Kidnapping Law
 
State of Texas v. Sasha Skare

San Antonio, Texas criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with second-degree murder.

Saaha Skare was accused of shooting and killing Matreel "Kardoone" DeRouen, age 34, in 2021.

The case was prosecuted by Chris Ramos and Ashley Jones.

Sec. 19.01. TYPES OF CRIMINAL HOMICIDE. (a) A person commits criminal homicide if he intentionally, knowingly, reckless

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United States of America v. Johnny R. Jameson

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented DefendanJohnney R. Jameson, Age 42, of Oklahoma City, who was charged with racketeering and drug trafficking.

The United Arian Brotherhood operates both inside prisons and outside prison walls and funds itself through drug trafficking to promote white supremacist hatred. The Northern District of Oklahoma targeted the gang's violent and d

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State of Florida v. Tiffany Ann Cole

Jacksonville, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with kidnapping and murder.
with two counts of first-degree murder.

Tiffany Ann Cole, age 41, was accused of participating in the murders of Reggie and Carol Summers in July 2005.

The case was prosecuted by Jay Plotkin and Alan Seth Mizrhi

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United States of America v. Andrew Michael Crowels

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with robbery in Indian Country and kidnapping.

Andrew Crowels, age 27, and his co-defendant, kidnapped the victim at gunpoint, robbed him, and then drove him to his place of employment and forced him to empty the safe.

In his plea on May 11, 2022, Crowels admitted that he, along with others, robbed and kidnapp

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United States of America v. Adam Bess

Toledo, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with depriving an inmate at the Erie County Jail of her constitutional rights by using excessive force.

On November 1, 2021, Adam Bess, age 35, was working as a sergeant at the Erie County Jail. During the booking process of a new arrestee, Bess placed his hand around the inmate's throat in anger in a "choke hold”

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State of Oklahoma v. Cameron Jermaine Whitlock and Sasha Faye Embry

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

Count # 1. Count as Filed: RBDW, ROBBERY FIRST DEGREE, in violation of 21 O.S. 798
Date of Offense: 06/14/2021
Party Name Disposition Information
WHITLOCK, CAMERON JERMAINE Disposed: CONVICTION, 08/08/2023. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: AMENDED TO - ROBBERY SECOND DEGREE(OROB)
Violation of 2

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United States of America v. Tyler James Stephens

Muskogee, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with stalking, attempted first degree burglary in Indian Country, attempted sexual abuse, first degree burglary and coercion and enticement.


18 U.S.C. 1151 provides:

Except as otherwise provided in sections 1154 and 1156 of this title, the term "Indian country”, as used in this chapter, means (a)

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United States of America v. David Carr and James Michael Poterbin

Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with kidnapping, felony possession and use of a firearm and possession of drugs.

In February 2023, a federal jury found David Carr, 36, of Kansas City, and James Michael Poterbin, 47, of Edwardsville, guilty of kidnapping, conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, and discharging a firearm in connection with a dru

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United States of America v. Elga Harper

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with kidnapping in Indian Country, aggravated sexual abuse by force, assault with a dangerous weapon and assault resulting in serious bodily injury.

A federal jury convicted Elga Eugene Harper, 41, a Choctaw Nation citizen on Feb. 9, for kidnapping in Indian Country; aggravated sexual abuse by force and threat in India

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United States of America v. Dewayne Lewis Dudley

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with deprivation of the rights of another under color of law.

Dewayne Lewis Dudley, 56, worked as a private prisoner transport officer for Blue Raven Services. As a private prisoner transport officer, Dudley performed the government function of picking up individuals who were arrested on out-of-state warrants and transp

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United States of America v. David Carr and James Michael Poterbin

Kansas City, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with kidnapping, conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, and discharging a firearm in connection with a drug trafficking crime.

David Carr, age 36, from Kansas City, Kansas and James Poterbin, age 47, from Edwardsville, Illinois a man and tortured him in 2019 in Kansas City, Kansas.After beating, shooting, and

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The People of the State of Michigan v. Robert Yarbrough, Jr.

Detroit, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with kidnapping, felonious assault, assault with intent to do great bodily harm and three counts of first-degree sexual assault.


Robert Yarbrough, Jr., was convicted following a jury trial in the Wayne Circuit Court of kidnapping, MCL 750.349; assault with intent to do great bodily harm, MCL 750.89; felonious as

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State of Oklahoma v. Joseph Lynn Earls

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

Count # 1. Count as Filed: KID, ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING, in violation of 21 O.S. 741
Date of Offense: 09/03/2022
Party Name Disposition Information
EARLS, JOSEPH LYNN Disposed: CONVICTION, 07/03/2023. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: AMENDED TO MISDM Assault and Battery - Gen

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United States of America v. Clarence Moses-EL

Denver, Colorado civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants claiming that his constitutional rights were violated as a result of being arrested and convicted for a crime that he did not commit.

