Idaho Death Penalty Law
<H2> <center> United States of America v. Lajai Jamar Pridgette </h2> </center>
Boise, Idaho, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Mann Act conspiracy to transport for prostitution. Lajai Jamar Pridgette, 40, of Boise, engaged in a scheme to make money from commercial sexual activity. Pridgette arranged for two adult females to travel to multiple states to engage in commercial sexual activity. Pridgette also made hotel reservations and posted onl... More...
$ (01-15-2026 - ID)<H2> <center> Richard L. Stacey, Sr. v. County of Madison, et al. </h2> </center>
Pocatello, Idaho, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued individually and s the natural brother and heir to Edwin B. Stacey, deceased a civil rights violation wrongful death theory.... More...
$ (12-18-2025 - ID)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Scott Mercurio </h1></center></h1>
Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS.<br> <br> Alexander Scott Mercurio, 20, of Coeur d’Alene, pleaded guilty today, to Attempt to Provide Material Support and Resources to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.<br> <br> According to court records, Mercurio pledged his allegiance to ISIS and intende... More...
$0 (10-22-2025 - ID)<h2> <center> State of Idaho v. Robin Lee Row </h2> </center>
Boise, Idaho, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with capital murder.<br> <br> Robin Lee Row was sentenced to death in 1993 for murdering her husband and two<br> children in their sleep on February 10, 1992. Over the next 30 years, Row filed five petitions for<br> post-conviction relief in state court and two federal habeas corpus claims, all of which were<br> unsuccessful.... More...
$0 (09-26-2025 - ID)<h2> <center> State of Idaho v. Saengutone Ty Maria </h2> </center>
Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder.<br> <br> Saengutone Ty Maria, 33, of Nampa, Idaho was charged with first-degree murder.<br> <br> Police responded to several calls of shots fired and the possibility of an injury in the parking lot of a hotel in the 4100 block of East Flamingo Ave. in Nampa, and found the victim, who had been shot to d... More...
$0 (08-31-2025 - ID)<h1><center> United States of America v. Twyla Dawn Basil </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center>Coeur d'Alene, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Involvement in a Fentanyl Overdose Death </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Bonners Ferry Woman Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Involvement in a Fentanyl Overdose Death</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Twyla... More...
$0 (12-11-2024 - ID)<h2> <center> Dustin Clover v. Crookham Company </h2> </center>
<h2><br> Caldwell, Idaho worker's compensation lawyer represented the Plaintiff.<br> </h2><br> <br> Crookham Company is a seed production business in Caldwell, Idaho. In 2008, Crookham was looking for equipment to remove drip tape from its onion fields. Crookham could not find such equipment for purchase on the market but found similar equipment that other farmers had built. Using another farm's l... More...
$0 (10-28-2024 - ID)<h1><center> United States of America v. Gordon Milton Bennett, Jr. </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged withdomestic assault by habitual offender </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Habitual Domestic Violence Sends Lapwai Man to Federal Prison</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Gordon Milton Bennett, Jr., 46, of Lapwai, was sentenced to ... More...
$0 (07-30-2024 - ID)<h2><center> Lacey Mark Sivak v. Jay Christensen </h2></center>
<h2><br> Boise, Idaho civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking a Writ of Habeas Corpus.<br> </h2><br> <br> <br> Petitioner raised his incompetency claim in state court in a petition for postconviction relief. He argued that the prescription medications he was taking during trial and sentencing caused “mood alteration of petitioner, making him unable to understand and participate... More...
$0 (05-08-2024 - ID)<h2> <center> Jeremy Lanningham v. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company of Idaho, et al. </h2> </center>
<h2><br> Boise, Idaho personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a bad faith breach of insurance contract theory.<br> </h2><br> </center><br> <br> This case concerns an insurance company's denial of a claim for underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage by the adult heirs of Jay Lanningham. Lanningham died in a tragic car accident caused by an underinsured motorist.[1] He had an insura... More...
$0 (07-03-2024 - ID)<h1><center> United States of America v. Tanner Lee Goforth </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Selling His Friend Fentanyl Pills Causing His Death </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Co-Worker Who Sold His Friend Fentanyl Pills Causing His Death Sentenced to 84 Months in Federal Prison</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> ... More...
