Delaware First Amendment Law
State of Delaware v. Don Eugene Nixon III
Wilmington, Delaware, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with first degree murder. Don Eugene Nixon III was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of 20-year-old Da’Jour Ellison. The defendant was arrested after officers conducted a traffic stop.... More...
$ (02-03-2026 - DE)State of Delaware v. John Taggart
Wilmington, Delaware, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Dangerous Crimes Against a Child. In June 2022, the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington received an anonymous complaint alleging that John Taggart ("Defendant") sexually abused multiple complainants between May 1, 1995, and June 15, 1996 while working as a priest at St. Thomas the Apostle church in Wilmington. ... More...
$ (02-03-2026 - DE)<H2> United States of America ex rel. Verity Investigations, LLC v. Nikon SLM Solutions NA, Inc.
Wilmington, Delaware, commercial litigation lawyers represented the Defendant accused of improperly obtaining a Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”) for which it was not eligible. PPP was an emergency loan program established by Congress in March 2020 under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act and adm... More...
$ (12-16-2025 - DE)<H2> United States of America v. Kimon Burton-Roberson, Jamil Salahuddin, and Stephanie Bultes-Ramirez
Wilmington, Delaware, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with kidnapping and murder committed by members of the Shotgun Crips gang. The Shotgun Crips, including targeted the victim, a 35-year-old Wilmington resident, after he and Burton-Roberson became embroiled in a dispute. Shortly after midnight on July 21, 2021, members of the gang—including Burton-Roberson, Sal... More...
$ (12-13-2025 - DE)State of Delaware v. Marsaan Newman
Wilmington, Delaware, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Robbery First Degree and Assault Second Degree.<br> <br> The Defendant filed a motion for postconviction relief.... More...
$0 (11-18-2025 - DE)State of Delaware v. Dejuan Robinson
Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of Manslaughter, four counts of first-degree assault, and five counts of first-degree reckless endangerment.<br> <br> On August 21, 2024, shortly after 11 p.m., officials said. Dejuan Robinson, age 27, had been pulled over by Delaware state troopers for driving 60 mph ... More...
$0 (11-21-2025 - DE)<h1> United States of America v. Jady Solano </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Illegal Reentry </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Former Wilmington Tax Preparer Sentenced to 80 Months in Federal Prison</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <br> A Wilmington man ... More...
$0 (07-28-2025 - de)United States of America v. Shakira Martinez
Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking.<br> <br> A jury in the District of Delaware convicted Shakira Martinez of numerous money laundering offenses related to her involvement in a drug trafficking operation run by her husband and co-defendant Omar Morales Colon. The District Court sentenced Martinez to 108 months of imprisonment. After... More...
$0 (05-23-2025 - DE)State of Delware v. John McCurdy </center
Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of drugs.<br> <br> Legal issue Was the anonymous tip sufficiently corroborated to establish probable cause through a canine sniff detecting drugs in the defendant's storage unit?<br> Headnote<br> <br> CRIMINAL LAW. FOURTH AMENDMENT SEARCH AND SEIZURE. The court addressed whether an anonymous tip regardin... More...
$0 (03-10-2025 - DE)United States of America v. Nahsiem McIntosh
Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with firearm felonies.<br> <br> On a spring night in 2020, McIntosh smashed the glass front door of the American Sportsman in Newark, Delaware,<br> and entered with codefendant Derris Lloyd. After breaking several display cases, McIntosh and Lloyd grabbed a mix of<br> handguns and larger firearms, including an AR-15-sty... More...
$0 (12-23-2024 - DE)Loren Chanderl v. Bayhealth Medical Center, Inc.
<h2><br> Wilmington, Delaware employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a employment discrimination theory.<br> <hh2><br> On May 29, 2018, Defendant hired Plaintiff.[4] Defendant first allegedly discriminated against Plaintiff on the basis of race in January 2020, and Plaintiff first allegedly suffered retaliation in March 2020, when she was transferred to another role in Defend... More...
$0 (12-05-2024 - DE)Acceleration Bay, LLC v. Amazon Web Services, Inc.
