Minnesota Jury Verdicts, Settlements and Court Decisions
<h2> <center> United States of America v. Anthony James Kazmierczak </h2> </center>
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assaulting a United States officer. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/about">kent Morlan</a> Anthony James Kazmierczak, 55, was charged with one count of Assaulting a United States Officer.Kazmierczak sat in the front row at an official Minneapolis town hall meeting hosted by U.S. Rep. Ilhan Oma... More...
$ (05-19-2026 - MN)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Abdisatar Ahmed Hassan </h2> </center>
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization. Abdisatar Ahmed Hassan, 23, of Minneapolis, MN,began consuming information from and about ISIS and other State Department designated foreign terrorist organizations in at least 2024. For example, Hassan obtain... More...
$ (04-28-2026 - MN)<h2> <center> Tonita Haire-Cochran v. 24 Restore, Inc. </h2> </center>
Minneapolis, Minnesota, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a breach of contract theory. Plaintiff’s home was significantly damaged in a fire. She contracted with respondent, a restoration company, to perform work on her home. After the work was completed, she sued respondent for poor workmanship, alleging breach of the contract, promissory estoppel, unjust enrichment, negli... More...
$ (04-17-2026 - MN)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Eric Peterson </h2> </center>
Duluth, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with criminal vehicular homicide while under the influence of alcohol. Eric Petersonstruck and killed 38-year-old Amanda Boshey when driving along Lake Vermilion Reservation Road near the Fortune Bay Casino on the Bois Forte Indian Reservation. Peterson hit Ms. Boshey, who was walking on oot, shortly after he left the ... More...
$ (04-17-2026 - MN)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Amiir Mawlid Ali </h2> </center>
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possess of a machine gun by by attaching an illegal machine gun conversion device to a semi-automatic firearm. Amiir Mawlid Ali, 19, of Minneapolis, was arrested after officers found a machine gun in his possession during a routine traffic stop as he was on the way to a high school graduation. Mr. Ali tried t... More...
$ (04-15-2026 - MN)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Derrick John Thompson </h2> </center>
St. Paul, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent do distribute fentanyl and being a felon in possession of a firearm. On June 16, 2023, a trooper with the Minnesota State Patrol observed a black Cadillac Escalade speeding north on I-35W, traveling at 95 miles per hour in a 55 miles per hour speed zone. The trooper observed the driver, la... More...
$ (03-27-2026 - MN)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Michael Lewis </h2> </center>
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with threatening to murder a Member of Congress. Michael Lewis, age 53, of Minneapolis alled the office of a United States Congressperson and left a voicemail threatening murder. When law enforcement went to Lewis’ apartment to speak with him, he admitted to making the call. Lewis was sentenced on one count o... More...
$ (03-18-2026 - MN)<h2> <center> In re the Marriage of De’Vondre Ke’ne Campbell V. Nicole Lee Campbell </h2> </center>
Shakopee, Minnesota, family law lawyers presented the parties in divorce. On September 4, 2025, respondent De’Vondre Ke’ne Campbell filed a petition for dissolution of the parties’ marriage. On November 10, 2025, respondent filed a motion to order a partial distribution of marital assets from the parties’ joint accounts pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 518.58, subd. 3(b) (2024)... More...
$ (03-07-2026 - MN)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Abdulkarim Farah </h2> </center>
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bribery of a juror in violation of 18 U.S.C. 201, which provides: (a) For the purpose of this section— (1) the term “public official” means Member of Congress, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, either before or after such official has qualified, or an officer or employee or person acting for or on be... More...
$ (03-08-2026 - MN)State of Minnesota v. Sriudorn Phaivan
Buffalo, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Criminal Sex Conduct-2nd Degree-Victim Under 13. Criminal Sexual Conduct-2nd Degree-Penalty-Stat. Max. (609.343.2(a))... More...
$ (05-23-2024 - MN)State of Minnesota v. Sriudorn Phaivan
St. Paul, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Theft-Take/Drive Motor Vehicle-No Owner Consent.... More...
$ (02-28-2018 - MN)State of Minnesota v. Hernan Cortes-Valencia
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual assault against a child, sexual assault-carnal abuse and four DUIs. Hernan Cortes-Valencia was charged with sexual assault.... More...