$0 (06-20-2024 - ID)<h2> <center> State of Idaho v. Chad Daybell </h2> </center>criminal
Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant who was charged with multiple counts of capital murder.<br> <br> Chad Daybell, age 55, was chargee in the deaths of his former wife, Tammy Daybell, and two children of his current wife, Lori Vallow Daybell.<br> <br> Tammy Daybell died in late 2019. Vallow Daybell's two youngest children, Tylee Ryan and Joshua Jaxon "JJ" Vallow. Tylee ... More...
$0 (05-30-2024 - ID)<h2> <center> State of Idaho v. Chris Tapp </h2> </center>
Idaho, Falls criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant who was charged with first-degree murder and justice went to hell.<br> <br> Early in the morning of June 13, 1996, Angie Dodge was raped and stabbed to death in her apartment in Idaho Falls. On January 7, 1997, twenty-year-old Christopher Tapp voluntarily submitted to police questioning about this crime at the Law Enforcement Building ... More...
$0 (12-31-1997 - ID)<h2><center> United States of America v. Khadijah X. Chapman </h2></center>
Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraudulently obtaining and misusing a $338,958 Paycheck Protection Program loan that the Small Business Administration (SBA) guaranteed under the Coronavirus Relief Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.<br> <br> Khadijah X. Chapman, 59, of Atlanta, worked with co-conspirators to falsify financial information and submit... More...
$0 (11-16-2023 - ID)<h2> <center> Donald Paradis v. A.J. Arave, Warden, Idaho State Penitentiray, et al. </h2> </center>
Donald Paradis, a state prisoner, appeals from the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.<br> <br> Paradis seeks review of his conviction on the following grounds:<br> <br> One. The evidence was insufficient to demonstrate that Kimberly Palmer was killed in the state of Idaho.<br> <br> Two. The state failed to preserve exculpatory evidence.<br>... More...
$0 (01-24-1992 - ID)<h2> <center> Donald M. Paradis v. A.J. Arve, Warden ISCI </h2> </center>
Boise, Idaho criminal appellate death penalty defense lawyers represented the Plaintiff seeking a writ of habeas corpurs stay of execution.... More...
$0 (06-09-1986 - ID)<h2><center> United States of America v. Hailey M. Card </h2></center>
Pocatello, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of fentanyl.<br> <br> "The distribution of fentanyl is a serious crime in the United States. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. It is often mixed with other drugs, such as heroin or cocaine, without the user's knowledge. This can lead to accidental overdoses a... More...
$0 (10-17-2023 - ID)<h2><center> United States of America v. Ryan A. Bendawald </h2></center>
Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with civil rights violations involving the sexual abuse of women and exchanging favorable police treatment for sexual acts.<br> <br> According to court documents, Ryan A. Bendawald, 41, of Franklin, Tennessee, allegedly abused his position as a law enforcement officer by sexually victimizing women in Idaho. From at least 2017... More...
$0 (10-17-2023 - ID)<h2><center> United States of America v. Joel Waters </h2></center>
Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with interstate stalking.<br> <br> Between October 7 and December 24, 2020, Joel Waters, age 44, traveled between Oregon and Idaho to harass and intimidate the victim who was residing in Boise. Waters took dogs from the victim’s home and car, slashed the tires on the victim’s vehicle, set fire to the victim’s... More...
$0 (08-25-2023 - ID)<h2> <center> State of Idaho v. Lori Vallow Daybell </h2> </center>
Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and grand theft.<br> <br> Lori Vallow, age 49, was accused by the State of Idaho of killing her daughter Tylee ray, age 16, soen Joshua "JJ" Vallow, age 7, and Tammy Daybell, age 49, in 2019.<br> <br> The State alleged and produced evidence to support its position that Vallow co... More...
$0 (05-12-2023 - ID)<h2>State of Idaho v. Vallow Daybell <center> </h2> </center>
Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with multiple counts of conspiracy murder and grand theft in connection with the deaths of Vallow Daybell’s two children: Joshua “JJ†Vallow and Tylee Ryan. Both are also charged in connection with the death of Chad Daybell’s previous wife, Tammy Daybell.<br> <br> The motivation for all the deaths, accord... More...
$0 (04-10-2023 - ID)<h2> <center>State of Idaho v. Bryan Christopher Kohberger </h2> </center>
Moscow, Idaho criminal law lawyer will be representing Defendant charged with burglary and four counts in first-degree murder.<br> <br> Bryan Christopher Kohberger, age 28, is accused of killing Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, who were stabbed to death at a rental home near campus in Moscow, Idaho, sometime in the early morning hours of Nov. 13.<br> <br> Kohberger,... More...
