Nevada Jury Verdicts, Settlements and Court Decisions
<h2> <center> United States of America v. Tamilo Pale Fe’a </h2> </center>
Reno, Nevada, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with theft of government property. Tamilo Pale Fe’a a former U.S. Department of the Army employee and Sparks, Nevada, resident pleaded guilty today to using his Army credit card to make nearly $2,800 of purchases for his personal vehicle. From September 21, 20220, to August 11, 2021, Tamilo Pale Fe’a, also known as... More...
$ (09-28-2026 - nv)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Christian Brandon O’Neal Scurlock </h2> </center>
Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking two minors and bringing the Las Vegas so they could engage in commercial sex work. In July 2025, Christian Brandon O’Neal Scurlock, 23, of Moreno Valley, California, pleaded guilty to one count of sex trafficking of a minor.... More...
$ (09-18-2026 - NV)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Brent Kovar </h2> </center>
Las Vegas, Nevada criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343 and money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1957. From late 2017 to July 2021, Brent C. Kovar owned Profit Connect, a Las Vegas-based company that purportedly used artificial intelligence software on a supercomputer to mine cryptocurrency and verify other cryptocurrency... More...
$ (08-31-2026 - NV)<h2> <center> State of Nevada v. Duane 'Keffe D' Davis </h2> </center>
Las Vegas, Nevada criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. Duane 'Keffe D' Davis was accused of placing himself at the drive-by shooting on Sept. 6, 1996, and admitting to taking part in the murder without pulling the trigger himself in the killing of Tupac Shakur. In interviews, Davis admitted involvement in the murder in a book to make money.... More...
$ (08-31-2026 - NV)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Brent Kovar </h2> </center>
Las Vegas, Nevada criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343 and money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1957. 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> From late 2017 to July 2021, Brent C. Kovar owned Profit Connect, a Las Vegas-based ... More...
$ (08-28-2026 - NV)<h2> <center> State of Nevada v. Duane Davis </h2> </center>
Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with committing a murder in 1996. 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> Duane Davis is accused of shooting and killing Tupac Shakur, who was riding inside a vehicle when he was shot four times at a red light on Flamingo Roa... More...
$ (08-17-2026 - NV)<h2> <center> State of Nevada v. Francisco Chairez-Hernandez </h2> </center>
Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with open murder with a deadly weapon, attempted murder with a deadly weapon, assault with a deadly weapon, and discharge of a firearm at or into an occupied structure or vehicle. 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> Franc... More...
$ (08-14-2026 - nv)<h2> <center> United States of America v. John Matthew Chapman </h2> <center>
Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with kidnapping resulting in death in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1201(a)(1). 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> Chapman suffers from autism, Tourette syndrome, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Attention Deficit Hyperac... More...
$ (08-05-2026 - NV)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Stephen Dubin, M.D. </h2> </center>
Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud in violation of 18 USC 1349 and health care fraud in violation of 18 USC 1347. 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> Stephen Dubin, M.D., 74, of Henderson, Nevada, is accused o... More...
$ (08-05-2026 - NV)<h2> <CENTER> United States of America v. Cynthia Marie Marabella and William Keolanui Costa </h2> </center>
Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343 and engaging in transactions in unlawful proceeds in violation of 18 U.S.C. 195l7. 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> From January 1, 2018, to about February 28, 2025, Cyn... More...
$ (07-31-2026 - NV)<h2> <center> State of Nevada v. Joseph Robert Austin </h2> <center>
Reno, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charge with home invasion, two counts of destruction of property, and attempted home invasion. 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...
$ (06-21-2026 - NV)<h2> <center> Untied States of America v. Ky’von Love Bernard Payne
Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with trafficking in stolen firearms firearms. 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> Ky’von Love Bernard Payne admitted that on March 25, 2024, he and co-defendant Semaj’e Ridgeway possessed 35 stolen firearms – includ... More...
$ (06-21-2026 - NV)<h2> <center> State of Nevada v. Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse </h2> </center>
Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with multiple charges of sexual assault against Indigenous women and girls. Lee Chasing His Horse, age 48, an actor in Dances with Wolves and other projects, was charged with more than a dozen sexually related crimes.... More...
