S. citizen in New York City,” said U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton. “He thought that from outside this country he could kill someone in it without consequence, simply for exercising their Ame

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United States of America v. Morrell D. Johnson, a/k/a "Money"

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking of children by force or coercion. Morrell D. Johnson (35), a.k.a. “Money,” a notorious human trafficker on Milwaukee’s south side, was also a drug trafficker who sold heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl. Johnson recruited addicted women to perform commercial sex acts, promising them housing, pro

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United States of America v. Dametri G. Horton

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interference with commerce by threat or violence and felony possession of a firearm. Dametri G. Horton, age 34, was found guilty of committing a commercial business armed robbery. The evidence established that on November 20, 2022, Horton entered a Walgreens in the City of Milwaukee, approached a cashier, bran

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United States of America v. Kedrick Donell Moses, Edward Paige, Donovan Solitaire, Quenderrick Williams and Raven Gray

Alexandria, Louisiana, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to distribute fentanyl. Kedrick Donell Moses, a 49-year-old resident of Alexandria; Edward Paige, a.k.a. “Pooh,” a 43-year-old resident of Natchitoches; Donovan Solitaire, a.k.a. “NuFive,” “Five,” and “Nuda,” a 26-year-old resident of Natchez; Quenderrick W

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United States of America v. Kurtney Bernard Jones

Abilene, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute fentanyl. Kurtney Jones, also known as “KP,” was responsible for distributing large quantities of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and heroin in the Abilene area. In December 2023, Jones assumed control of a drug trafficking organization (DTO) that distributed drugs in Abilene and the surro

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United States of America v. Isidro Arcenio Alvarado

Raleigh, North Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with naturalization fraud. Alvarado confessed to having knowingly made materially false statements under oath and penalty of perjury on his naturalization application and during a naturalization interview with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS). He answered “No” to the following questions “Wer

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United States of America v. Christian Gale Biles

Charlesotn, West Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute drugs. On March 4, 2024, Christian Gale Biles, 21, of Vienna, West Virginia, took possession of a package delivered to his residence by the United States Postal Service. As part of his guilty plea, Biles admitted that he knew the package contained methamphetamine in adv

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State of Oklahoma v. Keon Biagas

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree rape, sodomy, and kidnapping. 21 O.S. 1114 provides: A. Rape or rape by instrumentation in the first degree, a Class A2 felony offense, shall include: 1. Rape committed by a person over eighteen (18) years of age upon a person under fourteen (14) years of age; 2. Rape committed upon a person i

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United States of America v. Don Lemon

Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendant charged with conspiracy agains rights of religious freedom at a place or worship and injuring, intimidating and interfering with the exercise of a right of religious worship. 18:241 provides: If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Po

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