Kansas Armed Robbery Law
 

State of Kansas v. Casinroyial Donje Caszarone Collins

Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated robbery, kidnapping, and aggravated battery.

Legal issue Can an untimely appeal be excused based on exceptions for insufficient advisement of appellate rights or ineffective counsel?
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. APPELLATE JURISDICTION AND PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS. The case addresses whet... More...
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STATE OF KANSAS v. PATRICIO SABAS GOMEZ

Topeka, KS criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with claiming a jury instruction contained an alternative-means error



If a defendant claims a jury instruction contained an alternative-means error, the
reviewing c... More...
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; Emily Wise

Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with robbing Kansas banks

Two people from Wichita charged with robbing Kansas banks



A man and woman from Kansas have been charged through crim... More...
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United States of America v. Zane Tilcock; Emily Wise

Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with a series of bank robberies involving a firearm.

Two people from Wichita charged with robbing Kansas banks



A man and woman from Kansas h... More...
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State of Kansas v. Stan P. Mills, Jr.


Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant accused of being a violent offender.




In two separate cases, Sedgwick County District Court case Nos. 2021 CR 2220 (Case 1) and 2021 CR 2236 (Case 2), the State charged Mills with two counts of aggravated battery and attempted robbery. The State also charged Mills with arson in Sedgwick County Distri... More...
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State of Kansas v. D.H.

Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated robbery.

Sixteen-year-old D.H. was charged as a juvenile with aggravated robbery. After the district court granted the State's motion to prosecute him as an adult, a jury convicted him of the lesser included offense of robbery.

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On a fall evening in October 2020, Tasha Poort and... More...
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State of Kansas v. Larry D. Huggins, III

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Topeka, Kansas felony murder criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant.



Larry D. Huggins III appeals from his convictions of felony murder, attempted aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, and conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery. Finding no errors in his trial, we affirm the convictions, but we vacate the imposition of fees and remand the case for reco... More...
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STATE OF KANSAS v. CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL JACOBSON

Topeka, KS criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with appealing the denial of his motion to correct an illegal sentence



Jacobson pled guilty to one count of robbery, a severity level five, person felony,
for his cond... More...
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STATE OF KANSAS v. WILLIAM LOGGINS JR.

Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with appealing the district court's dismissal of his motion to withdraw a plea from a 1981 conviction for aggravated burglary



Loggins pleaded guilty in 1981 to aggra... More...
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STATE OF KANSAS v. CHRISTOPHER SHAWN ADAMS

Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with

(1) aggravated battery

(2) misdemeanor domestic battery

(3) misdemeanor battery



The Ellis County District Court rul... More...
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MARQUISE JOHNSON v. BASS PRO OUTDOOR WORLD, LLC, FABBRICA D'ARMI PIETRO BERETTA, S.P.A., and BERETTA U.S.A. CORP.

Topeka Kansas civil defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with product defect lawsuit against a gun seller



Shortly after turning 21, Andre Lewis went to the Bass Pro Outdoor World in
Olathe, Kansas, and bought a Be... More...
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STATE OF KANSAS v. CHRISTOPHER SHAWN ADAMS

Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with perjury




We now turn to the district court's decision permitting Lang to assert her privilege
against self-incrimination and explain why the ruling properly serves the cons... More...
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STATE OF KANSAS v. CHRISTOPHER SHAWN ADAMS

Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with perjury


In the circumstances of this case, the district court properly permitted a witness to assert her constitutional privilege against self-incrimination to avoid testifying at the defendant's criminal trial ... More...
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STATE OF KANSAS v. CHRISTOPHER SHAWN ADAMS

Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented a witness with perjury based on his or her preliminary hearing testimony in a criminal case .



Given the issue on appeal, we may quickly sketch the underlying criminal charges
against Defendant Christopher Shawn ... More...
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State of Kansas v. Jerome Edward

Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with shooting of a marijuana dealer in a robbery attempt .







The facts underlying Edwards convictions, which arise from the shooting of a
marijuana dealer in a rob... More...
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JASON TODD ROSS v. STATE OF KANSAS

Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with three counts of aggravated kidnapping, three counts of aggravated robbery, one count of aggravated burglary, and
two counts of aggravated battery.






