On October 29, 1987, C.G., age 20, was kidnapped in the laundry where she worked and raped in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She reported the kidnapping and rape immediately after it occurred.

On March 17, 1988, Arvin Carsel McGee, Jr. was arrested by the Tulsa Police Department and was charged with kidnapping for extortion, first-degree rape, robbery by force and sodomy.

The only evidence of ... More...   $0 (11-04-1987 - OK)

Raleigh, North Carolina criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder.

Justin Merritt was accused of killing Andy Banks.

§ 14-17. Murder in the first and second degree defined; punishment.

(a) A murder which shall be perpetrated by means of a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon of mass destruction as defined in G.S. 14-288.21, po... More...   $0 (12-02-2022 - NC)

Birmingham, Alabama criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged for kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap a minor victim.

The jury returned its guilty verdict against Derick Irisha Brown, 32, after three days of testimony before Chief U.S. District Court Judge L. Scott Coogler. Brown was convicted of one count of kidnapping and one count of conspiracy to kidnap a minor victim arising... More...   $0 (11-17-2022 - AL)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with kidnapping resulting in death, conspiracy to tamper with a witness.

Lane Ryan Bronson, 29, pleaded guilty to tampering with a witness, victim, and informant by using and threatening physical force. If a federal judge approves the stipulated sentence, Bronson will serve 19 years in federal prison. The judge will make t... More...   $0 (11-21-2022 - OK)

Anchorage, Alaska criminal law lawyers represented Defendants charged with kidnapping and drug trafficking.

Believing that the victim had stolen drugs from them, Macarthur Christmas Vaifanua, a/k/as "Mac" lured the victim to his home on August 13, 2017. As the victim was leaving the residence, he was led instead into the garage where he was forcibly bound and gagged. The victim was then b... More...   $0 (11-22-2022 - AK)

East St. Louis, Illinois criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud, extortion, sending interstate communications with the intent to extort, healthcare fraud, money laundering, and conducting financial transactions with criminally derived proceeds.

Emmitt T. Tiner, agte 55, of O’Fallon, Illinois, admitted that he extorted more than $2,000,000 from two local More...   $0 (11-18-2022 - IL)

White Cloud, Michigan criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with felony murder homicide and felony possession and use of a firearm.

Roy Snell, age 57, was accused of killing Richard Atwood 39 years ago in August 1983.

Snell was the last person seen with Atwood, whose body was never found. His brown 1975 Pontiac Trans-Am was recovered in the Grand Rapids area at a hot... More...   $0 (11-18-2022 - MI)

New Orleans, Louisiana criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with deprivation of the rights of another under color of law in violation of 18 U.S.C. 242, which provides: Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or i... More...   $0 (11-17-2022 - LA)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant, charged with:
Burglary - First Degree.

Count # 1. Count as Filed: BRG1, BURGLARY - FIRST DEGREE, in violation of 21 O.S. 1431
Date of Offense: 04/02/2021
Party Name Disposition Information
DAVIS, JUSTIN ARTHUR RAY Disposed: CONVICTION, 11/07/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: BURGLARY - FIRST DEGREE(BRG1... More...   $0 (11-07-2022 - OK)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with bank robbery.

Jerry Ray Brown, age 44, pleaded guilty to all of the original bank robbery counts in the charged indictment, and he did so without a plea agreement from the United States. Brown lived in Skiatook at the time of the robberies and later in Bixby while criminal proceedings were pending.

Brown execu... More...   $0 (11-10-2022 - )

Riverhead, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with second-degree murder.

Michael G. Valva, a former New York police officer, who forced his son, Thomas Valva, to seep in a cold garage with his older bother.

NY Penal Law § 125.25: Murder in the second degree


§ 125.25 Murder in the second degree.

A person is guilty of murder in ... More...   $0 (11-07-2022 - CA)

El Paso, Texas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with car jacking.