<h2><br> Wilmington, Delaware patent lawyers represented the Plaintiff which sought damages for infringement.<br> </h2><br> Acceleration Bay, LLC sued Amazon Web Services, Inc. on a patent infringement theory claiming that Amazon's CloudFront content-delivery system and Virtual Private Cloud virtual network infringe two patents owned by Acceleration Bay LLC.<br> <br> Amazon argued that its techno... More...
$0 (10-01-2024 - DE)<h1> United States of America v. Raymond Talley </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Attempted Sale of More Than A Pound of Crystal Methamphetamine </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Philadelphia Man Sentenced To 160 Months in Prison for Attempted Sale of More Than A Pound of Crystal Methamphetamine </h2></center></b></b> ... More...
$0 (03-25-2024 - DE)<h1> United States of America v. Raymond Talley </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center><i> Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Attempted Sale of More Than A Pound of Crystal Methamphetamine.</font color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><br> <b><h2><center><i></b> Philadelphia Man Sentenced To 160 Months in Prison for Attempted Sale of More Than A Pound of Crystal Methamphetamine </h2></center></i></fo... More...
$0 (03-26-2024 - DE)<h1> United States of America v. Mussay Rezene </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center><i> Washington, DC criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with First-Degree Murder.</font color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><br> <b><h2><center><i></b> District Man Sentenced for First-Degree Murder While Armed in Shooting Death of 17-Year-Old </h2></center></i></font color="red"><br> <br> Mussay Rezene, 31, of Washington, D.C., was senten... More...
$0 (03-23-2024 - DE)<h1> United States of America v. Tyron Hines </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center><i>Washington DC criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Assaulting Law Enforcement.</font color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><center><i></b> Defendant Hurled Object at Police and Charged Police Line with Stolen Riot Shield </h2></center></i></font color="red"><br> <br> A Texas man was sentenced on March 21, 2024, after he pleaded ... More...
$0 (03-22-2024 - DE)<h1> United States of America v. James Richard Smith III </h1>
<b><h2><center><font color="red"><i> Wilmington, Delaware Criminal Defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Drug Distribution and Firearm Possession.</b></h2></center></i></font color="red"></i><br> <b><h3><center><i></b> </h3></ceDavid C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware announced that a Delaware man <br> <br> David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaw... More...
$0 (01-31-2024 - DE)<h1> United States of America v. James Richard Smith III </h1>
<b><h2><center><font color="red"><i> Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged withDrug Distribution and Firearm Possession.</b></h2></center></i></font color="red"></i><br> <b><h3><center><i></b> </h3></center></i><br> <br> <br> David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware announced that a Delaware man was sentenced on Monday to 135 months in f... More...
$0 (01-31-2024 - DE)<H2> State of Delaware v. Mark Purnell </H2>
Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder in the second degree, attempted robbery in the first degree, conspiracy in the second degree, and related firearms charges. <br> <br> In the early evening hours of January 30, 2006, Ernest and Tameka Giles were walking along the sidewalk near Fifth and Willing Streets in Wilm... More...
$0 (04-02-2008 - DE)Elmer Daniels v. United States of America, et al.
Wilmington, Delaware personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on Federal Tort Claim Act civil rights violation theories.<br> <br> <h2>The Complaint</h2><br> <br> <br> Plaintiff Elmer Daniels, by his undersigned attorneys, files this Complaint against the United<br> States of America, Michael P. Malone, the City of Wilmington, Philip Saggione III, and John Does<br> ... More...
$0 (12-11-2020 - DE)Perry Beeney et al. v. FCA U.S., LLC, et al.
Providence, Rhode Island consumer law lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who sued the Defendant on consumer protection, common law money had and received and unjust enrichment theories.<br> <br> Plaintiffs' First Amended Class Action Complaint (hereinafter, the Complaint) alleges statutory consumer protection claims, common law money had and received claims, and unjust enrichment claims under Flor... More...
$0 (10-20-2023 - DE)Elmer Daniels v. United States of America, et al.