A jury convict... More...
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STATE OF KANSAS v. CHRISTOPHER SHAWN ADAMS

Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with:
(1) aggravated battery; (2) misdemeanor domestic battery of Lang; and (3) misdemeanor battery of the man who stepped into their altercation.





Given the issue on appeal,... More...
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United States of America v. Richard Ruston

Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank robbery .

Missouri man sentenced for bank robbery in Kansas



A Missouri man was sentenced to 100 months in prison for bank robbery.

A federal jury had con... More...    $0 (04-02-2024 - KS)

United States of America v. Demond M. Johnson; Ryan D. Smith

Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank robbery.

Two Texas men indicted for bank robbery in Kansas



A federal grand jury in Wichita returned an indictment charging two men in connection with a bank robbery.

Acco... More...
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State of Kansas v .TERRANCE W. PONDER


On October 28, 2014, the State charged Ponder with violation of the Kansas
Offender Registration Act (KORA) for actions on or about September 1, 2014. Ponder
was not arrested until June 2018 for this offense.
Ponder ultimately entered into a plea agreement with the State, under which he
pleaded guilty to the KORA noncompliance charge. In his presentencing dispositional More...
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State of Kansas v. John K. Ewing

Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first degree murder.





Shawnee County Courthouse - Topeka


Shawnee County Courthouse - Topeka, Kansas


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United States of America v. Jakel Webster

Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with attempted robbery of a Kansas City, Kansas convenience store in which a clerk was shot in the face.


Jakel Webster, 26, of Kansas City Jakel Webster, 26, of Kansas City was sentenced to 212 months in prison.

On April 28, 2020, Webster and Jorden Brownlee, 22, of Lenexa entered a Quick Shop on Metr... More...
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STATE OF KANSAS v. ALEXANDER CHRI STOPHER HUNT

Topeka, KS - Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with appealing two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child charges.



In late November or early December 2018, Hunt, a homeless man, was invited to
stay at a house shared by several people including C.W. and her eight-year... More...    $0 (05-27-2022 - KS)

STATE OF KANSAS v. MATTHEW D. HASBROUCK

Topeka, KS - Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with a possession of methamphetamine charge.



: This appeal raises two questions about an offender's criminal history
score: whether an out-of-state conviction is a person crime and whether some
misdemeanor convictions should have... More...    $0 (05-26-2022 - KS)

State of Kansas v. Larry Huggins, III

Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyers represent Defendant charged with first-degree murder, attempted aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary and conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery.

Larry Huggins, III was accused of killing Owen Merek Hughes and Reginald Leory McKinney, Jr. in 2019.

The State claimed that Defendant and McKinney tried to break into Hughes' home. All three ... More...
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United States of America v. Cody Deichen

Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with bank robbery and use of a firearm during a crime of violence.

Cody Deichen, a/k/a Cody Brian Deichen, 26, of Hastings, Nebraska, admitted to aiding and abetting in the brandishing and use of a home built .223 caliber AR-15 style rifle during a bank robbery at Guaranty State Bank on South Main Street in Burr Oak, Ka... More...
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State of Kansas v. Francisco Mendez

Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and aggravated armed robbery.

Francisco Mendez was accused of killing Dwane Simmons in April 2019 outside a house where Simmons was celebrating his teammate Corey Ballentine's drafting by the NFL.... More...
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State of Kansas v. Kristoffer Lee Klesath

Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder.

Kristoffer Lee Klesath was charged for killing Darton Fields on February 18, 2018.

Officers were sent to 235 SW Huntoon, in Topeka after a report of shoots fired. They found Fields in a parking lot with multiple bullet wounds. He died at a local hospital.


Charges:
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State of Kansas v. Isain Lopez

Manhattan, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with 10 felony accounts including aggravate kidnapping, robbery, aggravated batter, aggravated domest battery and criminal threat.


Isain Lopez, age 24, was charged with multiple felonies.... More...
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United States of America v. Mario Lambert, Sir Love, Domonique Walker, Sharod Pitts and Terry Curtis

Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with armed robbery of a cell phone store.

