Kansas Judgment Notwithstanding Verdict Law
<h2> <center> State of Kansas v. Landunn D. Richardson </h2> </center>
Olathe, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second-degree murder and driving on a suspended license. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> On a Friday evening in August 2016, Landunn D. Richardson was driving a 1994 GMC Sierra truck southbound on I-635 when he su... More...
$ (08-04-2026 - KS)United States of America v. Michael R. Capps
Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with several felonies.<br> <br> A jury found Capps guilty and he was ordered to pay $300,000 in restitution.<br> <br> The government began enforcement proceedings to collect the restitution. It<br> applied for writs of garnishment and referred the restitution debt to the Treasury<br> Offset Program. 1 Mr. Capps filed several... More...
$0 (07-31-2025 - KS)A.S. Vineyard Church of Overland Park d/b/a Vineyard Community Church,Vineyard USA, and Mark Warner
Olathe, Kansas personal injury lawyers reprsented the Plaintiff on a sexual abuse case.<br> <br> In August 2021, A.S. filed a petition for damages and alleged that she was sexually abused as a child by Robert Bloom, her former youth pastor at Vineyard Church of Overland Park (VCOP). In addition to Bloom, A.S. named VCOP, Vineyard USA (VUSA), and Mark Warner as defendants in her claims of negligen... More...
$0 (06-28-2025 - KS)Kenya Watkins v. Genesh, Inc., d/b/a Burger King
Kansas City, Kansas civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on employment discrimination theory.<br> <br> MoreLaw's goal is to help people seeking legal assistance to find the best lawyers available to represent them in any county in the United States. Click the link above to see some lawyers available where this case was tried who might be available to represent you.Call 833-200-3... More...
$0 (05-01-2025 - KS)Larry A. Lawson v. Spirit Aerosystems, inc.
Wichita, Kansas employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff and Defendant in a dispute over non-compete clause in an employment contract.<br> <br> After several years as CEO of Spirit, Larry Lawson was ready to retire. But Mr. Lawson had a problem: some of his compensation was tied up in unvested long-term incentive stock awards. Those awards were not immediately monetizable: Spirit 3was only... More...
$0 (04-29-2025 - KS)United States of America v. Tegan C. Gulley
Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a felony.<br> <br> Tegan C. Gulley appealled from a delayed revocation hearing under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(i), which extends the district court's power to revoke an expired term of supervised release if "a warrant or summons has been issued†before the expiration, and the delay from expiration to revocation is "reas... More...
$0 (03-10-2025 - KS)State of Kansas v. Jordan Kristopher Yardley
Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with child abuse.<br> After the district court revoked Jordan Kristopher Yardley's probation, he moved to withdraw his plea. Yardley alleged his mental health impaired his ability to enter his plea; he lacked sufficient time to review the plea agreement; plea counsel had failed to introduce exonerating evidence and had fai... More...
$0 (03-08-2025 - KS)State of Kansas v. Casinroyial Donje Caszarone Collins
Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated robbery, kidnapping, and aggravated battery.<br> <br> Legal issue Can an untimely appeal be excused based on exceptions for insufficient advisement of appellate rights or ineffective counsel?<br> Headnote<br> <br> CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. APPELLATE JURISDICTION AND PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS. The case addresses whet... More...
$0 (03-03-2025 - KS)Cathy L. Stroud v. Ozark National Life Insurance Co. and Stephen I. Guinn
Wichita, Kansas insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff.<br> <br> Cathy L. Stroud sued Ozark National Life Insurance Company and its agent and manager Stephen Guinn for negligent misrepresentation and breach of fiduciary duty after her husband, Alan Stroud, converted his term life insurance policy to a whole life policy that reduced the death benefit provided to her as the sole beneficiary<... More...
$0 (03-01-2025 - KS)In the Matter of the Marriage of Laurie K. Boorigie and Robert M. Boorigie
Wichita, Kansas, family law lawyers represented Plaintiff and Defendant in a divorce.<br> <br> Robert and Laurie married in 1987. In March 2020, Laurie filed for divorce, and the matter proceeded to trial in August 2022. The issues on appeal turn largely on the district court's ruling and the parties' actions involving two marital assets: (1) Robert's interest in Worldwide Entertainment, LLC (Wor... More...
$0 (02-21-2025 - KS)State of Kansas v. Tommy Lee Yardley
Garden City, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony theft.<br> <br> A jury convicted Tommy Lee Yardley of felony theft of property that was worth at least $25,000, but less than $100,000. The property consisted of a truck and trailer containing tools. On appeal, Yardley argues the district court erred by not instructing the jury to be unanimous about which ite... More...