$ (01-22-2015 - MN)United States of America v. Jennifer Marie Stately
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with premeditated murder of minor A and B and murder in the course of committing child abuse. On March 15, 2024, Jennifer Marie Stately, 37, attacked and killed two of her young children. The evidence at trial showed that Stately, when alone with the children at their home on Red Lake Nation, assaulted the boys c... More...
$ (02-27-2026 - MN)United States of America v. Claire Louis Feng
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault on a federal officer resulting in bodily injury. On January 24, 2026, CBP and HSI officers were attempting to establish and maintain a secure perimeter near Nicollet Avenue, between 27th and 28th St. in Minneapolis, following an officer involved shooting. While a CBP officer attempted to arrest an ... More...
$ (02-17-2026 - MN)United States of America v. James Patrick Lyons
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant with interstate transmission of a threat to injury the person of another. James Patrick Lyons, age 45, accused of interstate transmission of threats to injure five federal law enforcement officers on January 18, 2026, On January 14, 2026, in response to an immigration enforcement action, a large group of protesters in... More...
$ (02-17-2026 - MN)United States of America v. Jose Alberto Ramirez
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with interstate transmission of a threat to injury the person of another. Jose Alberto Ramirez, age 29, was charged with interstate transmission of threats to injure a federal law enforcement officer on January 15, 2026. According to court documents, on January 14, 2026, in response to an immigration enforcemen... More...
$ (02-18-2026 - MN)United States of America v. Don Lemon
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendant charged with conspiracy agains rights of religious freedom at a place or worship and injuring, intimidating and interfering with the exercise of a right of religious worship. 18:241 provides: If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Po... More...
$ (02-13-2026 - MN)United States of America v. Anthony Waddell Jefferson and Lester Brown
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Anthony Waddell Jefferson, 37, and Lester Brown, 53, both of Philadelphia, set up businesses in Minneapolis and enrolled as HSS program providers, purportedly to help people with disabilities – including seniors and people with mental illnesses and substance use disorders – find and maintain h... More...
$ (02-10-2026 - MN)United States of America v. Paul Johnson, et al.
Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal defense lawyers represented sixteen individual who were accused of violently federal officers and damaging federal property. Gillian Etherington, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who is alleged to have rammed her car into a United States Border Patrol vehicle and drove away. Border Patrol Agents followed Etherington who drove into oncoming traffic and struck an unmarke... More...
$ (02-09-2026 - MN)State of Minnesota v. Jake Long <.h2>
St. Paul, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with damaging a sculpture that said "Prosecute ICE" at the Minnesota State Capitol. Lang claimed he was "exercising my First Amendment right to artistic expression. Jake participated in the January 6, 2021, invasion of the Capitol building in Washington and was pardoned by Trump.... More...
$ (02-08-2026 - MN)State of Minnesota v. Gregory Maurice Oats, Jr.
St. Paul, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first and third-degree sexual assault. Gregory Maurice Oats, Sr. was charged with first- and third-degree criminal sexual conduct, alleging that he sexually penetrated the victim, E.H., on numerous occasions from 2009 to 2011, when she was under the age of sixteen, and from 2011 to 2013 when she was sixteen and ... More...
$ (01-28-2026 - MN)United States of America v. Jessica Lynn Larson
St. Paul, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making a false statement. While working as a nurse at FMC Rochester, Jessica Lynn Larson, age 38, had a compromising sexual relationship with an inmate. Larson and the inmate exchanged sexually explicit love letters in which they professed their love for one another and discussed various sexual acts. In April 20... More...
$ (01-27-2026 - MN)State of Minnesota v. Eric Dione Birth
Winona, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual assault. Eric Dione Birth was a track coach beginning in 2016, then became a PE teacher at Winona Senior High School in addition to being a track coach. Birth was accused of sexually assaulted three different high school students in 2016, 2017 and in 2022.... More...
$ (01-22-2026 - MN)United States of America v. Aimee Bock
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer John Ellis represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and bribery.... More...
$ (01-21-2026 - MN)<H2> United States of America v. Raul Gutierrez
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant, Raul Gutierrez, charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and theft of government property after breaking into an FBI vehicle and stealing a rifle. “Despite the incitement of violence against federal law enforcement by local officials, which resulted here in the theft of a firearm from an FBI vehicle and t... More...
$ (01-16-2026 - MN)<H2> United States of America v. Damien William Quinn, also known as Ryan William Shattuck
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with production and attempted production of child pornography and cyberstalking. Damien Quinn owned multiple pseudonymous Snapchat and Instagram accounts that he used to “catfish” minor victims in order to receive sexually explicit photographs and videos. Quinn used these accounts to cyberstalk women who att... More...