Five people were sentenced to prison terms in connection with an armed robbery at a Kansas City, Kansas cell phone store in which victims were bound.


In September 2016, Lambert, Love, Walker, and Pitts entered a Verizon store on Village West Parkway. They pu... More...
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United States of America v. Jeremiah Urias

Wichita, Kansas armed robbery getaway driver represented by criminal defense lawyer.

Jeremiah Urias, 19, was charged with one count of Robbery.

Urias was charged in connection with the robbery of an EZ Trip gas station in Newton, Kansas, in February of 2020. Urias waited in the vehicle while two accomplices entered the business and demanded money from the clerk at gunpoint. After... More...
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United States of America v. Dallas Srivisay

Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with a firearm felony and drug distribution.

Dallas Srivisay, 21, of Kansas City, Missouri, was sentenced on April 20, 2021 to 96 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release. Srivisay entered a guilty plea on October 6, 2020. According to court records, this investigation involved an incident whe... More...
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STATE OF KANSAS v. MARK HOLLEY III

- Criminal defense attorney represented Mark Holley III with challenging his first-degree felony murder and child endangerment convictions on direct appeal.



Although Holley's convictions stem from four separate events, for today's
purposes we need only discuss the robbery of Timothy Albin and the murder of D'Shaun
Smit... More...
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STATE OF KANSAS v. CARLOS ANTONIO GALLEGOS

Topeka, KS - Criminal defense attorney represented Carlos Antonio Gallegos with challenging his conviction for first-degree premeditated murder charge



In July 2016, M.C. was staying with her boyfriend, Andr'a Jones, and his cousin,
Lakieva Rowe, at the Oak Tree Inn in Kansas City, Kansas. On July 5, Jones and Rowe
left ... More...
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STATE OF KANSAS v. CAESAR K. LOUIS

Topeka, KS - Criminal defense attorney represented Caesar K. Louis with appealing the district court's summary denial of his second motion to withdraw plea..



As part of a plea deal with the State, Louis pled guilty to a reduced charge of
second-degree murder, aggravated burglary, and aggravated robbery. In his
ack... More...
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STATE OF KANSAS v. GELDY GUTIERREZ-FUENTES

Topeka, KS - Criminal defense attorney represented Geldy Gutierrez-Fuentes with one count of rape, one count of aggravated battery, one count of aggravated burglary, and one count of criminal threat charges.



On October 5, 2016, the Wichita Police Department received two 911 calls asking
for assistance at D.S.'s address a... More...
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KEVIN SKAGGS v. STATE OF KANSAS

Topeka, KS - Criminal defense attorney represented Kevin Skaggs with filing successive motions for postconviction relief under K.S.A. 60-1507.



On June 25, 2007, following a six-day jury trial, Skaggs was convicted of three
counts of rape, one count of aggravated criminal sodomy, two counts of sexual
exploitation of... More...
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STATE OF KANSAS v. DANIEL EARL GENSON III

Topeka, KS - Criminal defense attorney represented Daniel Earl Genson III with appealing his conviction for failing to register under the Kansas Offender Registration Act (KORA).



The State charged Genson with failing to register under KORA after he did not
register in November 2017. In response, Genson notified the distr... More...
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STATE OF KANSAS v. LEON A. DUKES JR

Topeka, KS - Criminal defense attorney represented LEON A. DUKES JR with a voluntary manslaughter charge.



Leon "Tony" Dukes Jr. owned a barbershop in Wichita. Because Dukes' customers
often paid for his services with cash, Dukes carried a concealed handgun for protection.
On June 19, 2018, Dukes finished at the bar... More...
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STATE OF KANSAS v. CHRISTOPHER LEE HERRING

Topeka, KS - Criminal defense attorney represented Christopher Herring with an aggravated robbery charge.




In November 2016, the State charged Herring with aggravated robbery at a Family
Dollar store. The district court appointed Brandon Hottman to represent him. Before trial,
Herring filed three pro se motions ... More...
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