$0 (12-30-2022 - ID)<h2> <center> Christopher Conley Tapp v. State of Idaho </h2> </center>
<br> This Court summarized the facts of this case in State v. Tapp, 136 Idaho 354, 33 P.3d 828 (Ct. App. 2001) as follows:<br> <br> Early in the morning of June 13, 1996, Angie Dodge was raped and stabbed to death in her apartment in Idaho Falls. On January 7, 1997, twenty-year-old Christopher Tapp voluntarily submitted to police questioning about this crime at the Law Enforcement Building (LE... More...
$0 (08-22-2014 - ID)<h2> <center> Christopher Conley Tapp v. State of Idaho </h2> <center>
In his second appeal in this post-conviction case, Christopher Conley Tapp challenges the district court's summary dismissal of his claim that his defense counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to present evidence of his diminished mental capacity in support of his trial motion to suppress his confession as involuntary. Tapp contends that because this Court, in his prior post-convictio... More...
$0 (11-21-2013 - ID)<h2> <center> Christopher Conley Tapp v. State of Idaho </h2> </center>
Early in the morning of June 13, 1996, Angie Dodge was raped and stabbed to death in her apartment in Idaho Falls. On January 7, 1997, twenty-year-old Christopher Tapp voluntarily submitted to police questioning about this crime at the Law Enforcement Building (LEB) in Idaho Falls. Tapp again voluntarily went to the LEB for questioning on January 10. After this interview, Tapp's parents retained p... More...
$0 (03-31-2010 - ID)<h2> <center> State of Idaho v. Christopher C. Tapp </h2> </center>
<br> Christopher C. Tapp appeals from his conviction for first degree murder and rape. Tapp argues that the district court erred by not suppressing the statements he made in a series of police interviews. In the alternative, he contends the sentences imposed are excessive.<br> <br>         I.<br> <br>         FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY<br> <br> �... More...
$0 (07-20-2001 - ID)<h2> <center> State of Idaho v. Christopher Tapp </h2> </center>
Idaho Falls, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder, rape, and use of a deadly weapon in the commission of a felony.<br> <br> Christopher Tapp, age 20, was accused of raping and stabbing Angie Dodge, age 18, to death in her apartment on June 13, 1996. Her body was found when she failed to show up for work.<br> <br> The city’s police department i... More...
$0 (12-31-1998 - ID)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Zane Beckman </h2> </center>
Boise, Idaho criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with producing child pornography in violation of of 18 U.S.C. 2251, which provides:<br> <br> (a) Any person who employs, uses, persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any minor to engage in, or who has a minor assist any other person to engage in, or who transports any minor in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, or in any Ter... More...
$0 (10-18-2022 - ID)<H2> <CENTER> Jeffery Bray and Michelle Bray v. Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections, et. al. </H2> </CENTER>
Boise, Idaho personal injury wrongful death lawyer represented Plaintiff's who sued Defendants on negligence theories claiming more than $75,000 in damages and/or injures as a direct result of the death of Colby James Bray, deceased.<br> <br> <br> Colby James Bray was a resident at the Juvenile Corrections Center-St. Anthony, a facility owned and operated by the IDJC in Fremont County, Idaho. On t... More...
$0 (10-04-2022 - ID)<h2><center> Ford Elsaesser v. Black Diamond Compost, LLC </h2></center>
Boise, Idaho civil litigation lawyer sued Defendants on a real property law theory.<br> <br> This matter has a long and convoluted backstory spanning multiple cases and appeals. The principal actors in this saga are Ford Elsaesser, the personal representative of the Estate of Victoria H. Smith (the "Personal Representative"),[1] and Vernon K. Smith ("Vernon"), a son of Victoria and the attorney fo... More...
$0 (07-08-2022 - ID)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Dakota James Hoffman </h2> </center>
Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with distribution of fentanyl.<br> <br> Dakota James Hoffman, age 29, of Bellevue, distributed oxycodone pills to a man with the initials A.K. who overdosed on fentanyl on April 2, 2020. A review of A.K.’s digital communications revealed that Hoffman had distributed oxycodone pills to A.K. approximately two weeks prior to t... More...
$0 (07-05-2022 - ID)<h2> <center> State of Idaho v. Christopher Conley Tapp </h2> </ceenter>
Idaho Falls, Idaho criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with rape and first-degree murder.<br> <br> <br> Early in the morning of June 13, 1996, Angie Dodge was raped and stabbed to death in her apartment in Idaho Falls. On January 7, 1997, twenty-year-old Christopher Tapp voluntarily submitted to police questioning about this crime at the Law Enforcement Building (LEB) in Idaho F... More...