Plaintiff Elmer Daniels, by his undersigned attorneys, files this Complaint against the United<br> States of America, Michael P. Malone, the City of Wilmington, Philip Saggione III, and John Does<br> 1-10 for violating his rights and causing his wrongful incarceration. He alleges as follows:<br> INTRODUCTION<br> 1. In 1980, Elmer Daniels, an 18-year-old black male, was wrongfully convicted of<br> ... More...
$0 (07-06-2023 - DE)Rachel Delo Ache Williams v. Netflix, Inc.
Rachel DeLoache Williams has sued Netflix, Inc. for defamation based on Netflix's portrayal of Williams in its docudrama series Inventing Anna. D.I. 1 ¶ 1. Inventing Anna tells the story of Anna Sorokin, Williams's one-time friend who "conned the New York elite into believing that [Anna] was a German heiress.†D.I. 1 ¶ 28. Netflix, a Delaware corporation with its principal place of busines... More...
$0 (05-17-2023 - DE)US Dominion, Inc., et al. v. Fox News Network, L.L.C.
Wilmington, Delaware commercial litigation lawyers represented Plaintiff that sued Defendant on a defamation theory.<br> <br> This was a civil action involving a defamation claim. Plaintiff alleged that Defendant, Fox News Network, published false and defamatory statements of fact about Dominion.<br> <br> Dominion Voting Systems sued Fox New claiming to have suffered $1.6 billion in damages as a ... More...
$787500000 (04-18-2023 - DE)United States of America v. Teres Tinnin
Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to stake and stalking.<br> <table><br> <h1><br> <center><br> <P><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Wilmington_DE_FED.jpg" alt="Federal Courthouse - Wilmington, Delaware"><br> <P><br> Federal Courthouse - Wilmington, Delaware<br> <P><br> <a font="red" href="https://... More...
$0 (03-02-2023 - DE)State of Delaware v. Elmer Daniels
Wilmington, DE: On January 15, 1980, a 15-year-old girl reported she had been raped along the railroad tracks in Wilmington, Delaware.<br> <br> School was out that day because of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and the girl, known as G.S., said she had been at a party with some friends. She left about 5 p.m. with a 15-year-old boy, known as K.C., to call a friend from a telephone at a gas ... More...
$0 (01-14-2023 - DE)State of Delaware v. Noah Sharp
Wilmington, Delaware criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder.<br> <br> Noah Sharp was accused of conspiring with Annika Stalczynski to kill his ex-girlfriend, Madison Sparrow, age 17, on or about October 2, 2020.<br> <br> ... More...
$0 (10-27-2022 - DE)<H2> Debra R. Thompson v. State of Delaware Department of Services for Children, et al.
Wilmington, Delaware civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of her right to due process and under state law against the State of Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth and their Families ("DSCYFâ€) and several individual defendants after Thompson was demoted and eventually terminated from DSCYF. The District Court ... More...
$0 (08-22-2022 - DE)United States of America v. Thomas E. Noble
Wilmington, Delaware criminal law lawyer represented defendant charged with possession of child pornography.<br> <br> A grand jury indicted Noble in February 2018 on one<br> count of attempted receipt of child pornography by someone<br> previously convicted of a child pornography offense, in<br> violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2252(a)(2), 2252(b)(1) and<br> 2256(2)(A), and one count of possession ... More...
$0 (08-02-2022 - DE)State of Delaware v. Michael Toombs
Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with first-degree murder and possession of a deadly weapon.<br> <br> Michael Toombs,a ge 25, of Chester, Pennsylvania was accused of killing Roger Williams in January 2020. Williams was found dead in his apartment on Lancaster Pike, near Greenville.<br> <br> Toombs pleaded not guilty.<br> <br> The victim was shot twice. On... More...
$0 (03-21-2022 - DE)United States of America v. Samuel Gulick
Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with fire-bombing a Planned Parenthood facility in Newark, Delaware in January 2020. <br> <br> Samuel Gulick, of Middletown, was for crimes associated with fire-bombing a Planned Parenthood facility in Newark, Delaware in January 2020. <br> <br> According to court documents and statements made in open court, at approximat... More...