$ (04-30-2026 - NV)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Francisco Felix and Alexis Arturo Martinez </h2> </center>
Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with trafficking significant quantities of fentanyl pills, fentanyl powder, and methamphetamine, and for laundering drug proceeds to Mexico. Francisco Felix and Alexis Arturo Martinez, also known as Arego Martinez Reglado, conspired to distribute large quantities of fentanyl and methamphetamine. On April 9, federal l... More...
$ (04-13-2026 - NV)<h2> <center> State of Nevada v. Joey Terral Chadwick </h2> </center>
Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving personal injury. Nevada’s appellate courts have not previously addressed the admissibility of evidence of a defendant’s alcohol consumption and apparent intoxication while driving in cases where the defen- dant is charged with leaving the scene of an accident in vi... More...
$ (02-29-2024 - NV)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Michael J. Moore </h2> </center>
Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempt to evade or defeat the payment of taxes. Michael J. Moore, of Las Vegas, operated a tax and accounting business known as X Tax Pros that he used to promote an illegal tax avoidance scheme. Moore advertised X Tax Pros as being the “only” tax and bookkeeping company specializing in clients from the adult... More...
$ (03-27-2026 - NV)<h2> <center> State of Nevada v. Edward A. Preiado
Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyers Lisa Rasmussen and Lisa A. Rasmussen represented the Defendant charge with voluntary manslaughter with the use of a deadly weapon. Edward Preciado engaged in a physical altercation with Kim Long. During the altercation, Preciado repeatedly struck Long in the head with a hammer, killing her. Preciado claimed self- defense, but a jury convicted Prec... More...
$ (03-18-2026 - NV)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Josiah Jodah </h2> </center>
Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking. On July 17, 2024, Josiah Judah was introduced by co-defendant Urkeno Walter as the co-defendant’s “right hand man”. During the conversation, Judah said Walter used him in drug sale negotiations with Mexican drug traffickers and Judah often received complimentary rooms at a hotel which he us... More...
$ (03-09-2026 - NV)State of Nevada v. Cythia Roes
Reno, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with child abuse and neglect. Cythia Roes. age 53, accused of child abuse and neglect charges after an investigation into a three-year-old child who fell from a moving vehicle.... More...
$ (02-22-2026 - NV)State of Nevada v. Nathan Chasing Horse
Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer Craig Mueller represented the Defendant charged with 13 counts of sexual assault of a minor. Nathan Chasing Horse, age 49, was accused of sexually assaulting a minor. Chasing Horse was in "Dances With Wolves" was one of the most prominent films featuring Native American actors when it premiered in 1990. After Chasing Horse appeared in the Oscar-winn... More...
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$ (02-01-2026 - NV)State of Nevada v. Nathan Chasing Horse
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$ (02-01-2026 - NV)State of Nevada v. Nathan Chasing Horse
Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexually assaulting a minor. Nathan Chasing Horse, age 49, accused of assaulting a 14-year-old girl.... More...
$ (02-01-2026 - NV)State of Nevada v. Jose Aviles
Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with assaulting a police officer. Jose Aviles, 33, who was taken into custody after assaulting a police officer the Planet Hollywood Casino.... More...
$ (01-29-2026 - NV)United States of America v. Ulian Ohye-Michiko
Las Vegas, Nevada criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegally reentering the United States for the 12fh time. Ulian Ohye-Michiko, 48, is a citizen and national of Mexico who was previously deported on 11 prior occasions since 2008 and reentered the United States illegally after his most recent removal in 2020. On December 27, 2025, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police a... More...
$ (01-29-2026 - NV)<H2> United States of America v. Kurtis Lee Solomon
Reno, Nevada criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possession of Child Pornography. Beginning on a date unknown and continuing up to and including September 9, 2021, Kurtis Lee Solomon, formerly of Fernley, Nevada, knowingly and repeatedly accessed child pornography websites over the internet and viewed child sexual abuse material that included preteens and babies. Solo... More...
