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Jennifer Finnerty v. NCAA
Indianapolis, Indiana personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a negligence theory. <br> <table><br> <h1><br> <center><br> <P><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Indianapolis_IN_State.jpg" alt="State Courthouse - Indianapolis, Indiana"><br> <P><br> State Courthouse - Indianapolis, Indiana</a><br> <P><br> <a font="red" href="http... More...
$0 (02-17-2023 - IN)United States of America v. Flexsteel Industries, Inc.
Hammond, Indiana civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant, Flexsteel, which was accused of contaminating the grand water of Elkhart, Indiana.<br> <br> According to the complaint filed simultaneously with the proposed consent decree in the Northern District of Indiana, Flexsteel is liable for the cleanup because its former manufacturing operations contributed to contamination at the Lane Stre... More...
$0 (10-24-2022 - IN)John D. Messmore v. State of Indiana
<center><h2><font color="red">Franklin, IN - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with larceny of merchanise.</h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> On September 18, 2019, Robert Chastain, an asset protection associate for the<br> J.C. Penney store at the Greenwood Mall, received a report of suspicious<br> activity at the fine jewelry department. Chastain went to that part of the s... More...
$0 (11-25-2020 - IN)Michael Koetter v. State of Indiana
<center><h2><font color="red">Indianapolis, IN - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with possession of child porn.</h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> In August of 2016, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Detective Laura Smith<br> received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children<br> (“NCMEC”) about suspected child pornography on a Gmail account,<br>... More...
$0 (11-25-2020 - IN)Jennifer Cook v. State of Indiana
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$0 (08-27-2020 - IN)United States of America v. Kenya Dake
<center><br> <img width="400" src="https://www.insd.uscourts.gov/sites/insd/files/steckler_ct_rm.png"><br> </center><br> <br> Indianapolis, IN - The United States of America charged Kenya Dake, age 51, with grand theft.<br> <br> The government charged the defendant with perpetrating a 4 ½-year scheme to steal nearly $540,000 from her employer, an Indianapolis-based small business. <br> <br> “Fr... More...
$0 (06-27-2020 - IN)Sebastian S. Smith v. State of Indiana
<center><br> <table><br> <td><br> <img width="400" src=" https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2019/08/01/PLAI/564367d4-fc1c-4a0a-8784-fe44f5928e91-Smith_Sebastian.JPG?crop=479,270,x0,y113&width=1600&height=800&fit=bounds"> <br> </td><br> </table><br> <h2> <font color="red"><br> Lafayette robber sentenced to 35 years in prison</font> </h2><br> </center><br> <br> <br> <br> Sebastian S. Smith shot ... More...
$0 (06-19-2020 - IN)United States of America v. Paul J. Elmer
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.insd.uscourts.gov/sites/insd/files/indianapolis.png"><br> </center><br> Indianapolis, IN - Former CEO Sentenced to Prison for Defrauding Food and Drug Administration and Distributing Adulterated Drugs<br> <br> The former president of a drug compounding company was sentenced to prison for his convictions for conspiring to defraud the Food and Drug Admin... More...
$0 (09-20-2019 - IN)United States of America v. Kenneth Morrison
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/ephox_images/Exterior01-LR_6884017449098443525_1434982141863.jpg"><br> </center><br> Hammond, IN - Whiting Man Sentenced To Prison And Ordered To Pay Restitution To The City Of Hammond<br> <br> Kenneth Morrison, age 69, of Whiting, Indiana, was sentenced before United States District Court Judge Philip P. Simon on September 5, 2019. ... More...
$0 (09-06-2019 - IN)Paula Casillas v. Madison Avenue Associates, Inc.
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.insd.uscourts.gov/sites/insd/files/indianapolis.png"><br> </center><br> The bottom line of our opinion can<br> be succinctly stated: no harm, no foul. Madison Avenue Associates,<br> Inc. made a mistake. The Fair Debt Collection Practices<br> Act requires debt collectors to notify consumers about the<br> 2 No. 17‐3162<br> process that the statute ... More...
