Iowa Jury Verdicts, Settlements and Court Decisions
<h2> <center> State of Iowa v. Lynn Melvin </h2> </center>
Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with second-degree sexual abuse.... More...
$ (12-23-2025 - IA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Starr Necole Ledford </h2> </center>
Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs.... More...
$ (01-22-2026 - ia)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Bryce White </h2> </center>
Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of children and possession of pornography. Bryce White, 42, from Dow City, Iowa, admitted that between August 1, 2023, and August 2024, he coerced minor females into sending him depictions of themselves engaged in sexually explicit conduct. White used Snapchat to pose as a minor and solicited ... More...
$ (01-28-2026 - IA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Rusty Todd Johsnon </h2> </center>
Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with false use of a social security number and aggravated identity theft. Rusty Todd Johnston, 46, was convicted of a felony drug offense in Brooks County, Texas in 2005. He was sentenced to a suspended prison sentence with community supervision. Within months, Johnston absconded from his Texas probation and Texas author... More...
$ (01-27-2026 - IA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Ian Roberts </h2> </center>
Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyers Alfredo Parrish, Alexander Smith, Ben Bergmann, and Brandon Brown represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm. A federal grand jury indicted Ian Roberts on the charge of illegal alien in possession of a firearm. He was also charged with false statement for employment after claiming he was a U.S. citizen on a U.S. Citizenship a... More...
$ (01-22-2026 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Marshawn Ladarius Jeffries </h2> </center>
Cedar Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of a firearm.... More...
$ (01-13-2026 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Anthony Isiah Pennell </h2> </center>
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of firearms. Information from the sentencing hearing showed that, on October 9, 2024, in a mall parking lot in Cedar Rapids, Anthony Isiah Pennell fired a gun. Following an argument between an individual who was with Pennell and another person, Pennell grabbed a gun out of a purse belongi... More...
$ (01-16-2026 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Jared Stuart Stratton </h2> </center>
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute drugs.... More...
$ (01-18-2026 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Brian Thomas Oakleaf </h2> </center>
Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with engaging in activities involving or containing child pornography. Evidence at the plea and sentencing hearings showed that, from March 1, 2022, through July 29, 2024, Brian Thomas Oakleaf received, distributed, and possessed child pornography, including depictions involving prepubescent minors, on two separate cell... More...
$ (01-16-2026 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Alan Hernandez Lagunas </h2> </center>
Davenport, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal reentry of a deported alien.... More...
$ (01-16-2026 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Kurt Williams </h2> </center>
Des Moines, Iowa, pro se defendant accused of sexually harassed female tenants in violation of the Fair Housing Act. In January 2025, the Government alleged that for more than two decades, property manager Kurt Williams sexually harassed female tenants at various rental dwellings throughout Davenport. The suit alleges that Williams’ conduct included making unwelcome sexual comments and sexual... More...
$ (01-17-2026 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Taxavier Ford </h2> </center>
Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of firearms. Taxavier Ford, 29, from Alta, Iowa, was charged one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Ford was previously convicted of possession of a narcotic drug, in the State of Indiana in 2017, and possession of marijuana, with intent to deliver and possession of a firear... More...
$ (01-08-2026 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Victor Villarreal </h2> </center>
Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with trafficking fentanyl and illegally possessing firearms. Jason S. Thompson, 50, was found guilty of one count each of possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute, possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of firearms. In the early morning hours of Aug. ... More...
$ (01-08-2026 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Steven Michael Conroy </h2> </center>
Dubuque, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm and making interstate communication of threats.... More...
$ (01-08-2026 - IA)<H2> <center> Debora Fisk v. Athene Annuity and Life Company </h2> </center>
Des Moines, Iowa, consumer law lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a unfair and deceptive practices act theory . 15 U.S. Code § 45, Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act, declares that unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce are unlawful and gives the FTC power to prevent them, covering antitrust violations and consumer protection, al... More...
$ (01-08-2026 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Adolfo Contreras Galan </h2> </center>
Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with reentry of a deported alien.... More...
