| State of Kansas v. Damon Leonard |
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Kansas City, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. Damon Leonard, 47, of Pleasanton, Kansas, with murder, interference of law enforcement, criminal desecration and having a vicious dog at large. $ (12-30-2025 - KS) |
| United States of America v. Robert J. Padilla, Jr. |
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with orchestrating a retaliatory killing tied to a violent prison gang and for using violence and intimidation to protect an ongoing drug trafficking operation. Robert Padilla, 48, was an associate of the Syndicato de Nuevo Mexico (SNM), a prison-based gang whose members and associates engaged in murder, drug tr $ (12-19-2025 - NM) |
| The People of the State of California v. Elliot Tramel Nowden |
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Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murdering an elderly woman aboard a Metro train in 2024. A jury found Elliot Tramel Nowden (dob 5/06/78) guilty last month of one count of first-degree murder with the special circumstance allegation of murder during the commission of a robbery. He was also found guilty of first-degree robbery and the jury $ (12-12-2025 - ca) |
| The People of the State of California v. Jonathan Renteria |
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Los Angeles, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. Jonathan Renteria, age 25, accused of killing June Renteria, also known as June Bunyan, age 37. My wife, June Renteria, is deceased in her apartment. I kill her. I am truly sorry." Jonathan Renteria $ (09-26-2025 - CA) |
| United States of America v. Andrew Nunez and Johncarlo Quintero |
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San Diego, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder and attempted murder. on March 26, 2024, 15-year-olds Andrew Nunez and Johncarlo Quintero—members of the Mexican Mafia-affiliated Westside Wilmas gang from the greater Los Angeles area—drove from Wilmington, California to a Chili’s restaurant in Chula Vista, where their target was dining with his $ (12-18-2025 - CA) |
| United States of America v. D’Angelo James Hunt |
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Fargo, North Dakota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder and manslaughter. On November 17, 2025, D’Angelo James Hunt, age 26, of St. Michael, North Dakota, was charged by criminal complaint with Second Degree Murder of I.H. He waived a detention hearing following his initial appearance and remains in custody. The Grand Jury then returned a true bill of in $ (12-11-2025 - ND) |
| State of Nebraska v. Johne Doe |
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Lincoln, Nebraska, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with murder. The body of Jerica Hamre, age 30, who was reported missing by her parents on July 3, 2024 was found on a rural farm in Furnas County, near Oxford, nearly a 3 hour drive southwest of Lincoln. $ (12-26-2025 - NE) |
| United States of America v. Gregory Hamilton |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with RICO Conspiracy and Premeditated Murder for his involvement in the Highs and the August 8, 2021 murder of Darryl Wells, Jr., an innocent bystander who was mistaken for a gang member. Gregory Hamilton, age 29, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, was a member of the Highs—a criminal enterprise that controlled territor $ (12-16-2025 - MN) |
| State of New Jersey v. Jordan Jackson-Small |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represent the Defendant charged with first-degree murder. On December 21, 2025, at 9:18 A.M., authorities received a 911 call reporting a stabbing. Upon their arrival to a residence on Grove Avenue, they discovered Imani Smith, 26, of Edison with stab wounds. Smith was transported to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital where she was ultimat $ (12-26-2025 - NJ) |
| United States of America v. Brandon Mitchell |
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Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. Brandon Mitchell, 29, from Mason City, Iowa, was previously convicted twice for domestic abuse assault in the Iowa District Court for Cerro Gordo County. The convictions prevented Mitchell from legally possessing firearms. Mitchell had two prior convicti $ (12-18-2025 - IA) |
| United States of America v. Martinez Alexander, Jr. |
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Little Rock, Arkansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful possession of a machinegun. Martinez Alexander, Jr., 20, was originally indicted by a federal grand jury on March 7, 2024, charging him with unlawful possession of a machinegun. The evidence presented at trial revealed that on December 15, 2023, Alexander and Jaylan Atkins, 21, drove up to a $ (12-22-2025 - AR) |
| State of Utah v. Ashlee Buzzard |
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Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with first degree murder. Ashlee Buzzard, age 40, is accused of killing her 9-year-old daughter, Melodee, whose body was found in a rural area of Utah more than 2 months after she went missing. $ (12-26-2025 - UT) |
| State of Michigan v. John Doe |
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Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represent the Defendant charged with murder. Detroit Jones, 38, died after Grand Rapids Police Department (GRPD) officers found him in the area of Southeast Lafayette Avenue and Sycamore Street at 1:30 a.m. with critical injuries from being shot. The GRPD arrested a man believed to be the shooter. $ (12-23-2025 - MI) |
