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United States of America v. Donna Heinel
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud.
Donna Heinel, 60, of Long Beach, California was charged with being involved in a a scheme to admit students as purported athletic recruits in exchange for money.
The government will recommend a prison sentence within the sentencing guideline range, a fine within the sentencing guidelines r... More... $0 (11-05-2021 - NY)
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United States of America v. Jeremy Javan Wilson
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Denver, CO - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a
being a felon in possession of a firearm charge.
On November 9, 2019, Mr. Wilson pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm
while a felon—a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). At the time he entered his
plea, the law of this circuit require... More... $0 (11-05-2021 - CO)
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United States of America v. Manuel Chavez
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Denver, CO - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with deciding whether a deputy sheriff’s warrantless seizure of a firearm from a car was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.
On January 8, 2018, soon after midnight, Deputy Sheriff Eric Castañeda saw a
car run a stop sign in Albuquerque, New Mexi... More... $0 (11-04-2021 - CO)
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United States of America v. JEREMY JAVAN WILSON
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Denver, CO - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a
being a felon in possession of a firearm charge.
On November 9, 2019, Mr. Wilson pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm
while a felon—a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). At the time he entered his
plea, the law of this circuit require... More... $0 (11-02-2021 - CO)
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United States of America v. DIANA YATES
United States of America v. DAN HEINE
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San Francisco, CA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and 12 counts of making a false bank entry charges.
The panel vacated convictions and remanded for further
proceedings in a case in which a jury found Dan Heine and
Diana Yates, who were executives at the Ba... More... $0 (11-01-2021 - CA)
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United States of America v. ERIC GOODALL
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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)
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United States of America v. Henry N. Asomani
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St. Louis - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, two counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to launder money, and two counts of money laundering charges.
First, we address Asomani’s argument that the district court erred by failing
to give his good... More... $0 (10-29-2021 - MO)
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United States of America v. Andrew Walsh
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Phoenix, AZ: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
On August 28, 2021, federal agents executed a search warrant at Andrew Walsh's, 43, of Phoenix, Arizona, residence. At that time, Walsh was in possession of 496.9 grams of a mixture of methamphetamine intended for distribution.
The Federal Bureau of Inves... More... $0 (10-27-2021 - AZ)
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United States of America v. Don Westly Roe, Jr.
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Tulsa, OK: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with attempted receipt of child pornography.
Don Westly Roe Jr., 62, of Tulsa, was charged with attempted receipt of child pornography.
“Don Roe Jr. initiated sexually inappropriate online conversations with an individual he believed was a minor, asked for explicit images and arranged a meeting between the two,”... More... $0 (10-26-2021 - OK)
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United States of America v. Kenneth DEan Rosenberg
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Tulsa, OK: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with felony firearm and drug possession.
Kenneth Dean Rosenberg, 38, was charged with possessing firearms as part of a methamphetamine distribution operation.
“Guns and methamphetamine are a volatile combination. They fuel crime, violence and suffering in our neighborhoods,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johns... More... $0 (10-26-2021 - OK)
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United States of America v. Xizhi Li
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Alexandria, VA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs and money laundering.
Xizhi Li, 48, a U.S. citizen who previously resided in Mexico, led a years-long scheme to launder money on behalf of transnational drug trafficking organizations. To carry out the scheme, Li and his conspirators used a foreign casino; foreign and domestic front c... More... $0 (10-26-2021 - VA)
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United States of America v. Immanuel Bradley
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Cincinnati, Ohio- Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with (1) being a felon in possession of a firearm; (2) possession of a stolen firearm; (3) possession of stolen mail; and (4) possession of .223-caliber ammunition charges.
On October 25, 2018, the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety responded to a report <... More... $0 (10-26-2021 - OH)
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John Figueroa, III v. Portage Cnty. Sheriff's Dep't
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Cincinnati, Ohio- Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with
possession of cocaine and faced forfeiture of the seized currency charges. He now brings one claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress under Ohio law and another for deprivation of constitutional rights
Driving home from a child’s b... More... $0 (10-25-2021 - OH)
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United States of America v. RUSSELL DANE REEVES
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New Orleans, LA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with arguing that the government breached the plea agreement and that the district court improperly enhanced the sentence claim.
