Merardo Garza appeals the district court's denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus challenging his convictions for rape of a child under 14 years of age and aggravated indecent liberties with a child. After a nonevidentiary hearing, the district court rejected Garza's multiple claims of ineffective assistance of counsel.

        The facts of Garza's conviction are fo

1.A district court is justified in denying a defendant's request for new counsel if there is a reasonable basis for believing the attorney-client relationship has not deteriorated to a point that appointed counsel could not give effective aid in the presentation of the client's defense.

        2. K.S.A. 60-401(b) defines relevant evidence as "evidence having any tendency in reaso

Frankfort, Kentucky criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with unlawfully distributing anabolic steroids.

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Providence, Rhode Island criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with multiple child pornography felonies.

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Sanford, Florida On the morning of June 17, 2004, 47-year-old Cheryl Williams and 68-year-old Carol Bareis were found stabbed to death in their home at 121 Vagabond Way in Altamonte Springs, Florida.

Mark Van Sandt called police shortly before 9 a.m. saying he discovered the bodies when he stopped to pick up clothes for his girlfriend, Samantha Williams, who was the daughter of Cheryl Wil

Camden, New Jersey intellectual property lawyers represented Plaintiff and Defendant in a trademark infringement dispute.


Primepoint is a New Jersey company with its principal place of business in Bordentown, New Jersey. Primepoint provides payroll processing and payroll tax services using the "Primepoint" trademark (hereinafter the "Primepoint mark"). Primepoint was founded in 2000

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with child exploitation.

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Washington, DC: Criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with stalking.

Ranjith Keerikkattil, age 34, of Catonsville, Maryland, was found guilty of the stalking charge on July 9, 2018, following a trial in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. The Honorable Robert A. Salerno released Keerikkattil following the verdict, pending sentencing. The judge ordered him to appear

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant, charged with possession of child pornography in violation of 21 O.S. 1021.2, which provides:

A. It shall be unlawful to:

1. Willfully, and without authorization, gain or attempt to gain access to and damage, modify, alter, delete, destroy, copy, make use of, use malicious computer programs on, disclose or take possessio

Montgomery, Alabama criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of child pornography.

In 2015, Nathan Alan Westbrook, age 44, from Daleville, Alabama, was convicted in federal court for possessing child pornography. At that time, he received a 33-month prison sentence. Westbrook completed that sentence in September of 2017 and was under the supervision of the United

Omaha, Nebraska criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with receipt of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2252(a)(2).

On November 9, 2020, Officers with the Bellevue Police Department were dispatched to a residence in Bellevue. Upon arrival offices were informed that the reporting party found a video of a naked minor on a cellphone previously used by Jacob R. Price, a

Cape Girardeau, Missouri criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of child pornography.

Law enforcement officials executed a search warrant at Jonathan D. Drury’s residence in June 2021 after developing probable cause that he was obtaining videos containing child pornography over the internet. Drury’s cell phone was seized, which was found to contain numerous

Bay City, Michigan criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with attempted damage or destruction of a building used in interstate commerce.

John Douglas Allen, 76, was accused to extortion by wrongful use of force, violence, and fear, as well as two counts of attempted destruction of a building using an explosive device.

Allen admitted that on September 15, 2021, at app

Clarksburg, West Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

Robert Wood, of Morgantown, West Virginia was charged in March 2022 with one count Assistant U.S. Attorneys Zelda E. Wesley and Sarah E. Wagner prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The FBI's Northern West Virginia Drug Task Force in partnershi

Franklin, Kentucky criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with production of child sexual abuse material.

on March 31, 2021, law enforcement received a referral from the Australian Federal Police, in reference to a subject posting on a Russian website associated with the sexual exploitation of children. In an interview, David Allen Kiper, age 34, admitted to using the Russian

El Paso, Texas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with production of child pornography.

Law enforcement officers first encountered Jorge Mario Manjarrez-Reyes, 30, of El Paso, Texas, on a peer-to-peer program where he was sharing images of child pornography. Following the execution of a search warrant at the defendant’s residence in March 2020, Homeland Security Investiga

Wichita, Kansas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with committing sex crimes against children.

In June 2022, Dustin Strom, 26, of Parsons pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit sexual exploitation of a child (production of child pornography).

In July 2022, Thommie-Lyn Stansky, 28, of Parsons pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit sexua

Omaha, Nebraska criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2423.

Between January and April of 2021, Armando Daniels (32 years old at the time), from New York, communicated with a 15-year-old female (“Victim”) from Sarpy County, Nebraska, via cellular phone and internet app

Fargo, North Dakota criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with Production, Distribution and Possession of Child Pornography.

Social networking website Tumblr reported that the Tumblr user "hornybiguysstuff" uploaded child pornography images during a private blog via the platform on December 19, 2019. A subsequent investigation by Homeland Security Investigation and North Dak

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged for transporting child pornography that he produced of an 18-month-old infant and for being a person required to register as a sex offender who committed a felony offense involving a minor.

Matthew Alan McNair, 41, of Tulsa, was in Indiana in the summer of 2017 when he utilized an electronic device to take sexually

Alexandria, Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places.

Dean Edward Cheves, 63, was serving at the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines from 2017 to 2021, during which time he met multiple minors over the internet. From December 2020 to March 2021, Cheves communicated online with a then 15- to 16-year-old Philippine mino

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with multiple child exploitation offenses including producing, transmitting, and collecting child pornography.

In April 2022, the defendant pleaded guilty to those child pornography charges detailed in a 2018 Indictment. According to court documents, beginning in 2017, the defendant hired two teenage brothers, th

Boise, Idaho criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with producing child pornography in violation of of 18 U.S.C. 2251, which provides:

(a) Any person who employs, uses, persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any minor to engage in, or who has a minor assist any other person to engage in, or who transports any minor in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, or in any Ter