Montana Landlord and Tenant Law
<h2> <CENTER> State of Montana v. Thomas Jerry Hill </h2> </cener>
Missoula, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted robbery. 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> In October 2021, Hill was arrested and appeared before the Missoula County Justice Court on charges of robbery and disorderly conduct. He was held at Montana Sta... More...
$ (04-21-2026 - MT)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Gabriela Lopez-Castro </h2> </center>
Billings, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal reentry after removal in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1326.A. 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> The government alleged in court documents that Gabriela Lopez-Castro, 35, was in the country illegally after having ... More...
$ (07-31-2026 - MT)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Rogelio Rogelio Hernandez-Olivares </h2> </center>
Missoula, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal reentry after removal. Reported 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> Rogelio Hernandez-Olivares, 45, was in the United States illegally after having been removed once in 2009 and twice more in March and October of 2025... More...
$ (07-13-2026 - MT)<h2> <center> In re the Marriage of: Preston Bull and Jaqqueline Bull </h2> <center>
Missoula, Montana family law lawyers represented husband and wife in a divorce. Reported 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>... More...
$ (06-16-2026 - MT)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Andrew Dwayne Johnson and Carrie Jeanine Johnson </h2> </center>
Great Falls, Montana, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with wire fraud, and to two years for one count of aggravated identity theft. Reported 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> Andrew Dwayne Johnson, 49, and Carrie Jeanine Johnson, 46, stole checks from their next-door neighbor ... More...
$ (06-21-2026 - MT)<h2> <center> United State of America v. Kadin Hawkeye Lewis </h2> </center>
Billings, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of unregistered destructive devices. Reported by <a href="http://www.morelaw.com/about" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Kadin Hawkeye Lewis, 24, in 2022, lived in a trailer in Pray, an unincorporated community in Park County, Montana. Officers obtained a search warrant for the trailer and inside ... More...
$ (05-21-2026 - MT)<h2> <center> United States of America v. James “Jimmy” Has The Eagle, Jr. </h2> </center>
Great Falls, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in Indian Country. On July 17, 2024, Jane Doe 1 and James “Jimmy” Has The Eagle, Jr., 41, caught a ride to a residence in Lodgepole. Has The Eagle started getting angry at Jane Doe 1 and started beating on her in the vehicle. When they got close to the ... More...
$ (03-27-2026 - MT)<h2> <center> State of Montana v. Franciso Padilla-Canales </h2> </center>
Bozeman, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Deliberate Homicide, Aggravated Kidnapping, Witness Tampering, and Aggravated Burglary. On July 6, 2022, Padilla-Canales1 broke into a home where his wife, Gloryangelise Padilla Navarro, was spending the night. The couple had separated, and Navarro had begun a romantic relationship with Lesman Escobar Andara. Upon... More...
$ (03-18-2026 - MT)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Violet Jeanee Littlelight </h2> </center>
Billings, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with carjacking resulting in death. Violet Jeanee Littlelight, 22, arranged for John Doe to pick her up at her residence in Billings. Prior to meeting Doe, Littlelight and co-defendants planned to rob Doe and take his truck. Once they took Doe’s truck, they planned to give it to a drug dealer in Hardin in exchange f... More...
$ (03-09-2026 - MT)United States of America v. Ryan David Schreder
Billings, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making a false statement in the process of acquiring a firearm. The government began investigating Ryan David Schreder, 45, after repeatedly being told about his escalating behavior. On October 10, 2024, the Yellowstone County Sheriff’s Office obtained and executed a search warrant for Schreder’s residence. Th... More...
$ (02-09-2026 - MT)United States of America v. Lane Blake Kirkaldie
Great Falls, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with: 18:113A.F STRANGULATION Title 18 U.S.C. §§ 1153(a) and 113(a)(8) (1) 18:113C.F ASSAULT WITH A DANGEROUS WEAPON; TITLE 18 USC 1153(a) and 113(a)(3) (1s) 18:113E.P SIMPLE ASSAULT (PETTY OFFENSE); TITLE 18 USC 1153(a) and 113(a)(5) (2s) Lane Blake Kirkaldie, 21, was told to leave the house. Jane... More...
$ (01-29-2026 - MT)<H2> United States of America v. Joseph Wayne Cree Medicine, Jr.
Great Falls, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with involuntary manslaughter. Joseph Wayne Cree Medicine, 41, crashed his Dodge Durango. The back seat passenger, John Doe, died as a result. The crash occurred after Cree Medicine left the roadway, overcorrected, and ultimately rolled the vehicle. Montana Highway Patrol conducted the crash investigation and determ... More...