Reeves and his codefendants defrauded elderly persons by persuading them to turn over
money to be invested in what were real... More... $0 (10-23-2021 - LA)
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STEVEN M. HICKMAN; GINA L. HICKMAN versus STATE OF TEXAS
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New Orleans, LA - Bail Bond lawyer represented Appellees with arguing that a bail bond forfeitures is not dischargeable.
For nearly ten years, Gina Lynn Hickman (“Hickman”) owned and
operated a bail bonding business in Tarrant County, Texas. She
served as a surety on criminal bail bonds; when a criminal
de... More... $0 (10-23-2021 - LA)
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United States of America v. Edward Sanders
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South Bend, IN: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute controlled substances.
Edward Sanders, 48 years old, of Michigan City, Indiana, was indicted for possession with intent to distribute controlled substances.
In January of 2020, Sanders was the passenger in a car and police found Sanders to be in possession of heroin, fe... More... $0 (10-21-2021 - IN)
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United States of America v. Carlos Rafael Castaneda Mendez, et al.
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Miami, FL: Criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with stealing identities, creating and using fake foreign passports, impersonating homeowners, and falsifying loan documents to trick lenders into providing millions of dollars of mortgage loans on unencumbered residential properties.
The scheme followed a general pattern. First, the fraudsters would identify residentia... More... $0 (10-20-2021 - FL)
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United States of America v. James Davis
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Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a honest services wire fraud and conspiracy charges.
Davis owned Reach Communications Specialists, Inc. (“Reach”), an advertising
company, and RCS Searchers, Inc. (“RCS”), a title search and deed preparation business.
Since 1989, Reach... More... $0 (10-19-2021 - PA)
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United States of America v. Paris Church also known as
PAY MAY, also known as PAY
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Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with three different indictments for his involvement as a supplier in a large-scale drug trafficking conspiracy charge.
Church was charged in three different indictments for his involvement as a
supplier in a large-scale drug trafficking conspiracy.2More... $0 (10-19-2021 - PA)
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United States of America v. LARRY WILLIS, ISIAH PIERCE
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New York, NY - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with various drug-related crimes and firearms offenses.
The issues raised on appeal center on Willis’s and Pierce’s use of two
5 apartments—the upper and the lower—at 70 Henrietta Avenue, Buffalo, New
6 York(“70 Henrietta”) from which they c... More... $0 (10-17-2021 - NY)
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United States of America v. VICKRAM BEDI and DATALINK COMPUTER PRODUCTS, INC.
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New York, NY - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with
arguing that the Government may not use the procedures of the FDCPA to collect the unpaid wages charge.
This appeal turns on a question of statutory interpretation:
whether the FDCPA authorizes the United States to collect on an
administrati... More... $0 (10-17-2021 - NY)
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United States of America v. STEPHEN A. SACCOCCIA
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with laundering more than $136,000,000 for a Colombian drug cartel charge. He know
We briefly rehearse the relevant facts and travel of the
case. Roughly three decades ago, a jury convicted Saccoccia (a
dealer in precious metals) of a panoply of crimi... More... $0 (10-17-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. ANGEL MIGUEL CARRASQUILLO-SÁNCHEZ
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a one count of firearm possession charge.
Carrasquillo was arrested by local police officers on
May 21, 2019, in the afternoon in Loíza, Puerto Rico, following a
traffic stop. At the time of his arrest, Carrasquillo was
travelling in a car wit... More... $0 (10-17-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. LAURA G. MARTINEZ
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Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with cocaine distribution and conspiracy charges .
We draw the facts from the undisputed portions of the
presentence-investigation report ("PSR"), the plea colloquy, and
the transcript of the sentencing hearing. See, e.g., United States
v. Rivera-Go... More... $0 (10-15-2021 - MA)
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United States of America v. LETTER FROM ALEXANDER HAMILTON TO THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE DATED JULY 21, 1780, and ALDRICH L. BOSS, as personal representative for the estate of STEWART R. CRANE and COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, Acting by and through The Massachusetts Archive
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Boston, MA - Civil Forfeiture lawyer represented defendant with a civil forfeiture action.
This civil forfeiture action begins — and ends — with
the provenance of the property that lies at its center. That
provenance is (unless otherwise indicated) uncontroverted.
Upon learning that British troops statio... More... $0 (10-15-2021 - MA)
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