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STATE OF KANSAS v. GREGORY LYNN GALES
<center><h2><font color="red"> Topeka, KS - Criminal defense attorney represented Gregory Lynn Gales with <i> challenging the district court's denial of his motion to correct an illegal sentence..</h2></font></b></i></center><br> Gregory Lynn Gales challenges the district court's denial of his motion<br> to correct an illegal sentence. He argues his prior 1976 California juvenile adjudication<br... More...
$0 (01-10-2021 - KS)STATE OF KANSAS v. AARON ROBERT BROWN
<center><br> <table><br> <td><br> <img width="200" src=" https://offenderpictures.doc.ks.gov/kasper45/84/0095684001.JPG"> <br> </td><br> <td><br> <img width="200" src=" https://offenderpictures.doc.ks.gov/kasper45/84/0095684002.JPG"> <br> </td><br> </table><br> <h2><B> <font color="red"> </font> </h2></B><br> </center><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> The State charged Brown with attempted second-deg... More...
$0 (09-03-2020 - KS)STATE OF KANSAS v. AARON ROBERT BROWN
<center><br> <table><br> <td><br> <img width="200" src=" https://offenderpictures.doc.ks.gov/kasper45/84/0095684001.JPG"> <br> </td><br> <td><br> <img width="200" src=" https://offenderpictures.doc.ks.gov/kasper45/84/0095684002.JPG"> <br> </td><br> </table><br> <h2><B> <font color="red"> Attempted second-degree intentional murder </font> </h2></B><br> </center><br> <br> <br> The State charged ... More...
$0 (06-22-2020 - KS)STATE OF KANSAS v. JAMES RAYMOND LAX-DUDLEY
<center><P><font color=”ff0000”><h2> Call 918-582-6422 if you need a Criminal Defense Attorney in Kansas. </font></h2></center><br> On September 19, 2016, at 5:20 pm, Topeka Police Department (TPD) Patrol Officer Jason Oyler was dispatched to an attempted robbery call at Advance America. One of the Advance America employees, Davie Rivera, said he saw a man wearing a mask, black pants, and bla... More...
$0 (11-30-2019 - KS)STATE OF KANSAS v. TIMOTHY WARUI
<center><P><font color=”ff0000”><h2> Call 918-582-6422 if you need a Criminal Defense Attorney in Kansas. </font></h2></center><br> On July 16, 2018, Warui pled guilty to aggravated battery (K.S.A. 2017 Supp. 215413[b][1][B]) and aggravated intimidation of a witness (K.S.A. 2017 Supp. 215909[b][1], [c][2]). A presentencing investigation report calculated Warui's criminal history score as A, b... More...
$0 (11-11-2019 - KS)STATE OF KANSAS v. BILLY J. BAERT
<center><P><font color=”ff0000”><h2> Call 918-582-6422 if you need a Criminal Defense Attorney in Kansas. </font></h2></center><br> On December 9, 1998, a jury convicted Baert of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated burglary, aggravated criminal sodomy, rape, two counts of criminal threat, battery, and domestic battery. On January 13, 1999, after finding that Baert had a criminal history score o... More...
$0 (11-10-2019 - KS)STATE OF KANSAS v. FRANCOIS WILLIAMS
<center><br> <table><br> <td><br> <img width="200" src=" https://offenderpictures.doc.ks.gov/kasper45/32/0118432001.JPG"> <br> </td><br> <td><br> <img width="200" src=" https://offenderpictures.doc.ks.gov/kasper45/32/0118432002.JPG"> <br> </td><br> </table><br> <h2> <font color="red"> </font> </h2><br> </center><br> Williams pled guilty to robbery in 2012, and the district court granted him a... More...
$0 (05-31-2019 - KS)STATE OF KANSAS v. DEVARIO CEON EDWARDS
<center><br> <table><br> <td><br> <img width="200" src=" https://offenderpictures.doc.ks.gov/kasper45/27/0120127001.JPG "> <br> </td><br> <td><br> <img width="200" src=" https://offenderpictures.doc.ks.gov/kasper45/27/0120127002.JPG"> <br> </td><br> </table><br> <h2> <font color="red"> </font> </h2><br> </center><br> On May 22, 2018, Edwards pled guilty to one count of criminal threat. On Ju... More...