$ (01-16-2026 - MT)<H2> United States of America v. Justin Curtis Huckaby
Great Falls, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with two counts of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The government alleged in court documents and at trial that Justin Curtis Huckaby, age 44, was convicted of a felony in the Montana Thirteenth Judicial District on June 5, 2019. He was sentenced to a period of custody of up to 15... More...
$ (01-08-2026 - MT)<H2> United States of America v. Tracy Routh Lautenslager,
Missoula, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempting to smuggle a citizen of Great Britain into the United States. The government alleged in court documents that on April 1, 2025, a vehicle entered the United States through the Roosville, Montana Port of Entry. The vehicle was operated by the Tracy Routh Lautenslager, 54,, a United States citizen. She wa... More...
$ (01-08-2026 - MT)<H2> State of Montana v. Ayden Sakary Klompien
Bozeman, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represents Ayden Sakary Klompien charged with robbery and criminal possession of dangerous drugs. The Defendant is accused of robbing a man in the bathroom of in Town Pump in Belgrade.... More...
$ (12-30-2025 - MT)<H2> United States of America v. Tori Lee Hutzenbieler
Billings, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing methamphetamine and fentanyl. In May 2023, law enforcements officers learned from a source of information that Tori Lee Hutzenbieler, 46, was selling drugs in the Billings area. The source said Hutzenbieler concealed drugs in a trap compartment inside her Toyota Camry. Law enforcement learned through ... More...
$ (12-17-2025 - MT)<H2> United States of America v. Rex Wu, Jr.
Butte, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with cyber stalling. 18 U.S. Code § 2261 - Interstate domestic violence (a) Offenses.— (1) Travel or conduct of offender.— A person who travels in interstate or foreign commerce or enters or leaves Indian country or is present within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States with th... More...
$ (12-17-2025 - MT)<H2> United States of America v. Tori Lee Hutzenbieler
Billings, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing methamphetamine and fentanyl, In May 2023, law enforcements officers learned from a source of information that Tori Hutzenbieler, age 46, was selling drugs in the Billings area. The source said Hutzenbieler concealed drugs in a trap compartment inside her Toyota Camry. Law enforcement learned through... More...
$ (12-18-2025 - MT)<H2> United States of America v. Usman Hanif Khan
Billings, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with use of a facility in interstate commerce in aid of racketeerring. Usman Hanif Khan, 52, was charged with one count of use of a facility of interstate commerce to aid in racketeering. prior to April 9, 2023, Khan met a woman on a social media website for those interested in a commercial sex relationship. Then, o... More...
$ (12-04-2025 - MT)Ira A. Troyer v. Maryland Casualty Company, et al.
Missoula, Montana, insurance law lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a bad faith breach of insurance contract theory.<br> <br> AI Overview<br> In Montana, an insurance company breaches the implied covenant of "good faith" by knowingly or recklessly failing to settle a claim or by acting with unfair or deceptive practices, such as misrepresenting policy provisions, unreasonably delaying a claim, o... More...
$1 (10-28-2025 - mt)United States of America v. Keith Andre Green
Missoula, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute drugs and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.... More...
$0 (10-28-2025 - MT)<h1> United States of America v. Leobardo Ricardo Torres-Torres </h1></h1>
Great Falls, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal reentry.<br> <br> A Mexican man who was in the United States illegally was sentenced yesterday to a term of time-served and remanded to the U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.<br> <br> Leobardo Ricardo Torres-Torres, 38, pleaded guilty in April 2025 to illegal reentry.<br> <br> The government... More...
$0 (10-25-2025 - MT)United States of America v. Tracy Allen Reilly
Helena, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with failure to register as a sex offender in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2250, which provides:<br> <br> (a) In General.—Whoever—<br> (1) is required to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act;<br> (2)<br> (A) is a sex offender as defined for the purposes of the Sex Offender Registration a... More...
$0 (10-19-2025 - MT)United States of America v. David Antonio Molina-Mendoza
Billings, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with re-entry of a deported alien.<br> <br> Any alien who—<br> <br> (1) has been denied admission, excluded, deported, or removed or has departed the United States while an order of exclusion, deportation, or removal is outstanding, and thereafter<br> (2) enters, attempts to enter, or is at any time found in, the U... More...
$0 (10-19-2025 - MT)State of Montana v. Michael Paul Brown
Butte, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder.<br> <br> Michael Paul Brown, age 45, is accused of shooting and killing four people in an Anaconda bar.... More...
$0 (08-01-2025 - MT)State of Montana v. Leslie Lambert
Missoula, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated kidnapping.<br> <br> Leslie Lambert, age 53, was accused of kidnapping and battering his ex-wife. ... More...
