Legal News for Desmoins, Iowa
State of Iowa v. Pat Grant Kepner
Boone, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with indecent exposure. 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...
(11-26-2025 - IA)Sandra K. Mormann, et al. v. City of Manchester, Iowa and James Louis Wessels
Manchester, Iowa personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who sued on a assault and battery theory. 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...
(11-25-2025 - IA)United States of America v. Adrien Cole
Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking. 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...
(11-24-2025 - IA)United States of America v. Anthony Dwaynbe Clay, a/k/a Oak
Davenport, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant whose supervised release was revoke.... More...
(11-20-2025 - IA)United States of America v. Tyree Robert Williams
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). ... More...
(11-20-2025 - IA)United States of America v. Conrad Lyons, Jr.
Council Bluffs, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.... More...
(11-18-2025 - IA)United States of America v. Benjamin Tyler Gentry
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) In October 2021, a Department of Homeland Security Special Agent ... More...
(11-17-2025 - IA)United States of America v. Kim Phuong Taylor, also known as Kimberly Taylor
Sioux City, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with voter fraud. 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 motives were not purely altruistic: she hoped they would vote for h... More...
(11-17-2025 - IA)State of Iowa v. Pat Grant Kepne
Boone, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with indecent exposrure 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...
(11-14-2025 - IA)Iowa Migrant Movement of Justice, et al. v. Brenna Bird,n her official capacity as Attorney General of Iowa
Des Moines, Iowa, civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who used on a Constitutional law violation theory. 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...
(10-28-2025 - IA)Charles Talley, Jr. v. Social Security Administration
Davenport, Iowa, social security disability lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking review of the denial of his application for social security disability benefits. ... More...
(10-17-2025 - IA)Jacob H. Sulzbach v. Kubota Tractor Corporation
Sioux City, Iowa, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a product liability theory. ... More...
(10-17-2025 - IA)United States of America v. Justin Michael Derby
Sioux City, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs.... More...
(10-17-2025 - IA)David's Dozer V-Loc System Inc. et al v. Deere & Company
Dubuque, Iowa, intellectual property lawyers represented the parties in a patent infringement dispute.... More...
(10-17-2025 - IA)United States of America v. Jeffery Lamont Hayes
Cedar Rapids, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing drugs. ... More...
(10-17-2025 - IA)State of Iowa v. Quintoria Baker
Cedar Rapids, Iowa criminal defense lawyer will be representing the Defendant charged with attempted murder. Quintoria Baker, age 37, is accused of shooting and wounding Quincy harris, age 32, who suffered multiple gunshot wounds.... More...
(10-17-2025 - IA)State of Iowa v. Tyler Pavlick
Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer representing the Defendant charged with invasion of privacy. Tyler Pavlick, 32, is accused of capturing visual and audio footage of people using the toilet inside a porta-potty during a middle school and high school cross country meet in September.... More...
(10-17-2025 - IA)State of Iowa v. Cori Jayvon Shields
Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with willful injury causing serious injury, reckless use of a firearm, and intimidation with a dangerous weapon. Cori Jayvon Shields, 27, pleaded guilty to willful injury causing serious injury, reckless use of a firearm, and intimidation with a dangerous weapon.... More...
(10-08-2025 - IA)State of Iowa v. Huston William Danker and Karina Sue Cooper
Des Moines, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder. Huston William Danker, age 26, and Karina Sue Cooper, age 45, admitted to shooting Rayan Cooper in 2021. ... More...
(10-08-2025 - IA)United States of America v. David Davis, Jr.
Davenport, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing drugs. ... More...
(10-07-2025 - IA)United States of America v. Ian Andre Roberts
Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being an illegal alien in possession of firearms. The former Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent, and citizen of Guyana made his initial appearance before a United States Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa today on a criminal complaint charging him with... More...
(10-02-2025 - IA)United States of America v. Marquise Darius Dickerson
Cedar Rapids, IA criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a firearm by a felon. A man who illegally possessed a firearm as a felon was sentenced on September 26, 2025, to more than four years in federal prison. Marquise Darius Dickerson, age 33, from Monroe, Michigan, received the prison term after an April 17, 2025 guilty plea to possession o... More...
(09-29-2025 - IA)United States of America v. Edward Earl Roby, Jr.,
Cedar Rapids, IA criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a firearm by a felon. A convicted felon who illegally possessed a firearm as a felon was sentenced on September 26, 2025, to nearly five years in federal prison. Edward Earl Roby, Jr., age 28, from Waterloo, Iowa, received the prison term after a May 13, 2025 guilty plea to possession of... More...
(09-29-2025 - IA)United States of America v. Marquise Darius Dickerson
Cedar Rapids, IA criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a firearm by a felon. A man who illegally possessed a firearm as a felon was sentenced on September 26, 2025, to more than four years in federal prison. Marquise Darius Dickerson, age 33, from Monroe, Michigan, received the prison term after an April 17, 2025 guilty plea to possession o... More...
(09-29-2025 - IA)United States of America v. Edward Earl Roby, Jr.,
Cedar Rapids, IA criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Federal Firearms Charge. A convicted felon who illegally possessed a firearm as a felon was sentenced on September 26, 2025, to nearly five years in federal prison. 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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