$ (01-08-2026 - IA)<H2> <center> State of Iowa v. Brandon Lyle High Pipe and Luciano Eliseo Sanchez </h2> </center>
Rock Rapids, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represent the Defendants charged with burglary and vandalism. Brandon Lyle High Pipe, age 39, and Luciano Eliseo Sanchez, age 18, were accused o breaking into the Lyon County, Iowa Courthouse and valdalizing the interior.... More...
$ (12-24-2025 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Desmond Collins </h2> </center>
Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of distribution of a controlled substance. Desmond Collins, age 34, from Fort Dodge, Iowa, admitted that in October 2024, he distributed a total of approximately three ounces of methamphetamine to a person cooperating with law enforcement in Fort Dodge, Iowa. At the time of the distribution, Collins wa... More...
$ (12-18-2025 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Brandon Mitchell </h2> </center>
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... More...
$ (12-18-2025 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Kenneth Wayne Brown </h2> </center>
Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of possession of child pornography. From early May 2023, through April 3, 2024, Kenneth Brown, 60, from Badger, Iowa, received and possessed child pornography. A CyberTip to law enforcement revealed 32 files of child pornography had been uploaded to the internet from Brown’s cell phone. Brown was a vo... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Louis Grant Peterson </h2> </center>
Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making false declarations in a bankruptcy proceeding. Louis Grant Peterson, also known as “Chip Peterson,” 61, was the former owner of Legacy Siding and Windows, an exterior construction company based in Ankeny. While operating that company, Peterson engaged in a pattern of taking customer deposits—hundreds ... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Melvin Boone </h2> </center>
Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of a protected location. Melvin Boone, age 46, from Fort Dodge, Iowa, admitted that between October 2023, and March 2025, he and others conspired to distribute over 5 pounds ... More...
$ (12-16-2025 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Zachary James Flaherty </h2> </center>
Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, and separately to one count of criminal contempt, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 401(3).. Flaherty worked as an insurance producer for 17 years and throughout all 17 years, Flaherty stole money from over 30 victims. Through his fraudulent scheme, Flaher... More...
$ (12-17-2025 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Steven Earl </h2> </center>
Council Bluffs, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with o one count of transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm... More...
$ (12-17-2025 - IA)<h2> <center> Sandra K. Mormann, et al. v. City of Manchester, Iowa and James Louis Wessels </h2> </center>
Manchester, Iowa personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who sued on a assault and battery theory.<br> <br> In the afternoon of December 10, 2020, Iowa State Trooper Eric Payne was driving his marked squad car eastbound on Highway 20 near Manchester. Payne encountered a motorcycle speeding in the opposite direction at ninety-nine miles per hour; the posted speed limit was sixty-five mil... More...
$0 (11-25-2025 - IA)<h2> <center> State of Iowa v. Pat Grant Kepner </h2> </center>
Boone, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with indecent exposure.<br> <br> In spring 2022, two women-K.W. and E.P.-made two separate reports to law enforcement. Each woman reported that a man whom she did not know had just exposed himself to her in a retail parking lot. This case is about those women's experiences, the investigations and trial that followed, and (especi... More...
$0 (11-26-2025 - IA)<h2> <center> State of Iowa v. Tywrone Morrow </h2> </center>
Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder and assault on a police officer.<br> Tywone Morrow, age 31, was accused for shooting and killing man at 3600 Kennedy Drive in Des Moines.... More...
$0 (07-12-2025 - IA)<h2> <center> State of Iowa v. Robert Allen Davis </h2> </center>
Logan, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with first-degree muder.<br> <br> Robert Allen Davis, 61, of Council Bluffs, was accused for killing Barbara Lenz disappeared in Harrison County more than 36 years ago.... More...
$0 (03-12-2025 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Conrad Lyons, Jr. </h2> </center>
Council Bluffs, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.... More...
$0 (11-18-2025 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Anthony Dwaynbe Clay, a/k/a Oak </h2> </center>
Davenport, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant whose supervised release was revoke.... More...