$0 (10-08-2025 - MT)State of Montana v. Dante Garriott
Billings, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder.<br> <br> Dante Garriott was accused for beating a nursing home resident to death.<br> <br> The Defendant was accused of punching and kicking Alan Wright, age 32, at a group home in the Billings Heights. He was 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighed 108 pounds, and he had the cognitive function of a 2- or 3-year-ol... More...
$0 (10-08-2025 - MT)United States of America v. Brandley Ron Calfrobe
Billings, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm and ammuniton.... More...
$0 (10-02-2025 - MT)Virgal DRM, LLC v. Ressler Motor Company
Butte, Montana, intellectual property lawyers represented the parties in a trademark infringement dispute. <br> <br> Trademark infringement is the unauthorized use of a registered or unregistered trademark on goods or services that is likely to cause consumer confusion, deception, or mistake about the source of the goods. To prove infringement, a plaintiff must show they own a valid trademark, tha... More...
$0 (10-08-2025 - MT)United States of America v. Amanda Renee Quequesah =
Missoula, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute fentayl Near aschool and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.... More...
$0 (10-08-2025 - MT)State of Montana v. Loren Smoker
Billings, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony deliverate homicidenan d tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.<br> <br> Loren Smoker was arrested on June 23, 2024 for shooting and killing 27-year-old Dennis Rolon at the intersection of Central Avenue and Shiloh Road. Rolon was found by police inside his car with a gunshot wound to his head, along... More...
$0 (09-26-2025 - MT)United States of America v. Gabriel Cowan Metcalf
Billing, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with violation of the Gun-Free School Zones Act, 18 U.S.C. § 922(q)(2)(A),<br> <br> Gabriel Cowan Metcalf lives in Billings, Montana,<br> across the street from a public elementary school. For<br> several days in August 2023—before the schoolyear<br> started—Metcalf patrolled outside his home with a shotg... More...
$0 (09-26-2025 - MT)<h1> United States of America v. Raymond Marcellous Blair </h1></h1>
Great Falls, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering one count of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering <br> <br> A Great Falls man with prior felony convictions who lied about his income and his criminal history to obtain COVID funds was found guilty by Chief U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris yeste... More...
$0 (09-24-2025 - MT)<h1> United States of America v. Raymond Marcellous Blair </h1></h1>
Great Falls, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and money laundering for fraudulent use of COVID funds <br> <br> A Great Falls man with prior felony convictions who lied about his income and his criminal history to obtain COVID funds was found guilty by Chief U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris yesterday, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.<br> <br> Follo... More...
$0 (09-24-2025 - MT)United States of America v. Christopher Todd Boudreau
Billings, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted coercion and<br> enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) and possession of child<br> pornography under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B).<br> <br> Detective Travis Wafstet works in the Missoula County<br> Sheriff's Office and is also a member of the FBI's Child<br... More...
$0 (09-18-2025 - MT)State of Montana v. Alison Beth Careter-Brueggeman
Hamilton, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug possession<br> <br> On the evening of September 4, 2023, Ravalli County Deputy Sheriff Thomas Hsu pulled over Brueggeman for driving a car with expired registration. The traffic stop was not the result of a random encounter with a law enforcement officer.¶4Earlier that evening, the Ravalli County Dispatch recei... More...
$0 (09-08-2025 - MT)United States of America v. Farron Gene American Horse, Sr.
Great Falls, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual abuse and abusive sexual contact.<br> <br> Farron Gene American Horse, Sr., 40, was found guilty by a jury in April 2025 of sexual abuse and abusive sexual contact.<br> <br> American Horse sexually abused the victims in September and October 2020 in Hays, on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. In October 20... More...
$0 (09-08-2025 - MT)State of Montana v. Lorne Douglas Edwards Nicols
Great Falls, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with criminal endangerment.<br> <br> Lorne Douglas Edwards Nichols is accused of discharging a firearm and injuring a 17-year-old who was hit by a bullet. <br> <br> ... More...
$0 (09-09-2025 - MT)United States of America v. Deric Ron Welch
Great Falls, Montana, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of an unregistered silencer in violation of Title 26 U.S.C. §§ 5841 and 586l(d). ... More...
$0 (09-08-2025 - MT)State of Montana v. Jaylen Medicinebull
Billings, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged h possession of stolen property, assault on a peace officer, criminal endangerment, obstructing a peace officer, fleeing or eluding a peace officer, criminal mischief and DUI. <br> <br> Jaylen Medicinebull, age 32, fled from police in a stolen vehicle.<br> <br> ... More...
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