Delaware Last Clear Chance Law

<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...

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<h1> United States of America v. Darius Matylewich </h1></h1>

<h2><center> Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with coercion and enticement of a minor. </font/color="red"></center><center> Delaware Man Sentenced To 240 Months For Coercing 11-Year-Old New Jersey Resident To Travel To Delaware For Sexual Activity</h2></center></center></> </font/col... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. Robert Dorsey </h1></h1>

<h2><center> Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Trafficking Firearms </font/color="red"></center><center> Thunderguards Motorcycle Club Member Sentenced For Trafficking Firearms</h2></center> </h2></center> Robert Dorsey, 47, of New Jersey, was indicted for traffic... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. Five Point Enterprises LLC </h1>

<h2><center> Washington, DC criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Submitting False Claims to VA for Post-9/11 GI Bill Education Benefits </center><center> Five Point Enterprises Agrees to Pay the United States Over $2M for Submitting False Claims to VA for Post-9/11 GI Bill Education Benefit... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. Paul James Kryscuk; Liam Collins; Justin Wade Hermanson </h1>

<h2><center> Washington DC criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Plot to Destroy Energy Facilities </center><center> Defendants with Ties to White Supremacy Sentenced in Connection with Plot to Destroy Energy Facilities</h2></center> </h2></center> Three men were senten... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. Julius Bakari </h1>

<h2><center> Greenbelt, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a Health Care Fraud Scheme.</h2></center><h2><center> Holy Health Care Services, LLC Owner Sentenced to 3 Years In Federal Prison For Health Care Fraud Scheme </h2></center> Julius Bakari, age 46, of Silver Spring, Maryland, was sent... More...

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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. <h2>The Complaint</h2> Plaintiff Elmer Daniels, by his undersigned attorneys, files this Complaint against the United States of America, Michael P. Malone, the City of Wilmington, Philip Saggione III, and John Does ... More...

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Elmer Daniels v. United States of America, et al.

Plaintiff Elmer Daniels, by his undersigned attorneys, files this Complaint against the United States of America, Michael P. Malone, the City of Wilmington, Philip Saggione III, and John Does 1-10 for violating his rights and causing his wrongful incarceration. He alleges as follows: INTRODUCTION 1. In 1980, Elmer Daniels, an 18-year-old black male, was wrongfully convicted of ... More...

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United States of America v. Jacquez Williams

Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm. On September 23, 2020, Jaquez Williams, age 28, from Wilmington, Delaware, a convicted felon, possessed a loaded semiautomatic pistol when the car he was driving was stopped for a traffic violation. While on bail for the September 23 offense, the defenda... More...

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<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. Â§ 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...

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United States of America v. Patrick Titus

Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with unlawfully distributing drugs and maintaining a drug involved premises. Patrick Titus, 58, of Milford, was convicted by a federal jury in July 2021 of 13 counts of unlawfully distributing and dispensing controlled substances and one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises. "This sentence is a re... More...

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United States of America v. Mark Clark

Wilmington, DE - Bank fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Mark Clark, 45, of Liberia, who was with one count of bank fraud. Clark opened personal and business bank accounts at numerous financial institutions in his own name and in the name of other individuals, including his own deceased relatives, for the purpose of receiving fraudulently obtained wire transfers f... More...

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United States of America v. Walmart, Inc. (Wal-Mart)

Wilmington, DE - In a civil complaint filed today, the Department of Justice has alleged that Walmart Inc. unlawfully dispensed controlled substances from pharmacies it operated across the country and unlawfully distributed controlled substances to those pharmacies throughout the height of the prescription opioid crisis. The complaint alleges that this unlawful conduct resulted in hundre... More...

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United States of America v. Thomas Noble

Wilmington, DE - The United States of America charged Thomas Noble with possession of child porn. A New Castle, Delaware man was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for possessing and attempting to receive child pornography, announced David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware. On October 24, 2019, a federal jury for the District of Delaware found Thomas Noble, ... More...

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United States of America v. Breyon Richardson

<center> <img width="300" src="https://www.usmarshals.gov/district/de/locations/delaware.jpg"> </center> Wilmington, DE - Federal Alum Gets Additional 3.5 Years for Attempted Illegal AR-15 Rifle Purchase 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...

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James R. Adams v. Governor of Delaware

<center> <img width="300" src="https://www.usmarshals.gov/district/de/locations/delaware.jpg"> </center> 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...

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Tamra N. Robinson v. First State Community Action Agency

<center> <img width="300" src="https://www.usmarshals.gov/district/de/locations/delaware.jpg"> </center> 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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Federal Trade Commission v. Shire Viropharma, Inc.