$0 (03-13-2022 - DE)United States of America v. Jose E. Mateo-Nina
Wilmington, Delaware drug distribution charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Jose E. Mateo-Nina, age 33 of Wilmington.<br> <br> on May 1, 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers identified a parcel being sent from Mexico to Wilmington, Delaware. The parcel contained a wheelchair. A search warrant was obtained for the parcel, and over 600 grams of heroin were disco... More...
$0 (07-03-2021 - DE)United States of America v. Adrian Wood
<center><img width="600" src="https://www.ded.uscourts.gov/sites/ded/files/images/BLD2.jpg"></center><br> Wilmington, DE - The United States of America charged Adrian Wood, age 21, with engaging in a civil disorder that obstructed, impeded, or interfered with a law enforcement officer’s lawful duties. <br> <br> If convicted, Wood faces a statutory maximum punishment of up to five years in prison... More...
$0 (06-13-2020 - DE)United States of America v. Roy Horsey
<center><h1><p style="border:3px; border-style:solid; border-color:#FF0000; padding:<br> 0em;"><a href="http://www.callmorelaw.com/" target="_new">MoreLaw Receptionists</a></br><font Color="Red">VOIP Phone and Virtual Receptionist Services<br> Call 918-582-6422 Today<br> </font></h1><P></center> <br> <br> <br> Wilmington, DE - The United States of America charged Roy Horsey with drug distribution.... More...
$0 (03-23-2020 - DE)United States of America v. Crystal Martin
Wilmington, DE - The United States of America charged Crystal Martin with accepting bribes.<br> <br> Crystal Martin, former Associate Registrar at Delaware State University, was sentenced to 15 months’ incarceration. <br> <br> According to court documents and statements made in open court, between 2013 and 2017, Martin accepted bribes from co-defendant Stephen Williams in order to change the re... More...
$0 (02-24-2020 - DE)United States of America v. Tae H. Kim
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.usmarshals.gov/district/de/locations/delaware.jpg"><br> </center><br> Wilmington, DE - Former Banker Sentenced To 18 Months In Federal Prison For Fraud<br> <br> District Judge Richard G. Andrews sentenced Tae Kim, age 49, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, to an 18-month prison sentence for bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. The Court also ordered ... More...
$0 (10-03-2019 - DE)Weih Steve Chang v. Children's Advocacy Center of Delaware
<center><br> <img width="200" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Seal_of_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Third_Circuit.svg/150px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Third_Circuit.svg.png"><br> </center><br> Weih Chang appeals the District Court’s orders dismissing his complaint under the False Claims Act (“FCA”) and its Delaware counterpa... More...
$0 (09-13-2019 - DE)United States of America v. Breyon Richardson
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.usmarshals.gov/district/de/locations/delaware.jpg"><br> </center><br> Wilmington, DE - Federal Alum Gets Additional 3.5 Years for Attempted Illegal AR-15 Rifle Purchase<br> <br> Breyon Richardson, age 28, of Newark, Delaware, was sentenced today to 42 months in federal prison for illegally aiding and abetting attempted illegal purchases of an AR-15 ri... More...
$0 (04-13-2019 - DE)James R. Adams v. Governor of Delaware
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.usmarshals.gov/district/de/locations/delaware.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> James R. Adams is a resident and member of the State Bar of Delaware. For some time, he has expressed a desire to be considered for a judicial position in that state. Following the announcement of several judicial vacancies, Adams considered applying but ultimately chose not to... More...
$0 (04-10-2019 - DE)Tamra N. Robinson v. First State Community Action Agency
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.usmarshals.gov/district/de/locations/delaware.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> Tamra Robinson was told by her manager Karen Garrett that her work performance was so poor that “you either don’t know what you’re doing, or you have a disability, or [you’re] dyslexic.” Taking Garrett’s words seriously, Robinson, who had never before considered the... More...
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