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United States of America v. William Lawrence Bryant

Charleston, West Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant. age 33, of Fayetteville, West Virginia, charged with sexual exploitation of a minor and distribution of child pornography.

On April 1, 2022, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at William Lawrence Bryant’s residence and seized multiple digital media devices including computers, cell phones, and ext

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United States of America v. Andre Tookes, Jr.

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with purchasing child pornography through a social networking application (an “online app”).

According to court records, beginning in April 2022, Andre Tookes, Jr. communicated with an unknown person in South Africa through a social networking application. Tookes, Jr. purchased dozens of child pornography videos fr

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United States of America v. Allen Richard Smith

Yakima, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with producing images of child pornography depicting minor boys in the Philippines.

Allen Richard Smith, 66, of Richland, Washington, first came to the attention of law enforcement because Facebook reported that he was distributing images of child pornography on Facebook from April 2019 through May 2020. Special A

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United States of America v. Tye Stiger

Grand Rapids, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sexually exploiting four girls between approximately 2007 and 2022.

Tye Stiger, age 45, from Jonesville, Michigan was accused of grooming and molesting young girls. Police executed a search warrant at Stiger’s home and seized his cell phones and computers. Investigators found voluminous child pornograp

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United States of America v. Joshua Robert George Glardon

New Bern, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography.

Joshua Robert George Glardon, 41, was investigated by the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation in July 2021 for child exploitation offenses.

The investigation began when the National Center for Missing an

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United States of America v. Jeremy Michael Lee Powell and Becky Lynn Burroughs

Huntsville, Alabama criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with sexual exploitation of children.

Jeremy Michael Lee Powell, 25, of Athens, was sentenced to 600 months in prison followed by lifetime of supervised release. In April 2023, Powell pleaded guilty to two counts of production of child pornography. According to court documents, Powell befriended the minor childr

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Michael Salazar v. National Baseball Association

New York City, New York consumer law lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a Wrongful Disclosure of Video Tape Rental or Sales Records theory.


Defendant NBA is a major American sports league headquartered in New York, New York. Compl. ¶ 13. The NBA maintains a website called NBA.com that has approximately 14.5 million unique monthly visitors. Id. ¶¶ 13, 21. On NBA.c

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United States of America v. Frederick Francis Goltz

Lubbock, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with Suggesting a “mass shooting of poll workers” and threatened two Maricopa County officials and their children.

Frederick Francis Goltz, 52, pleaded guilty in April to interstate threatening communications. He was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix, who ordered three years of supervis

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United States of America v. Joshua Rico

Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with coercion and enticement in a minor.

A federal grand jury indicted Rico on May 12, 2021. According to court documents, beginning as early as January 2018, Rico used multiple profiles on the social media platform Snapchat to coerce female high school students, some of which he was familiar with from his job

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United States of America v. Erfan Salmanzadeh

Amarillo, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of a weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

Erfan Salmanzadeh, a 34-year-old naturalized citizen of the U.S. born in Iran, was charged via criminal complaint in July 2021 and indicted the following month.

“This defendant stashed a highly volatile substance inside his home, putting his whole neigh

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United States of America v. Kristy Lynn Felkins

Sacramento, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with murder-for-hire.

Kristy Lynn Felkins, age 38, sent 12 bitcoin (valued at approximately $5,000 at the time) to a dark web hitman website, known as Besa Mafia, to have her ex-husband murdered. From February to May 2016, Felkins regularly communicated with the administrator of the site to pay and arrange for th

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United States of America v. Karl Quilter

Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with enticing at least nine girls in the Philippines to produce sexually explicit photos and videos of themselves and send them to him.

Karl Quilter, 58, pleaded guilty last year to a federal charge of sexual exploitation of children.

Quilter admitted in a plea agreement that he communicated with the girls

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Paula Gulick v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

Kansas City, Kansas insurance law lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued defendant on a bad faith breach of contract theory.


