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Paul Jenkins, et al. v. Ravalli County, et al.

Missoula, Montana civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendant's on civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983.




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Paul Jenkins and Freddie Joe Lawrenc

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State of Montana v. Freddie Joe Lawrence and Paul Jenkins

Montana City, Montana

"Paul Jenkins and Freddie Joe Lawrence were codefendants wrongly convicted on February 24, 1995 of murder, robbery and aggravated kidnapping of 34-year-old Donna Meagher from the Jackson Creek Saloon in Montana City, Jefferson County, Montana on January 12, 1994. Among Meagher's injuries were wounds inflicted by a hammer. However, Meagher's body was found in Lewis an

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Jesse Dean Redfearn v. William Chris Rankins

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree rape and kidnapping.




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A jury convicted Mr. Redfearn of first-degree rap

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United States of America v. Earl McAlister

Muskogee, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with second-degree murder in Indian country.




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Earl McAlister, age 55, pled guilty plea to an Information

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State of Montana v. Grant Alan West

Kellispell, Montana criminal law lawyer represented Defendant, charged with robbery, aggravated kidnapping and criminal possession of dangerous drugs.

Grant Alan West, age 38, of Columbia Falls, Montana was of using a firearm to stage a holdup on Apirl 13, 2022. He walked into a pharmacy located on Ninth Street in Kallispell with a gun and demand Percocet. Defendant forced the employees

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Joshua Lee Purdom v. State of Oklahoma

Holdenville, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with violation of 21 O.S.2011, § 652; Count 2: Kidnapping, in violation of 21 O.S.Supp.2012, § 741; Count 5: Sodomy By Force or Fear, in violation of 21 O.S.Supp.2017, § 888; Count 6: Rape in the First Degree, in violation of 21 O.S.Supp.2017, § 1114; and Count 7: Feloniously Pointing a Firearm, in violation of

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United States of America v. Nellie Sherry Serradell

Anchorage, Alaska criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with kidnapping.




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Nellie Sherry Serradell, 28, attempted to stop multiple vehicles as she walked in and out of traffic on

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State of Michigan v. Brian Webb

Boyne City, Michigan criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree criminal sexual assault.

Brian Webb was accused for sexually assaulting the victim who was asleep in 1996.

Defendant admitted in an interview that he sexually assault a woman while they were sleeping together eight times.

THE MICHIGAN PENAL CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 328 of 1931

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United States of America v. Gilad Peled

Nashville, Tennessee criminal law lawyers represented Defendant charged with murder of hire, conspiracy to kidnap with death resulting and kidnapping resulting in death.




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Gilad Peled was

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Commonwealth of North Carolina v. Joseph Abbitt

Winston-Salem, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sexual assault, kidnapping and burglary.

Joseph Abbitt, age 31, was exonerated on September 2, 2009 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, after serving 14 years in prison for two convictions of rape based in part on eyewitness misidentifications.
 
The Crime
 
In the early morning of

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United States of America v. Dewayne Dudley

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with violating a male detainee's civil rights by sexually assaulting and kidnapping him.




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"Sexual assaults carried out by law

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United States of America v. Kenneth “Smoke” Piper, Allen "Slim" Martin Smith, and Eric Cruz Pineda

Raleigh, North Carolina criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with felony possession of firearms and carjacking.




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On December 11, 2020, Kenneth "Smoke" Piper and Eric Cruz Pine

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State of Oklahoma v. Arvin Carsell McGee, Jr.

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

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Commonwealth of North Carolina v. Justin Merritt

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,

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Patrick Leonard Martin v. The State of Texas

Austin, Texas – Criminal Defense lawyer represented Appellant with a burglary of a habitation charge.



Kristin Ellington1 began a dating relationship with Martin in 2014. Martin lived
"off and on” with Ellington and her mother, Marcia Larson, at Larson's home in Bulverde,
Texas. Although at first th

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United States of America v. Derick Irisha Brown

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

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United States of America v. Lane Ryan Bronson

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

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United States of America v. Faamanu Vaifanua, aka “Junior”and Macauther Christmas Vaifanua, aka “Mac”

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

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Oliver Q. Martinez v. The State of Texas

Houston, Texas – Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant charged with aggravated assault of a public servant.



Around midnight on July 14, 2016, Sergeant I. Hernandez of the Houston
Police Department responded to a kidnapping report. Martinez was the suspect. The
vehicle, a Lexus, reportedly involve

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United States of America v. Emmitt T. Tiner

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

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State of Michigan v. Roy Leando Snell

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

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United States of America v. Rodney Vicknair

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

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State of Oklahoma v. Justin Arthur Ray Davis

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

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United States of America v. Jerry Ray Brown

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

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State of New York v. Michael G. Valva

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

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