$0 (02-15-2025 - KS)Aaron Conard and Nicole Conard v. Neosho Drilling and Norman Houston
Columbus, Kansas, civil litigation lawyers represented the parties in a dispute between homeowners Aaron and Nichole Conard and Norman Houston. The Conards hired Houston to drill two water wells. After he was unable to complete the work, the Conards prevailed in a lawsuit they filed against Houston asserting claims for quiet title, breach of contract, negligence, and fraudulent misrepresentation.... More...
$0 (02-20-2025 - KS)Cutis Rodina v. Alberto Castaneda, D.D.S.
Kansas City, Kansas personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a dental malpractice claim.<br> <br> This is an action for dental malpractice. In a previous suit, Curtis Rodina sued Timothy T. Taylor, D.D.S., P.A.-the dental practice-and Sonya Cummings-an owner of the practice. He was awarded a default judgment for economic and noneconomic damages in the total amount of $285,000. Rodina th... More...
$0 (02-20-2025 - KS)Brent L. Alford v. Donald Langford
Wichita, Kansas pro se Plaintiff seught a writ of habeas corpus.<br> <br> In 1993, a Kansas court sentenced Brent L. Alford to prison, and he remains confined under that judgment. In 2011, he unsuccessfully challenged the judgment in a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas application. In 2024, he filed another habeas application. Concluding the latest application was an unauthorized second or successive one... More...
$0 (02-11-2025 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS v. PATRICIO SABAS GOMEZ </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, KS criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with claiming a jury instruction contained an alternative-means error </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> If a defendant claims a jury instruction contained an alternative-means error, the <br> reviewing c... More...
$0 (01-17-2025 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS v. OTHON MIGUEL LARA-LOPEZ </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, KS criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with moving for a new trial </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> In May 2021, Lara-Lopez was charged with aggravated indecent liberties with a <br> child after a 12 year old (referred to here under the pseudonym, ... More...
$0 (01-17-2025 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS v. MARVIN WILLARD POULSON </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, KS criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with appealing his jury conviction of one count of rape and one count of criminal restraint </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></b></b> <br> <br> After an incident in July 2019, the State charged Poulson with two counts of rape <br> under K.S.A. 2019 Su... More...
$0 (01-17-2025 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS v. JENNIFER L. DAILY </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with appealing the district court's revocation of the probation and imposition of her underlying sentence </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> On April 26, 2018, Jennifer Daily entered guilty pleas in two separ... More...
$0 (01-10-2025 - KS)Kolette Smith v. Brian Williams, Labetter County Medical Center, d/b/a Labette Health
Wichita, Kansas employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff.<br> <br> This case stems from the termination of the independent contractor<br> relationship between Plaintiff-Appellant, Dr. Kolette Smith, and Defendants-<br> Appellees, Brian Williams and Labette County Medical Center ("Labette Healthâ€)<br> (collectively "Defendantsâ€). Dr. Smith appeals from the district court's grant ... More...
$0 (12-18-2024 - KS)State of Kansas v. Joseph C. Esher
<h2><br> Hiawatha, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of rape and one count each of aggravated criminal sodomy, aggravated kidnapping, kidnapping, and criminal threat.<br> </h2><br> <br> Esher was convicted in 2001 of two counts of rape and one count each of aggravated criminal sodomy, aggravated kidnapping, kidnapping, and criminal threat. Another pan... More...
$0 (11-15-2024 - KS)Michael Anthony Allen v. Facebook, et la.
<h2><br> Wichita, Kansas civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant claiming to have been injured and/pr damaged by Facebook's operation.<br> <br> Michael Allen filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights lawsuit<br> against Facebook and other social media entities alleging that, while incarcerated, he<br> is the target of some sort of "illegal A.I.†emitter technology... More...
$0 (11-04-2024 - KS)State of Kansas v. Isaiah J. Duckworth
Lawrence, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated sexual battery.<br> <br> Duckworth entered a no-contest plea to two counts of aggravated sexual battery in violation of K.S.A. 21-5505(b)(1), a severity level 5 person felony, for his conduct with a 16-year-old victim. At the plea hearing, the district court reviewed the plea advisory and plea agreement that... More...
$0 (10-25-2024 - KS)State of Kansas v. Kristopher Keleti
Olathe, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession of drug paraphernalia.<br> <br> In October 2018, police officers on patrol noticed what looked like an empty vehicle with its doors open in a hotel parking lot. Because of recent burglaries in the area, the officers approached the vehicle. They foun... More...
$0 (10-25-2024 - KS)In the Matter of the Wrongful Conviction of Jason Mashaney
Wichita, Kansas personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking damages from the State of Kansas as a result of being wrongfully convicted.<br> <br> <br> In 2004, a jury convicted Mashaney of aggravated criminal sodomy and aggravated indecent liberties with a child for his alleged conduct in 2003 with his then-five-year-old daughter, A.A. He was sentenced to 442 months in prison. A Court ... More...