$0 (11-20-2025 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Tyree Robert Williams </h2> </center>
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of distribution of fentanyl in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(C). <br> <br> ... More...
$0 (11-20-2025 - IA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Adrien Cole </h2> </center>
Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking.<br> <br> In 2014, Cole was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment and 10 years of supervised release following his conviction for sex-trafficking in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1591(a)(1), (b)(2) (the sex-trafficking case). His term of supervised release started in 2021. During that period,... More...
$0 (11-24-2025 - IA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Benjamin Tyler Gentry </h2> </center>
Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with three counts of receipt and possession of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2), (b)(1), (a)(5)(B), and (b)(2), and with being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2)<br> <br> In October 2021, a Department of Homeland Security Special Agent ... More...
$0 (11-17-2025 - IA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Kim Phuong Taylor, also known as Kimberly Taylor </h2> </center>
Sioux City, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with voter fraud.<br> <br> In 2020, Taylor decided to run her own version of a get-out-the-vote campaign. The idea was to help Vietnamese Americans, some of whom struggled with English and were unfamiliar with our election system, register and vote. Her<br> motives were not purely altruistic: she hoped they would vote for h... More...
$0 (11-17-2025 - IA)<h2> <center> State of Iowa v. Pat Grant Kepne </h2> </center> </h2> </center>
Boone, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with indecent exposrure<br> <br> In spring 2022, two women-K.W. and E.P.-made two separate reports to law enforcement. Each woman reported that a man whom she did not know had just exposed himself to her in a retail parking lot. This case is about those women's experiences, the investigations and trial that followed, and (espe... More...
$0 (11-14-2025 - IA)<h2> <center> Iowa Migrant Movement of Justice, et al. v. Brenna Bird,n her official capacity as Attorney General of Iowa </h2> </center>
Des Moines, Iowa, civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who used on a Constitutional law violation theory.<br> <br> Iowa, in Senate File 2340, criminalized the presence within its boundaries of aliens who illegally reentered the United States. Aliens violating this Act are ordered to return to the country they reentered from. The Act forbids judges from abating a state prosecution due to... More...
$0 (10-28-2025 - IA)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Marquise Darius Dickerson </h1></center></h1>
Cedar Rapids, IA criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a firearm by a felon. <br> <br> A man who illegally possessed a firearm as a felon was sentenced on September 26, 2025, to more than four years in federal prison.<br> <br> Marquise Darius Dickerson, age 33, from Monroe, Michigan, received the prison term after an April 17, 2025 guilty plea to possession o... More...
$0 (09-29-2025 - IA)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Edward Earl Roby, Jr., </h1></center></h1>
Cedar Rapids, IA criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a firearm by a felon.<br> <br> A convicted felon who illegally possessed a firearm as a felon was sentenced on September 26, 2025, to nearly five years in federal prison.<br> <br> Edward Earl Roby, Jr., age 28, from Waterloo, Iowa, received the prison term after a May 13, 2025 guilty plea to possession of... More...
$0 (09-29-2025 - IA)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Marquise Darius Dickerson </h1></center></h1>
Cedar Rapids, IA criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a firearm by a felon.<br> <br> A man who illegally possessed a firearm as a felon was sentenced on September 26, 2025, to more than four years in federal prison.<br> <br> Marquise Darius Dickerson, age 33, from Monroe, Michigan, received the prison term after an April 17, 2025 guilty plea to possession o... More...
$0 (09-29-2025 - IA)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Edward Earl Roby, Jr., </h1></center></h1>
Cedar Rapids, IA criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Federal Firearms Charge.<br> <br> A convicted felon who illegally possessed a firearm as a felon was sentenced on September 26, 2025, to nearly five years in federal prison.<br> <br> Edward Earl Roby, Jr., age 28, from Waterloo, Iowa, received the prison term after a May 13, 2025 guilty plea to possession of a firearm ... More...
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