$ (01-08-2026 - MN)<H2> United States of America v. Abdimajid Mohamed Nur
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. At trial, Abdimajid Mohamed Nur, age 24, and his co-defendants stole more than $47 million in program funds by claiming to serve 18 million meals to kids at more than 30 food distribution sites. The scheme originated out of Empire Cuisine & Market, a small storefront halal market in Shakopee. Empire... More...
$ (11-24-2025 - MN)<H2> United States of America v. Patrick Carl Timberlake, Jr., a/k/a “King”
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of Distribution of Heroin and Fentanyl. Patrick Carl Timberlake, Jr., a/k/a “King,” age 29, is a drug dealer and a felon who is prohibited from possessing weapons. In 2019 and 2020, Timberlake sold poison—heroin containing deadly fentanyl—to two drug users who took Timberlake’s poison, ... More...
$ (12-12-2025 - MN)<H2> United States of America v. Gregory Hamilton
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with RICO Conspiracy and Premeditated Murder for his involvement in the Highs and the August 8, 2021 murder of Darryl Wells, Jr., an innocent bystander who was mistaken for a gang member. Gregory Hamilton, age 29, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, was a member of the Highs—a criminal enterprise that controlled territor... More...
$ (12-16-2025 - MN)<H2> United States of America v. Abdinajib Hassan Yussuf, et al.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. In the Autism fraud scheme, Abdinajib Hassan Yussuf, age 27, has been charged by federal information with one count of wire fraud. As set forth in the information, Yussuf and others devised and carried out a scheme to defraud the Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention benefit, a... More...
$ (12-28-2025 - MN)<H2> United States of America v. Gregory Hamilton
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with RICO Conspiracy and Premeditated Murder for his involvement in the Highs and the August 8, 2021 murder of Darryl Wells, Jr., an innocent bystander who was mistaken for a gang member. Gregory Hamilton, age 29, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, was a member of the Highs—a criminal enterprise that controlled territor... More...
$ (12-16-2025 - MN)<H2> Destiny Dunn v. Donovan W. Frank
Minneapolis, Minnesota, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a job discrimination civil rights violation theory.... More...
$ (12-08-2025 - MN)State of Minnesota v. Marquan Tucker
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer will represent the Defendant charged with two county of second-degree muder.<br> <br> Marquan Tucker, 20, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the death of Patrick Henderson.... More...
$0 (11-14-2025 - MN)State of Minnesota v. Brian Russell Lueck
Ottumwa, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree refusal to submit to blood or breath testing for intoxication.<br> <br> This case concerns the constitutionality of Minn. Stat. § 169A.20, subd. 2(2), the test-refusal statute, as applied to a driver who refuses a chemical test where law enforcement obtained a warrant authorizing only one type of test-eit... More...
$0 (11-12-2025 - MN)<H2> Judith F. Florian v. 3M Company
Minneapolis, Minnesota personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a Personal Injury: Health Care/Pharmaceutical theory.... More...
$1 (11-07-2025 - MN)<H2> United States of America v. Lezly Susana De Leon-Sanchez
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.... More...
$0 (11-07-2025 - MN)<H2> Andrew Verch v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company
Minneapolis, Minnesota insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on an E.R.I.S.A. wrongful denial of employee benefits theory.... More...
$1 (11-07-2025 - MN)United States of America v. Anthony John Crowley
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession and distribution of child pornography.<br> <br> <br> Anthony John Crowley, age 52, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer, charged with possession of child porn. <br> ... More...
$0 (10-28-2025 - MN)Meeka Elliott v. 3M Company, et al.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, personal injury lawyers presented the Plaintiff who who on a product liability theory.<br> <br> AI Overview<br> <br> Minnesota product liability law holds manufacturers, distributors, and retailers accountable for harm caused by defective products under a<br> <br> strict liability standard. This means an injured party does not need to prove negligence, but must show the pro... More...
$1 (10-27-2025 - MN)United States of America v. Evan James Oppegard
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interstate threats to injury.<br> <br> 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) is a federal law that makes it a crime to transmit a communication containing a threat to kidnap or injure another person in interstate or foreign commerce<br> <br> . To be convicted, the government must prove the defendant knowingly transmitted the co... More...
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