<center> <img width="300" src="http://www.ded.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/BLD2.jpg"> </center> Shire ViroPharma, Inc. (“Shire”),1 manufactured and marketed the lucrative drug Vancocin, which is indicated to treat a life-threatening gastrointestinal infection. After Shire got wind that manufacturers were considering making generic equivalents to Vancocin, it inundated the ... More...

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James R. Adams v. Governor of Delaware

<center> <img width="300" src="http://www.ded.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/BLD2.jpg"> </center> 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 beca... More...

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T Mobile Northeast, LLC v. City of Wilmington, Delaware

<center> <img width="300" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Seal_of_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Second_Circuit.svg/300px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Second_Circuit.svg.png"> <h2> <h2> </h2> </center> No one likes bad cell phone reception or slow streaming data on their smartphone, ... More...

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United States of America v. Navimax Corporation

<center> <img width="300" src="http://www.ded.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/BLD2.jpg"> </center> Wilmington, DE - Shipping Company Sentenced for Illegally Discharging Waste at Sea Navimax Corporation (“Navimax”), incorporated in the Marshall Islands with its main offices in Greece, was sentenced today to a $2,000,000 fine by United States District Court Judge Maryellen ... More...

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. AMY GONZALEZ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. DAVID MATUSIEWICZ <table> <td>

David Matusiewicz1 and Christine Belford were married from 2001 to 2006, during which time they had three children, L.M.1, L.M.2, and K.M.1 (the “children”). The couple and their children also lived with Belford’s one child from a previous marriage, K.M.2.2 After their divorce, Belford and David engaged in a bitter custody dispute, during which David accused Belford of being an unfit mothe... More...

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Brinckerhoff v. Enbridge Energy Company, Inc

The facts are drawn from the Complaint, the operative limited partnership agreements, other documents that are integral to the Complaint and matters of which the Court may take judicial notice. a. The Parties Plaintiff Peter Brinckerhoff (“Brinckerhoff” or “Plaintiff”), individually and as trustee of the Peter R. Brinckerhoff Rev. Tr. U.A. DTD 10/17/97 (the “Trust”)... More...

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In Re: Trump Entertainment Resorts

The facts giving rise to this appeal are undisputed. The Debtors own and operate the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The casino employs 2,953 employees, 1,467 of whom are unionized. UNITE HERE Local 54 is the largest of the employee unions, representing 1,136 employees. The most recent CBA between the Union and Taj Mahal was negotiated in 2011 for a three-year term. It co... More...

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United States of America v. David Matusiewicz and Thomas Matusiewicz and Lenore Matusiewicz and Amy Gonzalez

Three Members of Matusiewicz Family Receive Life Sentences WILMINGTON, Del. – David C. Weiss, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, Kevin L. Perkins, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Baltimore Division, and Nathaniel McQueen, Jr., Colonel, Delaware State Police, announced today that United States District Court Judge Gerald A. McHugh senten... More...

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STATE OF DELAWARE v. LUIS REYES

The bodies of Brandon Saunders and Vaughn Rowe were discovered in a wooded area of Rockford Park in Wilmington, Delaware, on January 21, 1996. Nearly four years later, on December 6, 1999, Luis Reyes ("Reyes") and Luis Cabrera ("Cabrera") were indicted as co-defendants for the murders of Saunders and Rowe ("Rockford Park Murders").1 The State sought the death penalty for both Reyes and Cabrera in ... More...

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Marino v. Patriot Rail Company LLC

The facts are drawn from the affidavits and supporting documents that the parties submitted in connection with their motions for summary judgment. The parties agreed in their briefs and at oral argument that there were no disputes of material fact that would affect the outcome. Pursuant to Court of Chancery Rule 56(h), the cross-motions therefore became “the equivalent of a s... More...

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Parker v. State Of Delaware

This 18th day of February 2016, upon consideration of the briefs of the parties and the record below, it appears to the Court that: (1) The appellant, Myron Parker (“Parker”), filed this appeal from the Superior Court’s June 24, 2015 Sentence Order. He requests that this Court vacate his sentence and remand his case for resentencing. On appeal, Parker asserts that the s... More...

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State of Delaware v. Emmanuel A. Robinson

On November 14, 2014, Defendant Emmanuel A. Robinson pled guilty to one count of Possession of Ammunition by a Person Prohibited. As part of the plea agreement, the State agreed to dismiss all of the remaining charges which included four counts of Possession of a Firearm by a Person Prohibited, four additional counts of Possession of Ammunition by a Person Prohibited, one coun... More...