Plaintiff Paula Gulick filed this suit as a putative class action on behalf of herself and other customers alleging breach of contract and seeking a declaratory judgment against Defendant State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. Doc. 3. State Farm moves

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United States of America v. Patrick Wood Crusius

El Paso, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with 45 counts of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act and 45 counts of using a firearm during and in relation to crimes of violence.

On Feb. 8, Patrick Wood Crusius, 24, pleaded guilty to a 90-count indictment with 45 counts of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hat

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United States of America v. Peterson Jean-Baptiste

Greenville, South Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with disseminating child pornography.

While on probation in Florida for a drug distribution conviction, Peterson Jean-Baptiste, 23, of Palm Bay, Florida, targeted teenage girls on Snapchat. After establishing a relationship with his victims, Jean-Baptiste requested nude photographs. Once in possession of

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United States of America v. Edmodo, LLC

San Francisco, California civil litigation lawyer represented Defendant accused of violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule), and the Federal Trade Commission Act.

The Edmodo educational platform, sold to schools throughout the United States, enabled teachers to interface with students, including childr

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United States of America v. Rocky R. Sonkowsky

Milwaukee, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sexually assaulting a child and capturing 21 images of the abuse on his smartphone.

In Summer 2021, while babysitting his girlfriend’s infant child and changing the child’s diaper, Rocky R. Sonkowsky (age: 33) of Oconto County, Wisconsin, sexually assaulted the child and captured 21 images of the abuse on

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United States of America v. Steven Spradley

Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor.

Steven E. Spradley, 58, of Kansas City, Missouri, traveled from Jackson County, Missouri, to Osage County, Kansas, in July 2021 to have sex with whom he believed to be a 17-year-old girl he met online. Spradley was actually communicating with

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Reynaldo Gonzalez, et al. v. Google, LLC

In 2015, ISIS terrorists unleashed a set of coordinated attacks across Paris, France, killing 130 victims, including
Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old U. S. citizen.1 Gonzalez’s parents and brothers then sued Google, LLC, under 18
U. S. C. §§2333(a) and (d)(2), alleging that Google was both directly and secondarily liable for the terrorist attack that killed Gonzalez.2 For their seconda

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United States of America v. Mihai Ionut Paunescu, a/k/a "Virus"

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion in connection with running a “bulletproof hosting” service that enabled cybercriminals to distribute the Gozi Virus, the Zeus Trojan, the SpyEye Trojan, and the BlackEnergy malware, all of which were designed to steal confidential financial information.

Mihai I

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United States of America v. Walter Garbecki

Providence, Rhode Island criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being illegally in possession of firearms and parts to make – and stockpile – a collection of un-serialized, privately made firearms, also known as “ghost guns,” along with silencers and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

Walter Garbecki, 38, admitted that, between March and July 2022, when he was

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United States of America v. Michael Chick

Concord, New Hampshire criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with cyberstalking an eight-year-old child.

Michael Chick, age 40, pleaded guilty to cyberstalking. Chick was arrested on a criminal complaint in August 2022 and was indicted on September 6, 2022.

Chick, a former school bus driver, began stalking an eight-year-old child on his bus route at least as earl

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United States of America v. Austin Schoemann

Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with using guns, death threats and racial slurs to intimidate Black people and interfere with multiple federally-protected rights.

On July 27, 2022, Austin Schoemann, 30, of Wichita, brandished a firearm and used racial slurs in order to threaten two Black juveniles, Victims 1 and 2, while they were entering a QuikTrip

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United States of America v. Jaiden Gyvan Petersen

Spokane, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with production of child pornography.

This case stemmed from a CyberTip or a notice to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) reporting the online exploitation of children. The FBI received the CyberTip, which originated from Snapchat, indicating child pornography had traveled across Snapcha

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United States of America v. Michael Melgaard

Lincoln, Nebraska criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with two counts of attempted production of child pornography.

Beginning in January of 2022, an investigation involving Michael Melgaard, age 54, of Alda, Nebraska, was instituted. As a result of the investigation, several search warrants were received and executed for Melgaard’s home and electronic devices. Melgaa

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