$0 (06-04-2019 - IN)Matthew Schutz v. State of Indiana
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$0 (05-29-2019 - IN)United States of America v. Paul J. Elmer
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.insd.uscourts.gov/sites/insd/files/indianapolis.png"><br> </center><br> Indianapolis, IN - Former CEO Convicted of Defrauding Food and Drug Administration and Distributing Adulterated Drugs<br> <br> A jury convicted Paul J. Elmer, the former CEO and owner of Pharmakon Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Pharmakon), of conspiracy to defraud the Food and Drug Administ... More...
$0 (04-11-2019 - IN)Steven Linville v. State of Indiana
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$0 (03-25-2019 - IN)United States of America v. Geraldo Colon
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.insd.uscourts.gov/sites/insd/files/indianapolis.png"><br> </center><br> Geraldo Colon used his Indianapolis<br> furniture store and a related business as a front to hide his<br> more lucrative enterprise: buying large quantities of cocaine<br> and heroin from Arizona and reselling the drugs to local dealers<br> in Indiana. For his role as a middleman i... More...
$0 (03-23-2019 - IN)Tyson Timbs v. Indiana
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/images/CourtBuilding.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> Tyson Timbs pleaded guilty in Indiana state court to dealing in a controlled substance and conspiracy to commit theft. The trial court sentenced him to one year ofhome detention and five years of probation, which included a court-supervised addiction-treatment program. The senten... More...
$0 (02-21-2019 - IN)Jabreeh Cash Davis-Martin v. State of Indiana
Jabreeh Cash Davis-Martin was convicted of murder for the brutal beating <br> death of Jodie Henderson in South Bend in January 2016. He now appeals his <br> Court of Appeals of Indiana | Opinion 71A05-1712-CR-2963 | February 4, 2019 Page 2 of 32 <br> <br> conviction on a variety of grounds as well as his maximum sentence of sixty<br> five years. Specifically, Davis-Martin contends that (1) the... More...
$0 (02-09-2019 - IN)Danny Sherrod v. State of Indiana
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$0 (10-22-2018 - IN)Naperville Smart Meter Awareness v. City of Naperville
The City of Naperville owns and op-erates a public utility that provides electricity to the city’s res-idents. The utility collects residents’ energy-consumption data at fifteen-minute intervals. It then stores the data for up to three years. This case presents the question whether Naper-ville’s collection of this data is reasonable under the Fourth<br> 2 No. 16-3766<br> Amendment of the U.S... More...
$0 (08-17-2018 - IN)Kristopher Kanable v. State of Indiana <table> <td>
On Friday, May 6, 2016, four men—Kanable, Xzavier Jordan, Brenton Hoppes, and Jason White—spent the day together, first in Kokomo and then in Lafayette. Jordan drove the men around in his white SUV. While together, the men concocted a plan to take property from a house while armed with a gun. Court of Appeals of Indiana | Memorandum Decision 18A-CR-195 | August 9, 2018 Page 3 of 1... More...
$0 (08-12-2018 - IN)United States of America v. James Burkhart
Indianapolis, IN - Former health care chief executive sentenced to 9.5 years in federal prison<br> <br> James Burkhart’s conspiracy reaped nearly $19.4 million in fraud and kickbacks, funding<br> private jets, vacation homes, diamond jewelry, and gold bars<br> <br> United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler today announced the sentencing of the former CEO of American Senior Communities (ASC) in a m... More...
$0 (07-07-2018 - IN)Adrian Durden Appellant -v– State of Indiana <table> <td>
Adrian Durden’s first trial for murder resulted in a hung jury. He was tried a second time for murder along with eight drug-related charges. Just under two hours after the jury had begun its deliberations, one of the jurors—Juror 12—sent a note to the court requesting to be excused from service because she “[could] not agree quickl[y] on the charges [or] come to a decision on the charges.�... More...
$0 (06-26-2018 - IN)United States of America v. Thomas Goralczyk
Hammond, IN - Former Merrillville Town Councilor Sentenced<br> <br> In Connection With The Town’s Towing Contract<br> <br> Thomas Goralczyk, age 51, of Merrillville, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen on his plea of guilty to a federal bribery charge. <br> <br> Goralczyk was sentenced to 15 months in prison with the court acknowledging that he had alrea... More...