$0 (04-27-2019 - KS)United States of America v. Dustin E. Ash
<Center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.ksb.uscourts.gov/sites/ksb/files/Wichitacthse.gif"><br> </center><br> In this cross-appeal, the parties challenge two district court rulings that<br> considered whether certain offenses are crimes of violence under U.S.S.G.<br> 2<br> § 4B1.2(a). Intervening authority resolves both challenges. First, the Supreme Court<br> recently determined that robbe... More...
$0 (03-12-2019 - KS)STATE OF KANSAS v. JASON GRASLE
<center><br> <img width="300" src=" https://offenderpictures.doc.ks.gov/kasper45/49/6081949001.JPG"><br> <h2></h2><br> </center><br> <br> <br> Because this is Grasle's direct appeal, we set forth the facts in detail. In September 2012, Grasle saw Mark Dylan Seminara, an acquaintance, at a Dairy Queen and they began a conversation. Seminara lived in Pflumm Oxford House, a structured sober living co... More...
$0 (09-24-2018 - KS)STATE OF KANSAS v. JAMES R. ARNOLD II, <table> <td>
Jeffrey and Cynthia Sugarbaker hired Arnold, owner of Premier Lawncare (Premier), in late May 2015. Arnold agreed to install a yard irrigation system, cut, seed, and provide four fertilizer treatments to the Sugarbaker's lawn from June to September. In exchange, the Sugarbaker's agreed to pay $3,160. They paid a total of $1,843—half up front and one monthly payment—per their contract with Prem... More...
$0 (08-19-2018 - KS)STATE OF KANSAS v. SHANE TRAVERS GARRETT <table> <td>
In November 2015, Garrett pled no contest to possession of methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. He was found guilty of both felony offenses. The presentence investigation report calculated Garrett's criminal history score as B, based in part on his 2009 California conviction for first-degree burglary. <br> <br> At sentencing, Garrett objected to the cla... More...
$0 (07-28-2018 - KS)STATE OF KANSAS v. KERRY D. JENKINS <table> <td>
On October 21, 2014, Kelly Spires, the manager of a Save-A-Lot in Wichita, reported to police that a man had walked out of the store with a cart of groceries for which he had not paid. <br> <br> Wichita Police Officer Robert Bachman responded to the scene and spoke with Spires. She told him she had been within 10 to 15 feet of the man and asked him if he had a receipt. She looked him right in th... More...
$0 (06-23-2018 - KS)STATE OF KANSAS v. ROBERT TRAVIS JENKINS <table> <td>
Abdifathah Hassan Hashi, the robbery victim, met Mohammad Jama, his friend and coworker, at a bar in Liberal shortly before midnight on Halloween in 2015. Hashi drank heavily until closing time about two hours later and became quite intoxicated. Jama abstained. While at the bar, Hashi exchanged text messages with Raeanne Winters, who he had met briefly sometime earlier. Winters worked as a dancer ... More...
$0 (06-05-2018 - KS)STATE OF KANSAS v. SHANE TRAVERS GARRETT <table> <td>
Garrett does not claim the district court erred in treating his California crime as a felony. He limits his argument to whether his California crime should be treated as a person crime. He claims that Kansas does not have a comparable burglary statute, so his California conviction must be classified as a nonperson crime. <br> <br> Garrett raises an issue of statutory interpretation under the Ka... More...
$0 (04-18-2018 - KS)STATE OF KANSAS v. ANDREA SHUCKAHOSEE <table> <td>
On October 28, 2013, at a Walmart in Lawrence, Kansas, Shuckahosee was stopped by a Walmart asset protection officer (APO) outside the front entrance of the store with a cart full of items for which she had not paid. Shuckahosee told the APO that she had gone outside without paying because she had not completed her shopping; she wanted to buy a pumpkin on display outside the store's front entrance... More...