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State of Delaware v. Gillis

On April 14, 2014, Defendant Steven A. Gillis was indicted on the charges of possession of a firearm by a person prohibited, possession of ammunition by a person prohibited, driving a vehicle while license is suspended or revoked, and failure to wear a seatbelt. 2. The events leading to the charges are as follows: On February 27, 2014, Defendant’s vehicle was stopped fo... More...

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Derose v. State of Delaware

This 8thday of January, 2016, upon consideration of the Appellant Charles J.Derose’s brief filed under Supreme Court Rule 26(c) (“Rule 26(c)”) (made applicable to here via Superior Court Criminal Rule 57(d))1, his attorney’s motion to withdraw, the State’s response, and the record in this case, it appears to the Court that: (“In all cases not provided for by rule or administr... More...

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Franks v. State Of Delaware

In 1992 Jermaine Wright was convicted of Murder in the First Degree, Robbery in the First Degree, and related weapons offenses for his involvement in what was known as the Hi-Way Inn murder/robbery. The Superior Court imposed the death penalty for his conviction of Murder in the First Degree. Prior to trial, Wright moved to suppress a statement he had given to police. He alleged... More...

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State of Delaware v. Tollis

In February 2015, Vincenzo Tollisentered into a plea agreement with the State through which he pleaded guilty to one count of Robbery in theFirst Degree.2He did so in exchange for dismissal of the remaining charges and a favorable sentencing recommendation (the State’s withholding of a habitual criminal petition3 and request for twelve years unsuspended imprisonment4). His sentencing occurred a... More...

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AM General Holdings LLC v. The Renco Group, Inc. -and- The Renco Group, Inc. v. MacAndrews AMG Holdings LLC

These two actions are proceeding in tandem.1 In essence, the Renco Group, Inc. and affiliates (“Renco”) are in a dispute with MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc. and affiliates (“M&F”) about their inter-related investments in Nominal Defendants AM General Holdings LLC (“Holdco”) and Ilshar Capital LLC (“Ilshar”). Currently pending are two motions: M&F has moved to compel disco... More...

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PECO Logistics, LLC v. Walnut Investment Partners, L.P., et al.

In March 2011, two sophisticated investors (the “Walnut Investors”) acquired preferred units in PECO Logistics, LLC (“PECO” or the “Company”) and became parties to an LLC agreement that afforded them the voluntary right to sell their preferred units back to PECO three years later (the “Put Right”). The LLC agreement provides that, upon exercise of the Put Right... More...

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Gerald A. Lechliter v. Del. Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control, et al.

The Plaintiff filed his Verified Complaint on October 11, 2012. The Complaint alleged seven counts against the Defendants: Count I alleges that DNREC violated numerous statutes to illegally build the Turbine; Count II alleges that the City violated statutes and zoning ordinances to illegally issue the Building Permit; Counts III and IV allege violations of the Delaware Freedom... More...

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SIGA Technologies, Inc. v. PharmAthene

In 2004, SIGA acquired technology for ST-246, an antiviral drug for the treatment of smallpox. At that time, the viability, potential uses, safety, and efficacy of the drug, as well as the likelihood of SIGA obtaining regulatory approval or making sales to the government, were, as is typical in this industry, uncertain. By late 2005, SIGA was running out of money, its largest shareholder, MacAndr... More...

$0 (12-23-2015 - DE)

December Corp. v. Wild Meadows Home Owners Association, et al.

Plaintiff December Corporation (“December Corp.”) is a Pennsylvania corporation whose principal business is to manage and maintain housing communities.1 December Corp. manages the Wild Meadows manufactured housing community (“Wild Meadows”), which is an “active adult manufactured housing community”2 located in Dover, Delaware. Defendant Wild Meadows Home Owners Association (“WMHA�... More...

$0 (12-23-2015 - DE)

ESG Capital Partners II, LP, et al. v. Passport Special Opportunities Master Fund, LP, et al.

Non-party Timothy Burns formed ESG Capital Partners II, LP (the ―Partnership‖) for a limited purpose. After raising money from investors, the Partnership would purchase shares of stock of Facebook, Inc. before that company‘s then-anticipated initial public offering. Preferably once Facebook had completed a successful IPO, the Partnership would distribute to its in... More...

$0 (12-20-2015 - DE)

Pipal Tech Ventures Private Limited v. MoEngage, Inc.

Plaintiff Pipal Tech is a closely-held corporation formed in 2011 under the laws of India with its principal place of business in India.4 Pipal Tech is in the business of developing, licensing, and supporting mobile and web-based applications. Non-parties Amit Baid, Raviteja Dodda, and Yashwanth Kumar are the founders of Pipal Tech.6 Dodda and Kumar are also former executives and board The fact... More...

$0 (12-19-2015 - DE)