$0 (06-07-2018 - IN)Paul J. Elmer v. Indiana Pharmacy Board <table> <td>
On July 5, 2017, the State of Indiana petitioned the Board for summary <br> suspension of Elmer, alleging that he was “a clear and immediate danger to the <br> public health and safety if allowed to operate as a R.Ph. in Indiana.” <br> Appellant’s App. Vol. II p. 91. A federal grand jury had indicted Elmer for <br> violations of federal drug laws by prior to the filing of this petition. O... More...
$0 (04-10-2018 - IN)United states of America v. Ronald Tingle
Ronald Tingle was tried and convicted<br> of possessing and distributing methamphetamine and<br> of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking<br> crime. On appeal, he argues that the district court erred when<br> it allowed a government witness to give expert testimony<br> without properly vetting the witness’s credentials and when<br> it allowed the same witness to testify regar... More...
$0 (01-27-2018 - IN)United states of America v. Jeffrey J. Wilson
A grand jury indicted Jeffrey Wilson,<br> in a twenty-one-count indictment, with the following<br> offenses: (1) fraud in connection with the purchase or sale of<br> securities, in violation of 15 U.S.C. §§ 78j(b) and 78ff, and 17<br> C.F.R. § 240.10b-5 (Count 1); (2) fraud in the offer or sale of<br> securities, in violation of 15 U.S.C. §§ 77q(a) and 77x, and 18<br> U.S.C. § 2 (Count 2); (... More...
$0 (01-12-2018 - IN)Darryl Calvin v. State of Indiana <table> <td>
Darryl Calvin broke into a Fort Wayne home and stole a PlayStation 4, a sixty-inch plasma television, and a pair of gym shoes. Thanks to a vigilant neighborhood watch, he was promptly caught and arrested. The State charged Calvin with Level 4 felony burglary and alleged that he was a habitual offender based on two prior convictions. Both of those convictions were Class 1 felony residential burgla... More...
$0 (01-04-2018 - IN)United States of America v. Wanda Shorter
In 2014, following investigations by the Indiana Attorney General and FBI, a grand jury issued a four-count indictment for Medicaid fraud against defendants Wanda Shorter and her company, Empowerment Non-Emer-gency Medical Transport, Inc. (“Empowerment”). Specifically,<br> ∗ Of the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting by designation.<br> 2 No. 16-2053<br> Shorter and Empowerment were c... More...
$0 (11-01-2017 - IN)Michael D. Faucett v. United States of America
Michael Faucett possessed large quantities of child pornography, some of which he produced himself. His collection included 59 sexually explicit photos of his five-year-old granddaughter that he took while she was sleeping. When investigators searched his computer and found the collection, he initially denied knowledge of it. But he confessed when they confronted him with the porno-graphic picture... More...
$0 (09-27-2017 - IN)United States of America v. Martin Jakubowski
Hammond, IN - Indiana Animal Control Officer Pleads Guilty to Interstate Diversion of Veterinary Drugs<br> <br> Investigation Snares Martin Jakubowski for Providing Assistance to Suspected Dog Fighter<br> <br> The Acting Superintendent of Animal Control and Parks for the city of Whiting, Indiana, pleaded guilty on August 24, 2017 to diverting prescription veterinary antibiotics that were the prope... More...
$0 (08-24-2017 - IN)State of Tennessee v. Kaylecia Woodard <table> <td>
The defendant’s conviction relates to the June 16, 2014 robbery of the Grocery and Tobacco Market on Maryville Pike in Knoxville. On that date, Anthony <br> -2<br> Smith robbed the store clerk, Mohammed Islam, at gunpoint. Mr. Islam described the offense at trial:<br> What actually happened is I am working and my employee called me, I was talking to them. And one guy – with the bandana, he ... More...
$0 (06-18-2017 - IN)United States of America v. Rita Law
Hammond, IN - Federal Jury Convicts on Sex Trafficking and Involuntary Servitude Charges<br> <br> Rita Law, 58, of Chicago, Illinois, and Crystal Wireman, 32, of Lake Station, Indiana, were found guilty following a 3-week jury trial.<br> <br> The jury rendered guilty verdicts on all counts against Defendant Rita Law. Law was initially charged in October 2013 with transporting a woman in interstate... More...
