Kansas Last Clear Chance Law
<h2> <center> Bobbie Jo Horocofsky v. City of Lawrence, Kansas, et al. </h2>
Kansas City, Kansas, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights claim. Digested 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> Bobbie Jo Horocofsky alleged that she was raped by a law-school classmate. But officers of the City of Lawrence Police Department (LPD) ended up investigating her fo... More...
$ (07-24-2026 - KS)United States of America v. Dion Daniel
Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank fraud. Dion Daniel, 36, of Kansas City, Missouri, submitted false information on applications for disaster relief loans resulting in a loss of $522,000 for the Small Business Administration (SBA). The Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") was intended to provide financial relief to business owners dealing wi... More...
$ (01-29-2026 - KS)<H2> United States of America v. Montressa Cunningham
Topeka, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud and Wire Fraud and Money Laundering.<br> <br> A jury convicted Defendant Montressa Cunningham ("Cunninghamâ€) of sixteen offenses stemming from a fourteen-month fraudulent scheme. Cunningham and his wife Felicia purchased seven higher-end used cars, financing those purchases<br> with... More...
$0 (11-19-2025 - KS)In the Matter of the Adoption of Baby Boy S.
Wichita, Kansas family law lawyers represent man and wife in an adoption case.<br> <br> "1. On or about December 17, 2023[,] Baby Boy [S.] was born in Wichita, Sedgwick [C]ounty[,] Kansas. <br> <br> "2. [R.S.] . . . is the natural mother of Baby Boy [S.]. [R.S.] has filed a consent to allow Baby Boy [S.] to be adopted. <br> <br> "3. In connection with the adoption proceeding, [R.S.] f... More...
$0 (07-03-2025 - KS)Untied States of America v. Zarion Butler
Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with:<br> <br> 18:111(a)(1), 111(b) - Forcible Assault of a Federal Officer and 18:2 - Aiding and abetting. Forfeiture allegations. <br> <br> 8:924(c)(1)(A)(iii) - Use of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence and 18:2 - Aiding and abetting. Forfeiture allegations. <br> <br> On August 3, 2020, Kansas City Kansas... More...
$0 (06-30-2025 - KS)United States of America v. Jason P. Briscoe
Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with with possession with intent to distribute 50-plusgrams of methamphetamine, firearm possession in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, and felon ammunition and firearm possession. <br> <br> Officers arrested Briscoe one morning after he ran from a traffic stop through a trailer park. Briscoe was a passenger in the c... More...
$0 (04-02-2025 - 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)<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. GABRIAELLE AKIN </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, KS criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with claiming the district court abused its discretion. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> The facts of this case are well known to the parties and will only be briefly stated. <br> In March 2022, Akin se... More...
$0 (01-17-2025 - KS)<h1> STATE OF KANSAS v. ROBERT E. MCINTOSH </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, KS criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant with appealing his convictions for disorderly conduct <br> and interference with law enforcement. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> McIntosh was charged with criminal threat, disorderly conduct, and interf... 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)State of Kansas v. William Wesley Flesher, Jr.
<h2><br> Manhattan, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated battery, aggravated burglary, and theft.<br> </hr><br> <br> CRIMINAL LAW. JURY INSTRUCTIONS. The case addresses whether the district court erred by not providing unrequested jury instructions that the State must disprove self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt, and whether this omission constituted... More...
$0 (12-06-2024 - KS)In the Interests of G.I. and R.I., Minor Children
<h2><br> Kansas City, Kansas family law lawyer represented the Defendant in a parental rights termination action.<br> </h2><br> In June 2022, the Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) received a report that a stranger found one-year-old R.I. wandering outside alone. DCF investigated the report and spoke to Mother and J.I. (Father) a few days after the incident. Mother and Father revea... More...
$0 (12-06-2024 - KS)Maria Varnas v. Conner Thompson
Kansas City, Kansas civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on civil rights violation theories.<br> <br> Maria Varnas sued Conner Thompson claiming he used excessive force when he shot and killed Brandon Lynch, age 27, in 2022.<br> <br> Following the tragic death of her son, Plaintiff Maria Varnas filed this lawsuit, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, as Special Adminis... More...