$ (01-13-2026 - NV)<H2> Employees at the Clark Couonty Government Center and/or its Property v. Monsanto Company, et al.
Las Vegas, Nevada personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on exposure to toxic wastes. Plaintiffs originally brought this case in Nevada state court alleging that some of the waste dumped at the site contained polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and that the former Monsanto Company (Old Monsanto) manufactured more than 99 percent of all PCBs sold in the United States. Old Mons... More...
$ (12-29-2025 - NV)<H2> United States of America v. Harold Wesley Snowten IV
Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a machine gun, possession of six firearms, and possession of more than 50 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute that methamphetamine to another person. In April 2023, Harold Wesley Snowten IV, also known as “Insane,” unlawfully possessed six firearms, including a Taurus G2c 9x19m... More...
$ (12-18-2025 - NV)<H2> United States of America v. Eduardo "Eddie" Ruben Lopez
Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to fix the wages of home healthcare nurses. Eduardo "Eddie" Lopez of Las Vegas was accused of defrauding pruchasers to home home health care. “American workers are the bedrock of President Trump’s administration,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “We will continue to tirelessly fight for t... More...
$ (12-09-2025 - NV)<H2> United States of America v. R.C. Crutcher
Reno, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with witness tampering. March 11, 2025, to March 16, 2025, R.C. Crutcher made attempts to persuade a victim from testifying at a federal trial. Crutcher made multiple phone calls from jail to his mother, asking his mother to locate and persuade a victim not to show up for trial so his case would be dismissed. Following a... More...
$ (12-09-2025 - NV)<H2> Jeanne Llera and Jorge L. Gomez v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
Las Vegas, Nevada, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on 42 U.S.C. 1983 civil rights violation theories.... More...
$1 (11-18-2025 - NV)<H2> United States of America v. Triston Harris Steinman
Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.<br> <br> The district court suppressed evidence seized from Triston Harris Steinman's car on multiple grounds, including that a law enforcement officer violated his Fourth Amendment rights during a traffic stop. The Government appeals the suppression order, cont... More...
$0 (11-18-2025 - NV)United States of America v. Gregory W. Pheasent
Las Vegas, Nevada criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with failure to use required taillight at night on an ATM on federal land.<br> <br> Pheasant involves an Icarus-like criminal prosecution of a dirt biker stemming from an alleged taillight infraction on federal land managed by the BLM. The incident occurred in the context of "a special operation†by BLM "to ensure a ... More...
$0 (11-10-2025 - NV)<H2> State of Nevada v. Ocean Celestino Camacho
Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder with the use of a deadly weapon, and two firearm discharge offenses.<br> <br> Brandon Morales and two friends, Joshua Nunez and Humberto Oceguedo-Ramos, drove to a Las Vegas gas station, where they met Ca... More...
$0 (11-06-2025 - NV)State of Nevada v. Tiktok, Inc., et al.
Las Vegas, Nevada commercial litigation lawyers represented the Plaintiffs seeking a writ of prohibition or, alternatively, mandamus challenging a district court order denying a motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and for failure to state a claim in a consumer protection action.<br> <br> The State of Nevada filed a complaint against petitioners TikTok, Inc., and its related entiti... More...
$0 (11-07-2025 - NV)State of Nevada v. Mario Ortiz-Gonzalez
Elko, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony dirving under the influence with one or more prior felony DUI Convictions.... More...
$0 (05-06-2025 - NV)<H2> Tom Koch v. UNUM Group, et al.
Las Vegas, Nevada criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-3. <br> <br> A claim of retaliation under Title VII is governed by the three-step<br> burden-shifting framework under McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S.<br> 792, 802–05 (1973). First, the plaintiff must establish a prima ... More...
$0 (11-07-2025 - NV)United States of America v. Ryan Keith Tyler
Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography.... More...
$0 (10-29-2025 - NV)<h1> United States of America v. Tyler Monson </h1></h1>
Reno, Nevada criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of transportation of a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.<br> <br> A Winnemucca man was sentenced to 10 years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for transporting a 15-year-old girl from Colorado to Nevada, and having sexual contact with her, after meeting each other on... More...
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