$0 (02-15-2017 - IN)<b>Robert L. Dowell v. State of Indiana </b>
On the evening of February 18, 2014, Officer Flaude Dillon (“Dillon”) of the <br> Logansport Police Department (“LPD”) was speaking with Sabrina Brewer <br> (“Brewer”) in the lobby of the Cass County jail. Dillon had been summoned to <br> the jail by the Cass County sheriff, to whom Brewer had earlier reported what <br> she was then telling Dillon: Brewer had just been to a home on Wab... More...
$0 (01-01-2017 - IN)<b>Jeffrey S. Heironimus v. State of Indiana </b></h2.
In May 2011, Heironimus was charged with Class C felony robbery for robbing <br> a bank in Evansville. The State also alleged that he was an habitual offender.1 <br> In January 2012, the State also charged Heironimus with Class D felony <br> attempted obstruction of justice and again alleged that he was an habitual <br> offender. The State alleged that Heironimus “knowingly sen[t] a letter to... More...
$0 (10-20-2016 - IN)<b>Bernie C. Harmon v. State of Indiana </b></h2.
Harmon and his wife, Melissa Harmon (“Melissa”) (collectively “the <br> Harmons”) lived in Crawford County, Indiana with their biological son, K.H.,. <br> and biological daughter, W.H. The Harmons drove school buses and operated a <br> car repair shop near their home. In 2005, the Harmons became foster parents to <br> five children1 (“the Children”). C.H.2, S.H.3, and C.A.H., 4 who wer... More...
$0 (10-20-2016 - IN)<b>GARY MARTIN V. STEPHEN O'DANIEL AND MIKE SAPP V. STEPHEN O'DANIEL AND BOBBY MOTLEY V. STEPHEN O'DANIEL </b></h2.
Stephen O'Daniel is a retired Kentucky State Police (KSP) officer. He was <br> employed by the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet as Executive Director of the <br> Office of Investigations when he purchased what was purportedly a 1974 <br> Chevrolet Corvette. After discovering that the vehicle was actually a 1975 <br> Corvette, O'Daniel sought the assistance of Detective Riley of KSP's stolen <br> ... More...
$0 (09-26-2016 - IN)<b><h3>Phillip M. Geans v. State of Indiana </b></h3>
On January 11, 1988, sixteen-year-old Theresa Burns was killed in her home. <br> She had come home during a break in her school schedule and was talking to <br> her boyfriend, Shawn Matthews, on the telephone. Matthews heard Burns’ <br> doorbell ring as he was ending his telephone call with her. When Burns’ older <br> brother, Steve, returned to the Burns’ home later that evening, he disc... More...
$0 (09-17-2016 - IN)United States of America v. Luis Allen Perez aka LA
HAMMOND – East Chicago Man Indicted On Murder and RICO Charges<br> <br> United States Attorney David A. Capp announced that a federal grand jury in Hammond returned a 9 count superseding indictment charging Luis Allen Perez a.k.a. “LA”, 26, of East Chicago, Indiana with murder in aid of racketeering activity & RICO conspiracy in addition with numerous other charges. <br> <br> According to th... More...
$0 (08-19-2016 - IN)Micah Ormsby v. State of Indiana
On April 12, 2013, pursuant to a written plea agreement, Ormsby pled guilty in <br> Grant County to Class D felony domestic battery in the presence of a child. <br> Ormsby was sentenced to three years with 180 days executed and the remainder <br> suspended to supervised probation. <br> [4] On August 12, 2013, the State filed a petition to revoke Ormsby’s probation, <br> alleging that he had v... More...
$0 (08-26-2016 - IN)United States of America v. Domminich Shaw
Indianapolis, IN - British Man Sentenced to 85 Years in Prison for Trafficking Child Pornography <br> <br> A citizen of the United Kingdom was sentenced to 85 years in prison for his part in a child pornography trafficking conspiracy.<br> <br> Domminich Shaw, 35, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William T. Lawrence of the Southern District of Indiana, who ordered that he also serve a lifetime ... More...
$0 (06-28-2016 - IN)Tristan Crayton v. State of Indiana
After leaving an Indianapolis nightclub in the early morning hours of August 2, <br> 2013, Matthew Williams and Andrew Allen had a verbal confrontation on <br> Broad Ripple Avenue outside the nightclub. Crayton, who had been with <br> Williams inside the nightclub, tried to defuse the situation. An Indianapolis <br> Metropolitan Police Department reserve officer working security at a restaurant ... More...
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