$0 (11-05-2024 - KS)State of Kansas v. D.H.
Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated robbery.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> * * *<br> <br> On a fall evening in October 2020, Tasha Poort and... More...
$0 (10-25-2024 - KS)State of Kansas v. Timothy James Eugene Kittle
McPherson, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexually molesting a child.<br> <br> Kittle and his wife Jayne have two children-their daughter Emma and her older brother Sam. (The names are pseudonyms we have substituted to protect the children's privacy.) Kittle and Jayne separated without divorcing, and she moved to Massachusetts with the children. Jayne encount... More...
$0 (10-25-2024 - KS)United States of America v. Bogdana Alexandrovna Mobley
<h2><br> Wichita, Kansas international kidnapping criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant.<br> </h2><br> Bogdana Alexandrovna Mobley has been charged with international parental kidnapping in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1204. She appeals from the district court's order affirming the magistrate judge's pretrial detention order. Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and 18 U.S.... More...
$0 (12-19-2017 - KS)State of Kansas v. Michael Wayne Still
<h2><br> Dodge City, Kansas drug possession criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant.<br> </h2><br> <br> <br> Charged with various drug-related crimes, Michael Wayne Still entered into a plea agreement with the State, part of which would result in the State recommending a departure from a prison sentence to probation-if Still complied with his bond conditions. Still agreed to plead no con... More...
$0 (09-06-2024 - KS)<h1> United States of America v. Shan Hanes </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of embezzlement by a bank officer. </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Former CEO of failed bank sentenced to prison</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Shan Hanes, 53, of Elkhart pleaded guilty to one count of embezz... More...
$0 (08-19-2024 - KS)<h1> United States of America v. Shan Hanes </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center>Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with embezzle tens of millions of dollars in a cryptocurrency scheme. </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Former CEO of failed bank sentenced to prison</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> While the CEO of Heartland Tri-State Bank (... More...
$0 (08-19-2024 - KS)In the Matter of the Marriage of S.P, and R.P.
<h2><br> Dodge City, Kansas family law lawyers represented the plaintiff and defendant in a divorce.<br> </h2><br> <br> Modern divorce courts spring from the old courts of equity where the judges were guided by one principle: try to do what is right and fair under the circumstances. Modern divorce courts, awarding custody and dividing debts and property between two sparring marriage partners, stil... More...
$0 (08-22-2024 - 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)Dana Breth v. Identity Group Holdings Corp. </center
<h2><br> Wichita, Kansas civil rights Americans With Disabilities lawyer represented the Plaintiff.<br> <h2><br> <br> "At Identity Group, we've been creating and manufacturing interior signs for over 67 years. Founded in the 1950s, we spent decades perfecting our process and forming partnerships with some of the biggest brands in the industry; cementing ourselves as the largest interior sign manuf... More...
$1 (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 D. KEMMERLY </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> cty, st criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant the right to self-representation </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> On the evening of February 17, 2019, Justin Gaston got out of a white Cadillac in <br> the parking lot of a motel in Wichita. One of the ... 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. WILLIAM LOGGINS JR. </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> 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 </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Loggins pleaded guilty in 1981 to aggra... More...
$0 (06-07-2024 - 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. CHARLES RICHARD BOLINGER </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Topeka, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two sex crime charges </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A district court dismissed two sex crime charges against Charles <br> Bolinger based on the statute of limitations. The State appe... More...
$0 (04-12-2024 - 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)Ana Galvan-Gomez v. Signature Landscape, LLC
</center><font color="red"><h2><br> Kansas City, Kansas civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on an Americans with Disabilities Act violation theory.<br> </font </color="red"></h2><br> <br> This case was filed in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, 23-CV-30042, and was removed to federal court by the Defendant.<br> <br> 42 U.S.C. 12101 provides:<br> <br> The Congress ... More...
$1 (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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