New Jersey Jury Verdicts, Settlements and Court Decisions
<h2> <center> Arelis Romero v. Fedex Corporation </h2> </center>
Trenton, New Jersey personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a auto negligence theory. This case was filed in the Middlesex County Superior Court, MID-L-02704-24, and was removed to federal court by Fedex.... More...
$ (02-10-2026 - NJ)<h2> <center> State of New Jersey v. Eric Hampton Manning </h2> </center>
Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder, second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon, and second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose. Eric Hampton Manning, 30, of Newark, was convicted in the fatal shooting of Sharique Ray Young 28, of Newark on March 8, 2022. Surveillance video showed Manning approaching You... More...
$ (02-10-2026 - NJ)<h2> <center> State of New Jersey v. David Parker </h2> </center>
Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder, second-degree conspiracy to commit murder, unlawful possession of a weapon, and second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose. David Parker, 23, of Irvington, his brother Rahman Polen, and two others drove to North Munn Street in East Orange in a stolen sports car, looking for... More...
$ (02-10-2026 - NJ)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Christian Keilberg </h2> </center>
Trenton, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with receipt of child pornography. From November 2020 through November 2022,Christian Keilberg, 34, of Ocean County, New Jersey, was an enlisted active-duty Airman with the United States Department of the Air Force living and working on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, Keilberg used online chat applications and soc... More...
$ (02-11-2026 - NJ)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Matthew Ozol </h2> </center>
Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with one count of possession of child pornography. In August 2025, law enforcement executed a search warrant on Matthew Ozol, 40, of Jersey City, New Jersey . Ozol’s text messages showed that since 2022, Ozol had sent and received messages on encrypted applications expressing a desire to sexually abuse children, ... More...
$ (02-11-2026 - NJ)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Ken Anderson </h2> </center>
Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon. Detectives with the Essex County Sheriff’s Office responded to a tip from a confidential informant in the early evening of July 22, 2025, about a man with a firearm in the area of the Wynona Lipman Gardens housing development located in Newark’s Centr... More...
$ (02-12-2026 - NJ)<h2> <center> State of New Jersey v. Antuane Gregory, </h2> </center>
Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with irst-degree murder, two counts of first-degree attempted murder, three counts of second-degree aggravated assault,and weapons offenses. Antuane Gregory, 46, of Newark, shoot and killed one person and wounded four others on a Newark street. On October 10, 2025, a jury found Antuane Gregory, 46, of Newark, guilt... More...
$ (02-02-2026 - NJ)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Leonardo Ayala </h2> </center>
Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer Stephen Natoli represented the Defendant charged with money laundering and bank bribery. From June 2023 to November 2023, Leonado Ayala, 25, of Homestead, Florida, then a TD Bank employee in Doral, Florida, accepted bribes and leveraged his position to facilitate a money laundering network’s expatriation of over $5.5 million from the United States ... More...
$ (02-02-2026 - NJ)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Felix Clark </h2> </center>
Camden, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer Jeremy McLymont represented the Defendant who was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Felix Clark, a/k/a “Joseph Moore,” a/k/a “Stanley Smith,” 37, of Royse City, Texas, conspired and agreed to receive the proceeds of fraud perpetrated by a co-conspirator in Ghana and transfer proceeds overseas. During the conspiracy, one or more of... More...
$ (01-21-2026 - NJ)<H2> <center> State of New Jersey v. Lando Marc </h2> </center>
Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree aggravated manslaughter, second-degree leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and related offenses. Lando Marc, 34, of Newark, was charged murder for killing Jenny Philistin, of Elizabeth in Irvington in 2021. The case was tried by Assistant Prosecutors Adam Wells and Ibn Alston b... More...
$ (12-31-2025 - NJ)<H2> <center> State of New Jersey v. Almuta Thomas, Quayon Williams-King, and Furquan Boykin Jr. </h2> </center>
Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with murder. 31-year-old Almuta Thomas, 26-year-old Quayon Williams-King, 19-year-old Furquan Boykin Jr., and a 16-year-old male are accused of killing 10-year-old Jordan Garcia and two others in the gunfire on Chancellor Avenue in November, 2025.... More...