On June 9, 2017, Fernando Angel Puga, aka Cholo, 37, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and his co-defendant Sergio Ivan Quinonez-Venegas, 38, from Mexico, approached a man working at a food truck in El Paso. Puga and Quinonez told the victim their car had broken down and asked for a ride. While the victim was giv... More...   $0 (10-31-2022 - TX)

Burlington, Vermont criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder.

Aita Gurung was accused of killing Yogeswari Khadka and attempted second degree murder of Tulasa Rimal.

Attorney General Susanne Young issued the following statement:

“Murder is the most serious charge that can be brought in our system of justice. The Attorney General’s O... More...   $0 (11-03-2022 - VT)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant, charged with:
Kidnapping.

Count # 1. Count as Filed: KID, KIDNAPPING, in violation of 21 O.S. 741
Date of Offense: 09/02/2022
Party Name Disposition Information
DELGADO, TOMAS Disposed: CONVICTION, 10/25/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: KIDNAPPING(KID)
Violation of 21 O.S. 741
Count # 2. Count... More...   $0 (10-25-2022 - OK)

Alexandria, Virginia criminal law lawyers represented Defendants charged with kidnapping and murder of two adolescent boys in 2016.

MS-13 gang members Elmer Zelaya Martinez, Ronald Herrera Contreras, Henry Zelaya Martinez, Pablo Velasco Barrera, and Duglas Ramirez Ferrera, along with their co-conspirators, targeted E.E.E.M., a 17-year-old resident of Falls Church, who they erroneously su... More...   $0 (11-04-2022 - VA)

Muskogee, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with involuntary manslaughter in Indian Country.

Troy Allen Stevenson, age 22, from Sequoyah County, Oklahoma was accused involuntary manslaughter.

The Sequoyah County Sheriff's Office investigate the case along with the Cherokee Nation Marshal Service, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Assistant... More...   $0 (10-14-2022 - OK)

Guntersville, Alabama criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with seven counts of capital murder.

JJimmy Spencer faced seven counts of capital murder after being accused of causing the deaths of Martha Reliford, Marie Martin, age 74, Martha Reliford, and Colton Lee to make money and make ends meet.

2016 Code of Alabama
Title 13A - CRIMINAL CODE.
Chapter 6 - OFF... More...   $0 (10-28-2022 - AL)

Atlanta, Georgia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with multiple counts of violating 18 U.S.C. 242, which provides:

Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the C... More...   $0 (10-28-2022 - GA)

Muskogee, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with two counts of murder in Indian Country and one count of assault with intent to commit murder in Indian Country.

Amy Leann Hall, age 42, pleaded guilty to fatally shooting tow of her child and wounding of another.

The government threatened to dismiss the case and remand it back to the State so that it could... More...   $0 (10-27-2022 - OK)

Somerset, Pennsylvania criminal law lawyer represented Defendants charged with firs-degree murder, kidnapping, unlawful restrating, aggravated assault, homicide and conspiracy.

Samson Washington, Marekus Benson and Deandre Callander were accused of killing James Smith, 32, of Portage, and Damian Staniszewski, 19, of Duncansville.

... More...   $0 (10-21-2022 - PA)

Wichita Falls, Texas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with aggravated sexual assault and two counts of indecency with a child by contact.

Manuel Mendoza was accused of aggravated sexual assault and two counts on indecency with a child by contact by forcing the girls to perform sexual acts on him when she was in bed with him at night when she was 8 or 9 years old.
More...   $0 (10-21-2022 - TX)

Claremore, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with first-degree child abuse murder in violation of 21 O.S. 701.7, which provides:

A. A person commits murder in the first degree when that person unlawfully and with malice aforethought causes the death of another human being. Malice is that deliberate intention unlawfully to take away the life of a human being, ... More...   $0 (12-31-2004 - OK)

Muskogee, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with aggravated sexual abuse in Indian County and assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country.

On or about December 25, 2021, Ryan Christopher Dill, age 35, from Ada, Oklahoma, sexually assaulted a victim using force and by placing the victim in fear she would be subjected to death, serious bodily injury... More...   $0 (10-03-2022 - OK)