During the evening of August 15, 1987, T.S. attended a party at a friend's house, which was two doors from her own home in a Denver low-income housing project. At about 2:15 a.m

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State of Oklahoma v. Previn Ray Jones

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

Count # 1. Count as Filed: RAPE, RAPE- FIRST DEGREE, in violation of 21 O.S. 1114(A)
Date of Offense: 09/23/2022
Party Name Disposition Information
JONES, PREVIN RAY Disposed: CONVICTION, 06/27/2023. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: RAPE- FIRST DEGREE(RAPE)
Violation of

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United States of America v. Jeffrey David Marsh

Springfield, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with kidnapping a Webb City, Mo., woman and threatening to kill her and her family unless she recanted her testimony in his state criminal case.

On July 7, 2022, Jeffrey Marsh, 35, of Oronogo, Mo. pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit kidnapping, one count of kidnapping, one count of being a felon i

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United States of America v. Shamari Smith, a/k/a "Dakota"

New Haven, Connecticut criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with kidnapping and murder.

On December 24, 2020, Calvin Roberson and another individual kidnapped Francisco Roman, Jr., 28, at gunpoint from his residence in Chicopee, Massachusetts. Roberson and his associate threatened to harm Roman if he did not comply with their orders, handcuffed him, and stole cash, marij

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United States of America v. Ralph Harmon

Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with carjacking and kidnapping in Seaford, Delaware.

On January 13, 2023, defendant Ralph Harmon, 24, carjacked and kidnapped a person referred to in the Indictment as "Victim.” The Indictment alleges that the carjacking resulted in serious bodily injury to the Victim.

Harmon is charged with carjacki

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United States of America v. Robert Bowers

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyers are representing Defendant charged with 63 counts of murder and other felonies for shooing and killing Jewish worshipers gathered to practice their faith at the Squirrel Hill synagogue four years and 7 months ago. The government seeks the death penalty.

Robert Bowers, age 50, of Baldwin, Pennsylvania, had a history of anti-semitism.

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State of Louisiana v. Evangelisto Ramos

New Orleans, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with armed robbery, rape and kidnapping.

Only 10 jurors voted to convict Ramos.

The Supreme Court in Ramos held that a state jury must be unanimous to convict a defendant of a serious offense. In so holding, Ramos announced a new rule.

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Nakisha Jackson v. Christopher Wray, et al.

Dallas, Texas pro se Plaintiff filed this action against the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, unknown federal agents, Apple Inc., and Charter Communications. (See doc. 3.) The non-federal defendants have moved to dismiss her claims against them. (See docs. 9, 13.) Citing Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(f), the plaintiff seeks to strike the defendants' motions to dismiss on grounds that they are fr

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State of New York v. Antonio Carr

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

Antonio Carr, age 30, was accused of killing Tracy Green, age 57, at the victim's barber shop in Niagara Falls on Oct. 2, 2021. The defendant shot the victim with a small-caliber rifle. When those shots weren't fatal, he left, returned moments later with a 9 mm handgun, and shot him six mo

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United States of America v. Jeffrey Steven Clay

Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with one count each of kidnapping and transportation for illegal sexual activity.

A federal grand jury indicted Clay on Nov. 9, 2022. At the time, Jeffrey Steven Clay, age 51, of Anthony, New Mexico, was employed as the Executive Director of Analytics, Strategy, and Assessment and Public Education Information Ma

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State of Hawaii v. Albert "Ian" Schweitzer

Defendant-appellant Albert Ian Schweitzer appeals from the April 24, 2000 judgment of conviction and sentence of the Circuit Court of the Third Circuit, the Honorable Riki May Amano presiding, adjudging him guilty of and sentencing him for: murder in the second degree, in violation of Hawai`i Revised Statutes (HRS) § 707-701.5 (1993); kidnapping, in violation of HRS § 707-720 (1993); and sex

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United States of America v. Joshua Davidson

Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with kidnapping, depriving another of her civil rights, and witness tampering.

On Jan. 30, 2020, Joshua Davidson, 32, while on duty as a Dallas County Deputy Sheriff, placed the victim in custody and drove her down a dark road to a desolate location where the victim performed oral sex on him against her will. The victim

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