$0 (07-12-2017 - KS)STATE OF KANSAS v. DONNIE RAY VENTRIS <table> <td>
The facts of Ventris' underlying case are well stated in the United States Supreme Court opinion regarding another issue from the case. <br> <br> "In the early hours of January 7, 2004, after two days of no sleep and some drug use, Rhonda Theel and respondent Donnie Ray Ventris reached an ill-conceived agreement to confront Ernest Hicks in his home. The couple testified that the aim of the visit... More...
$0 (06-11-2017 - KS)STATE OF KANSAS v. ALAN KINGSLEY <table> <td>
A jury convicted Kingsley of four 1991 crimes: first-degree murder on the alternative theories of both premeditated and felony murder, aggravated robbery, aggravated arson, and forgery. As part of the proceedings, the jury found three aggravating circumstances: (1) Kingsley committed the crime for pecuniary gain; (2) he committed the crime to avoid or prevent arrest or prosecution; and (3) he co... More...
$0 (06-09-2017 - KS)<b>STATE OF KANSAS v. KENNETH MURRAY</b> <table> <td>
On October 4, 2013, Overland Park Home Depot store associate Dexter Goode observed Murray pushing a shopping cart filled with merchandise toward the entryway of the store and through the alarm system to the vestibule area where the carts were kept. Goode was familiar with Murray and believed that Murray had not paid for the items in his cart. Goode took the cart and directed it toward the returns ... More...
$0 (02-13-2017 - KS)<b>STATE OF KANSAS v. JERIMIAH R. STEELE</b> <table> <td>
The facts are straightforward. On October 1, 2015, the State charged Steele with one count of possession of methamphetamine and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia. The crimes allegedly were committed on September 30, 2015. On October 8, 2015, Steele pled no contest to possession of methamphetamine in exchange for dismissal of the other charge. At the sentencing hearing on November 13, 2... More...
$0 (12-19-2016 - KS)<b>STATE OF KANSAS v. JOHN A. ROGERS</b>
On September 5, 2013, Rogers entered into a plea agreement in Sedgwick County. Rogers pled guilty to one count of burglary in Sedgwick County case No. 13 CR 1035. Rogers also pled guilty to two additional counts of burglary and two counts of felony theft in Sedgwick County case No. 13 CR 1283. In exchange, the State agreed not to file charges against Rogers in three additional cases. Further, the ... More...
$0 (12-07-2016 - KS)<b>CHARLES L. FREED v. STATE OF KANSAS</b> <table> <td>
Upon remand, the district court found that one of Charles L. Freed's trial attorneys was deficient when he told Freed the State's plea offer was for 96 months in prison when it was actually an offer for 60 months. There is evidence that Freed would have accepted such an offer. But this record shows no reasonable probability that the sentencing judge would have accepted the State's recommended 60-... More...
$0 (10-01-2016 - KS)STATE OF KANSAS v. DERRICK BUELL
In February 2015, pursuant to a plea agreement, Buell pled guilty to robbery and attempted kidnapping. According to the presentence investigation report (PSI), Buell's criminal history included two 2002 Florida juvenile adjudications, one labeled as burglary of a dwelling and one labeled as burglary of a dwelling while armed. At his sentencing, Buell objected to the classification of the adjudicat... More...
$0 (07-01-2016 - KS)United State of America v. Kirk Mychale Sexton
Topeka, KS - Topeka Man Sentenced For Bank Robbery<br> <br> A Topeka man was sentenced to three years in federal prison for bank robbery.<br> <br> Kirk Mychale Sexton, 27, Topeka, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery. In his plea, he admitted that on Jan. 9, 2015, he robbed the Equity Bank at 3825 S.W. 29th Street in Topeka. He entered the bank wearing a blue hoodie with the words “... More...
$0 (12-14-2015 - KS)Abasolo v. State Of Kansas
In 2002, Andrea Abasolo pled guilty to four counts of sale of cocaine, three counts of no tax stamp, and one count of delivery of a simulated controlled substance. The plea agreement provided the following language: <br> "Contingent upon a successful plea of guilty as charged, the State will recommend that the Court impose the high number in the appropriate Sentencing Guidelines Grid Box for each ... More...
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