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United States of America v. Clifton Mosley

Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with witness-murder and marijuana trafficking. During trial, the Government presented evidence that Mosley was friends and drug-trafficking partners with Davon Carter and Matthew Hightower. Hightower had been indicted for healthcare fraud and extortion, due to information provided to the authorities by his co-wo... More...

(02-24-2026 - MD)
Kilmar Ábrego García v. United States of America

Baltimore, Maryland, immigration law lawyers represented the Plaintiff seeking a declaratory judgment and injunction to prevent the government from deporting him. Kilmar Ábrego García was mistakenly deported to his home country last year. He sought a decision of the Federal District Court that the government had no viable plan for deporting him.... More...

(02-18-2026 - MD)
United States of America v. Mario Valencia-Birruetta

Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute drugs. Mario Valencia-Birruetta, 35, of Corning, California, distributed large quantities of cocaine. As a result of their investigation, in July 2023, investigators learned Valencia-Birruetta was a member of this DTO, so law enforcement placed him o... More...

(02-14-2026 - MD)
United States of America v. Lawrence Nathanial Harris

Greenbelt, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a machine gun and possession with intent to distribute drugs. Lawrence Nathanial Harris, 33, of Temple Hills Maryland, admitted that on November 16, 2022, while law enforcement executed a residential search warrant at his home, he threw a firearm and a bag of marijuana from his room. He possessed ... More...

(01-23-2026 - MD)
United States of America v. Duane Watts

Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer David Walsh -Little represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Beginning in May 2020, and continuing through at least May 2021, Duane Watts, 46, of Baltimore, Maryland, engaged in a conspiracy to defraud and obtain money through materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and ... More...

(01-08-2026 - MD)
United States of America v. IAP Worldwide Services, Inc.

Baltimore, Maryland, commercial litigation lawyers represented the Defendant on a False Claims Act action. The U.S. alleged that on November 4, 2015, IAP undertook the performance of a contract awarded by the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River, Maryland (the Contract). The Contract, among other things, required IAP to maintain and support a certain military aircraft, wh... More...

(12-29-2025 - MD)
United States of America v. Vanessa Valdez

Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with an unemployment insurance (UI) fraud scheme. Beginning in at least May 2020, and continuing through at least September 2021, Vanessa Valdez, 42, of Burtonsville, Maryland, and other co-conspirators, engaged in a conspiracy and sch... More...

(12-23-2025 - MD)
United States of America v. Kamel Hay

Greenbelt, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with involuntary manslaughter. On February 5, 2022, Kamel Hay, 26, of Houston, Texas, was driving his vehicle northbound on the BW Parkway at a high rate of speed as he wove through traffic. Eventually, Hay lost control of his car, striking two other vehicles, before his car left the roadway and struck a tree. His ... More...

(12-22-2025 - MD)
State of Maryland v. Denis C. Thomason

Hagerstown, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with violating a protective order. Legal issue What jurisdiction does a circuit court exercise when ruling on a motion to correct an illegal sentence after initially exercising appellate jurisdiction? APPELLATE PROCEDURE. JURISDICTION. The case addresses the jurisdiction of the circuit court when ruling on a moti... More...

(12-18-2025 - MD)
State of Maryland v. Ashlee Nicole Scott

Salisbury, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with twenty-three counts stemming from her involvement in an August 2023 assault, robbery, and shooting in Salisbury, Maryland. . Whether the evidence was insufficient to support Ms. Scott’s convictions? II. Whether the instruction to the jury on accomplice liability was erroneous? IV. Whether the court vio... More...

(12-17-2025 - MD)
State of Maryland v. Daquwan Hicks

Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a firearm with a nexus to a drug trafficking crime.... More...

(12-17-2025 - MD)
State of Maryland v. Christian Ramos

Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder and related offenses. Christian Ramos, 28, of Aurora, shootings on I-83 in Baltimore County.... More...

(12-14-2025 - MD)
United States of America v. Thaddeus Lamont Wills

Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with commercial armed robbery. After a nine-day trial, on October 25, 2024, a federal jury found Thaddeus Lamont Wills, 52, of Waldorf, Maryland, was found guilty of conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce by robbery, two counts of interference with interstate commerce by robbery, and two counts of carjackin... More...

(12-14-2025 - MD)
United States of America v. Reginald Davis

Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank theft.... More...

(10-23-2025 - MD)
State of Maryland v. Christian Ramos

Baltimore, Maryand, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder and related offenses. Christian Ramos, 28, of Aurora, Illinois was charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder and related offenses. Ramos, who also faces a separate firearm charge in Cecil County. Shortly before midnight on June 18, 202... More...

(10-23-2025 - MD)
Carolyn Hall v. Sheppard Pratt Health System, Inc.

Baltimore, Maryland, civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff title VII failure to accommodate theory. Under Title VII, an employer must provide for a religious accommodation unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the employer, a standard that the Supreme Court recently clarified in Groff v. DeJoy, 600 U.S. 447 (2023). In this case, Carolyn Hall was terminated fro... More...

(10-23-2025 - MD)
United States of America v. Jemel Maurice Lyles, aka Mauricio Lyles

Greenbelt, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud.... More...

(10-22-2025 - MD)
United Stetes of American v. John Robert Bolton,II

Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer is representing the Defendant eight counts of unlawful transmission of national defense information as well as 10 counts of unlawful retention of national defense information. 18:793(d) TRANSMISSION OF NATIONAL DEFENSE INFORMATION (1-8) 18:793(e) RETENTION OF NATIONAL DEFENSE INFORMATION (9-18) Department of Justice Pre... More...

(10-16-2025 - MD)
State of Maryland v. Charles Anthony Boatwright

Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. Charles Anthony Boatwright, age 55, was accused of killing Randolph Smith, age 56. Smith was shot and killed on July 13, 2025 in the 3900 block of Frederick Avenue.... More...

(10-12-2025 - MD)
United States of America v. Jean Brown

Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking. From at least 2000 until 2010, Jean Brown ran a marijuana trafficking organization that transported large amounts of marijuana from Arizona and California to Maryland for distribution in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and Washington, D.C. Brown used tractor trailers and car carrier... More...

(10-10-2025 - MD)
State of Maryland v. William Cook, Jr.

Anapolis, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. William Cook, Jr., age 68, was accused of killing Garnet Elizabeth Griffith, 1989. Griffith was found dead in her apartment from a gun shot wound.... More...

(10-10-2025 - MD)
State of Maryland v. Kamryn Andrews, James Lawson, and Travis Lissau

Centreville, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with manslaughter, assault and reckless endangerment. Kamryn Andrews, 19, of Seaford, Delaware; James Lawson, 20, of Queenstown, Maryland; and Travis Lissau, 27, of Centreville, Maryland, were accused of shooting of a 19-year-old at a house party in Maryland. ... More...

(10-10-2025 - MD)
State of North Dakota v. Isiah Simms

Bismarck, North Dakota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual assault of a child. Isiah Simms was accused of sexually assaulting child on the state Capitol grounds.... More...

(10-07-2025 - MD)
United States of America v. OJ Rashad Green

Greenbelt, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of fentanyl in the Accokeek, Maryland area. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced OJ Rashad Green, 36, aka “Ice,” of Accokeek, Maryland, to nine years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of fentanyl in the Accokeek, Maryland are... More...

(09-30-2025 - MD)
United States of America v. Daniel Michael Harris

Greenbelt, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with four armed robberies while using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Daniel Michael Harris, Sr., 44, of Waldorf, Maryland, to 14 years in federal prison for committing four armed robberies while using, carryi... More...

(09-30-2025 - MD)