$0 (05-31-1998 - ID)<h2><center> United States of America v. Sean Robert Wathen </h2> </center>
Coeru D'Alene, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant chargd with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.<br> <br> Sean Robert Wathen worked with Larry Junior Hillbroom and others to acquire and smuggle methamphetamine through international airports between North Idaho and the Pacific Islands of Guam and Palau. Wathen acquired pounds of methamphetamine for Hillbroom over several m... More...
$0 (05-18-2022 - ID)<h2> <center> State of Idaho v. Brian Leigh Dripps, Sr. </h2> </center>
Idaho Falls, Idaho first-degree murder charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Brian Leigh Dripps, Sr., age 55, who was charged with killing and raping an 18-year-old woman in 1996, a crime for which another man was wrongfully convicted and incarcerated for 20 years.<br> <br> The mother of Angie Dodge sought to have investigators take another look at the evidence, including DNA, evid... More...
$0 (06-09-2021 - ID)<center> <h2> United States of America v. Douglas Wold </h2> </center>
Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering.<br> <br> Douglas Wold, 48, of Meridian, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, one count of mail fraud, and one count of money laundering based on schemes to defraud his employer, Fry Foods, Inc., during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael ... More...
$0 (05-19-2021 - ID)<center> <h2> United States of America v. Andrew Welch </h2> </center>
Pocatello, Idaho criminal defense bankruptcy fraud charge lawyer represented Andrew Welch, 46, of Idaho Falls, was concealment of assets in bankruptcy.<br> <br> According to court records, Welch, a former pharmacist in Ketchum, Idaho, filed a voluntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition on April 3, 2014, after the Idaho State Board of Pharmacy revoked his pharmacist license. In the bankruptcy petition... More...
$0 (01-09-2021 - ID)<center> <h2> United States of America v. Andrew Welch </h2> </center>
Pocatello, Idaho criminal defense bankruptcy fraud lawyer<br> <br> Andrew Welch, 46, of Idaho Falls, was charged with concealment of assets in bankruptcy.<br> <br> According to court records, Welch, a former pharmacist in Ketchum, Idaho, filed a voluntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition on April 3, 2014, after the Idaho State Board of Pharmacy revoked his pharmacist license. In the bankruptcy petiti... More...
$0 (12-28-2020 - ID)<center> <h2> State of Idaho v. Christopher Tapp </h2> </center>
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Bonneville_County_Courthouse_Idaho_Falls.png/220px-Bonneville_County_Courthouse_Idaho_Falls.png"><br> </center><br> Idaho Falls, ID - The State of Idaho charged Christopher Tapp in 1997 with the rape and murder of 18-year-old Angie Dodge. Tapp had confessed to the crime even though DNA recovered from the ... More...
$0 (07-19-2019 - ID)<center> <h2> United States of America v. Randall Alan Franz <P> <img width="300" src="http://www.mtd.uscourts.gov/sites/mtd/files/slides/Missouri.jpg"> <P> Montana District Federal Courthouse - Missoula, Montana </h2> </center>
Missoula, MT - Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Concealing Assets During His Bankruptcy<br> <br> Randall Alan Franz, a 59-year-old resident of Sandpoint, Idaho, was sentenced on Thursday to 8 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $205,084.79 in restitution after pleading guilty to concealing assets in bankruptcy. Chief U.S. District Judge Dana Christ... More...
$0 (08-20-2018 - ID)<center><h2>STATE OF IDAHO v. PHILLIP R. SMALLEY</h2> <table> <td> <img width="300" src="https://www.ktvb.com/img/resize/content.ktvb.com/photo/2016/05/03/Smalley_1462298526382_2083077_ver1.0.png?mode=pad&bgcolor=000000&scale=both&width=750&height=422"> </td> </table></center><center><h2><FONT COLOR="red"> Sexual abuse of a vulnerable adult </FONT> </h2>
Smalley was employed at an assisted living facility and worked alone as the overnight caregiver. The victim, F.B., was a 102-year-old patient at the facility who had arthritis, wore <br> hearing aids, and spoke with a low voice. Her hands were deformed from the arthritis, she could only eat with a large-handled spoon, and she had difficulty swallowing. F.B. could not walk, sit up, stand, dress ... More...
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