Legal News for Balitmore, Maryland
State of Maryland v. Michael Maurice Johnson
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged two counts of first-degree rape and one count of first-degree assault. Michael Maurice Johnson was accused of attacking his girlfriend in Baltimore County in 2024.... More...
(04-24-2026 - MD)United States of America v. Nicholas Parks
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering. Nicholas Parks, 53, of Winnetka, California, admits that from October 2020 through January 2021, he participated in a conspiracy to launder proceeds he and his associates generated through selling marijuana in Maryland. As part of the conspiracy, female co-conspirators tran... More...
(04-14-2026 - MD)United States of America v. Anika Bywter
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to engage in illicit sexual contact in foreign places. While living in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, Anika Bywater, 29, formerly of Gonzalez, Texas, and another person created two separate videos of themselves sexually abusing a young child. Law enforcement officers learned of the conduct when they... More...
(03-25-2026 - MD)State of Maryland v. Edgar Christopher Bradford
Rockville, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with third-degree sex offense.... More...
(03-23-2026 - MD)United States of America v. Jason Michael Leidel
Greenbelt, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with cyberstalking in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2261. Jason Michael Leidel, 45, of Silver Spring, Maryland, engaged in berstalking his ex-wife and her boyfriend. on multiple occasions, Leidel sent emails with false allegations to get Victim 1, his ex-wife, fired from her job as a special education teacher at a publ... More...
(03-14-2026 - MD)State of Maryland v. Bryan Betancur
Rockville, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with assault and battery. Bryan Betancur, 28, of Silver Spring, Maryland, setting fire to a female passengers’ hair on Metro trains in the D.C. area. The Defendant was charged, convicted and pardoned for his participation in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.... More...
(03-04-2026 - MD)United States of America v. Tammy Barcus
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. From 2016 through 2024, Tammy Barcus, age 57, of Berlin, Maryland, a former office manager and bookkeeper for an Ocean City-based home builder, embezzled approximately $1.79 million from her former employer. Barcus used her position of trust to embezzle funds from her em... More...
(03-04-2026 - MD)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...
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