Great Falls, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with using or possessing fraudulent immigration docuemtns in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1546, which provides:

he first paragraph of 18 U.S.C. § 1546(a) proscribes the forging, counterfeiting, altering or falsely making of certain immigration documents or their use, possession, or receipt. The second paragraph pros... More...    $0 (07-07-2025 - MT)

Great Falls, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute meth.

21 U.S.C. 841 provides:

(a) Unlawful actsExcept as authorized by this subchapter, it shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally—
(1) to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture, distribute, or disp... More...    $0 (07-10-2025 - MT)

Great Falls, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud.

18 U.S.C. § 1343, the federal wire fraud statute, defines and criminalizes the use of interstate or foreign wire communications to execute a scheme intended to defraud someone of money or property. Essentially, it's a form of fraud that leverages electronic communication for deceptive purposes... More...    $0 (07-10-2025 - MT)

Billings, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud.

18 U.S.C. 1343 provides:

Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or televisi... More...    $0 (07-02-2025 - MT)

Helena, Montana personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on false arrest and other legal theories.

Yoder commenced a civil action against the parties involved in his 2021 arrest, the prosecution, and his defense as well as the presiding judge in a criminal case.

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PROCEDURAL LAW. APPELLATE PROCEDURE. The case involves the dismissal of ... More...    $0 (01-07-2025 - MT)

Missoula, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit burglary.


In 2009, Mays pleaded guilty in two separate cases, DC-09-60 (Conspiracy to Commit Burglary) and DC-07-419 (Robbery), in the Fourth Judicial District Court. For DC-09-60, the District Court sentenced him to the Department of Corrections (DOC) for a suspended five-year term ... More...    $0 (11-19-2024 - MT)

Lodge Grass man sentenced to 15 years in prison for role in large-scale meth trafficking ring on Crow Indian Reservation; ass... More...    $0 (05-07-2024 - MT)

On May 15, 2019, Officer Haynes saw Rossbach riding a bike that matched the
description of one that had been reported stolen and tried to stop him. Rossbach did not
stop for Officer Haynes, and Officer Haynes ran after him. The two ended up in a physical
altercation when Rossbach would not comply with Officer Haynes’s orders, and these
charges resulted.
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¶4 The Off... More...    $0 (02-04-2024 - MT)

Missoula, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to violate the Lacey Act by unlawfully trafficking Bald and Golden Eagles.

The government has acussed Simon Paul and Travis John Branson of hunting and killing bald eagles.

The United States Attorney's office alleges the two men killed over 3,600 birds, among them an unspecified number of... More...    $0 (12-14-2023 - MT)

Spokane, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with Assault with a Deadly Weapon on a Federal Law Enforcement Officer in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 111(a)(1), (b) as well as Discharge of a Firearm During a Crime of Violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c).

In early November 2021, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATFâ€�) Confidentia... More...    $0 (07-13-2023 - MT)

Billings, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with cashing stolen checks at a bank and illegally possessing a gun during a standoff with law enforcement before his arrest.


Jesse Lee Hospkins, age 38, a transient, defrauded Stockman Bank by passing stolen and forged checks at branch offices to obtain money. Hopkins forged the signature of John Doe 1, a real ... More...    $0 (05-08-2023 - MT)

Missoula, Montana personal Injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a Federal Tort Claims Act Medical Malpractice theory.

The claims made and defenses asserted by the parties relating to the death of Howard Mount, Sr. are not available.

The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) is a federal law that waives the sovereign immunity of the United States and allows individua... More...    $0 (04-10-2023 - MT)

¶ 1 Chester R. Bauer (Bauer) appeals from the denial of his petition for post-conviction relief by the Seventeenth Judicial District Court, Blaine County. We reverse and remand for resentencing.

¶ 2 The sole issue on appeal is whether the District Court erred in concluding that Bauer was not entitled to resentencing on due process grounds.

Factual and Proce... More...    $0 (08-03-1999 - MT)

Defendant Chester Bauer appeals from his convictions in the District Court of the Second Judicial District, Silver Bow County, on charges of sexual intercourse without consent and aggravated assault. We affirm.

On January 26, 1983, D.K. was forcibly raped at knife point in her Butte, Montana, home. The rapist, identified by D.K. as the defendant, Chester Bauer, had come to th... More...    $0 (06-04-1984 - MT)