| United States of America v. Edenilson Velasquez Larin, also known as “Agresor,” Saturno,” “Tiny,” and “Paco,”; Hugo Diaz Amaya, also known as “21”; Fulton Locos Salvatruchas (Fulton) clique leader Jose Espinoza Sanchez, also known as “Cable,” “Bleca,” and “Fantasma”; and Fulton member Jose Arevalao Iraheta, also known as “Splinter,” “Inesperado,” and “Daniel.” |
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Brooklyn, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana, murder in-aid-of racketeering in connection with the fatal machete attack of 18-year-old Kenny Reyes, continuing criminal enterprise, murder in-aid-of racketeering in connection with the fatal shooting of 2 $ (12-19-2025 - NY) |
| State of Maine v. Megan McDonald |
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Augusta, Maine, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. Megan McDonald walked into the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office and allegedly confessed to killing her son and four pets, there is no confirmation on if and when she will stand trial, and many details remain sealed from the public. McDonald allegedly told officers that God had chosen her for a murder $ (12-19-2025 - ME) |
| State of Maine v. Kendall Purnell |
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Skowhegan, Maine, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. $ (12-19-2025 - Me) |
| United States of America v. Theodore Bland |
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Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represent the Defendant charged with murder. Theodore Bland, 30, pleaded not guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Burlington to capital crime charges brought against him in a new indictment returned by a grand jury last month, accusing him of firing the shots that killed the two men. $ (12-12-2025 - VT) |
| State of Alabama v. Austin Kimbrough |
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Birmingham, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with murder. Austin Kimbrough, age 26, accused for shooting and killing Levi Wells, age 22, The preliminary investigation showed that Wells and 26-year-old Austin Kimbrough were involved in a confrontation after Wells drove away from a nearby gas station in his vehicle. $ (12-19-2025 - AL) |
| State of Alabama v. Kemond Johnson |
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Montgomery, Alabama. criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. Kemond Johnson, age 31, was charged with shooting and killing A’Daesia Robbins. age 28. $ (12-19-2025 - AL) |
| State of Alabama v. Jeffery Blackston |
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Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with capital murder and sexual torture. Blackston broke into the home of Troy Barnhill on Jan. 3, 2021. Barnhill was asleep in his bedroom when Blackston began to beat him with a metal pipe, then sexually tortured him with the pipe. Barnhill suffered severe internal injuries and lacerations to multiple organs. "The fa $ (12-19-2025 - AL) |
| State of North Carolina v. Cheyenne D. Woods |
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Lumberton, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged withf first-degree murder, discharging a weapon into occupied property, robbery with a dangerous weapon, possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of a stolen firearm, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, robbery with a dangerous weapon, second-degree kidnapping, and malicious conduct of a prison $ (12-19-2025 - NC) |
| United States of America v. Bienvenido Leo Rodriguez, et al. |
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Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with conspiring to traffic large quantities of cocaine in and around Miami-Dade County and elsewhere in the Southern District of Florida. The eight-count superseding indictment charges the following defendants—each a resident of Miami unless otherwise indicated—with drug trafficking conspiracy and related offenses: B $ (12-19-2025 - FL) |
| State of Utah v. Mia Bailey |
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St. George, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of aggravated murder and one count of aggravated assault. $ (12-19-2025 - UT) |
| United States of America v. Bryan Joshua Teweanema |
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing a prohibited object at the Federal Transfer Center (FTC) in Oklahoma City and for assault with a dangerous weapon and possessing a prohibited object at the Grady County Jail. On May 29, 2024, corrections officers with the FTC discovered a sharpened piece of plexiglass, a “shank,” hidden in Br $ (12-19-2025 - OK) |
| United States of America v. Timothy Jacob Hollan |
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Muskogee, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one Count of Murder in Indian Country and one count of Causing the Death of Another Person in the Course of a Violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(c). The Indictment alleges that on a date uncertain to the grand jury, in or about September 1999, within the Eastern District of Oklahoma, in India $ (12-19-2025 - OK) |
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