$0 (10-25-2024 - KS)Matthew Byrnes, M.C. v. St. Catherine Hospital, et al.
<h2><br> Kansas City, Kansas civil rights job discrimination lawyers represented the Plaintiff.<br> </h2><br> <br> People get fired from their jobs for many reasons, or, sometimes, for no reason at all. And if the person's an at-will employee, that's just fine, the law says. Just fine, that is, as long as his employer didn't fire him for discriminatory or retaliatory reasons. Plaintiff Dr. Matthe... More...
$0 (09-06-2024 - KS)In the Matter of the Marriage of L.S. and D.J.
<h2><br> Leavenworth, Kansas divorce lawyers represented the husband and wife in a marriage dissolution case.<br> </h2><br> <br> L.S. and D.J. were married in 2005 and shared a 12-year marriage which gifted them with two children. In late 2017, L.S. filed for divorce. Her petition included a domestic relations affidavit (DRA), minus any child support adjustments, and she did not attach a child sup... More...
$0 (05-31-2024 - KS)Tiffany Espinosa v. Todd W. Allen, et al. </center
<h2><br> Wichita, Kansas civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff.<br> </h2><br> <br> "Civil rights violations by government officials can occur in many situations, but police misconduct may be the most familiar. Concerns over excessive force by police have mounted in recent years. Excessive force violates the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which forbids unreasonable searches and... More...
$0 (08-09-2024 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS v. BLAKE WAYNE FEIKERT </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Blake Feikert was charged in July 2022 with criminal threat against a law <br> enforcement officer. He was arrested on July 27, 2022, and was held in jail... More...
$0 (07-12-2024 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS v. CRISTA G. HINOSTROZA </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> <br> Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conceal and carry contraband into a correctional facility </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Officers from the Lyon County Sheriff's department and the Emporia Police <br> Department r... More...
$0 (08-03-2024 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS v. CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL JACOBSON </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, KS criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with appealing the denial of his motion to correct an illegal sentence </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Jacobson pled guilty to one count of robbery, a severity level five, person felony, <br> for his cond... More...
$0 (07-26-2024 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS v. BECKY ANNE WILSON </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, KS criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with appealing, arguing the probations for the two lower-level felonies could not be revoked because she had completed their shorter statutory terms. She also challenged the order to pay interest </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2... More...
$0 (07-26-2024 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS v. BETH MERRILL </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with appealing, contending that the State of Kansas does not have territorial jurisdiction to prosecute this case. In addition, she contended that the district court erred in admitting certain evidence at trial relating to the issue of territorial jurisdiction. She also contended that the district c... More...
$0 (06-22-2024 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS, v. HUMBERTO L. PALACIO JR. </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of indecent liberties with a child, two counts of aggravated assault, and one count criminal possession <br> of a firearm </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Palacio now appeals the indecent liberties with a child conviction, raisin... More...
$0 (05-17-2024 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS v. ERIK NAHSHON DIXON </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act charges </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> <br> Erik Nahshon Dixon began committing crimes with his street gang, <br> the Ins... More...
$0 (06-11-2024 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS v. CHRISTOPHER SHAWN ADAMS </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with <br> <br> (1) aggravated battery <br> <br> (2) misdemeanor domestic battery <br> <br> (3) misdemeanor battery <br> </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> The Ellis County District Court rul... More...
$0 (04-19-2024 - KS)<h1> MARQUISE JOHNSON v. BASS PRO OUTDOOR WORLD, LLC, FABBRICA D'ARMI PIETRO BERETTA, S.P.A., and BERETTA U.S.A. CORP. </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka Kansas civil defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with product defect lawsuit against a gun seller </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Shortly after turning 21, Andre Lewis went to the Bass Pro Outdoor World in <br> Olathe, Kansas, and bought a Be... More...
$0 (05-03-2024 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS v. MALIK D. BEASLEY </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with criminal use of weapons </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Malik D. Beasley appeals his convictions of two counts of criminal <br> use of weapons following a jury trial. Beasley claims: (1) The State ... More...
$0 (06-10-2024 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS v. CODY MCFARLAND </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with challenging only his blackmail conviction and his sentence </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Because McFarland challenges only his blackmail conviction and his sentence, we <br> will briefly sum... More...
$0 (06-02-2024 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS v. TRAVIS D. SMITH </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with disputing the evidence of bodily harm supporting the aggravated kidnapping conviction. </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> The appellate lawyer further argues that the district court failed to adequately <br> consider Smith's financial circums... More...
$0 (05-17-2024 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS v. MATTHEW D. ZAITZ </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with driving under the influence and aggravated battery while driving under the influence. Zaitz now timely appeals his convictions, arguing the trial court's failure to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of battery was <br> clearly erroneous </color="red"></b></cente... More...
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