$ (12-11-2025 - NJ)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Joseph A. McCallum, Jr. </h2> </center>
Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and making false statements. Joseph A. McCallum, Jr. 70, a former member of the Newark Municipal Council who also served on the Board of Directors of the Newark Community Economic Development Corporation (“NCEDC”), was charged with participating in a scheme to obtain bribes and kickbacks and subsc... More...
$ (12-22-2025 - NJ)<H2> <center> State of New Jersey v. Anthony Nelson </h2> </center>
New Brunswick, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represent the Defendant charged with sexual assault. On December 15th, 2025, Correctional Police Officer Anthony Nelson was arrested without incident and charged with two counts of second-degree Sexual Assault and two counts of fourth-degree Criminal Sexual Contact. Anthony Nelson will be detained at the Middlesex County Adult Correction Cen... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - NJ)<h2> <center> State of New Jersey v. Delpis Reynoso-Castro, et al. </h2> </center>
New Brunswick, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with online child exploitation. Middlesex County Prosecutor announced that twelve arrests of alleged child predators were made in “Operation Bad Santa,” a multi-agency undercover operation targeting people who allegedly were using social media and various online messaging applications in an attempt to lu... More...
$ (12-23-2025 - NJ)<H2> <center> State of New Jersey v. Jordan Jackson-Small </h2> </center>
New Brunswick, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represent the Defendant charged with first-degree murder. On December 21, 2025, at 9:18 A.M., authorities received a 911 call reporting a stabbing. Upon their arrival to a residence on Grove Avenue, they discovered Imani Smith, 26, of Edison with stab wounds. Smith was transported to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital where she was ultimat... More...
$ (12-26-2025 - NJ)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Eric Van Vleet </h2> </center>
Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to bill Medicare for medically unnecessary prescriptions. From February 2018 to September 2019, Eric Van Vleet, 30, of Delray Beach, Florida, operated Hype Med LLC, which generated medically unnecessary prescriptions through a telemarketing and telemedicine scheme. As part of the health care fraud ... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - NJ)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Jesse Foote </h2> </center>
Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with multimillion-dollar durable medical equipment (DME) health care fraud and kickback scheme. From December 2017 to March 2021, Jesse Foote, 60, of Fairfield, Connecticut, conspired with overseas telemarking call centers, DME suppliers, telemedicine companies, and doctors to submit fraudulent claims to health care b... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - NJ)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Neil John Aaron Williamsky </h2> </center>
Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to defraud Medicare of $172 million, commit money laundering, and pay kickbacks and bribes in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute. Neil John Aaron Williamsky, 65, of Marlboro, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit ... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - NJ)<H2> <center> United States of America v. David Holbrook </h2> </center>
Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with for unlawfully prescribing Adderall, a Schedule II controlled substance, and Xanax, a Schedule IV controlled substance. David Holbrook, 70, of Bloomsbury, New Jersey was charged by Indictment with nine counts of unlawfully distributing and dispensing controlled substances, each in violation of Title 21, United Sta... More...
$ (12-12-2025 - NJ)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Jeffrey L. Kniffin </h2> </center>
Trenton, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with armed bank robbery. Jeffrey L. Kniffin, 51, of Wall Township, was accused of armed bank robbery. On October 23, 2024, Kniffin entered a bank in Wall Township, New Jersey armed with a loaded handgun, approached a bank teller, and demanded cash from the teller. After demanding the money, Kniffin removed the ha... More...
$ (12-12-2025 - NJ)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Eliyahua "Eli" Weinstein </h2> </center>
Trenton, New Jersey criminal defendant lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. A New Jersey man who was previously convicted twice of defrauding investors of more than $230 million was sentenced on November 14, 2025 to 37 years in prison for his role in a Ponzi-like fraud scheme that resulted in investor losses of more than $44 million, as well as other offenses, and his co-conspir... More...
$ (12-03-2025 - NJ)<h2> <center> State of New Jersey v. Jaden Thompson </h2> </center>
Toms River, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with attempted murder and eluding. Jaden Thompson was arrested after leading police on a pursuit, crashing his car and then attempting to flee the scene on foot after stabbing a woman.... More...
$ (12-02-2025 - NJ)<H2> <center> State of New Jersey v. Israel Salgado-Miron </h2> </center>
Toms River, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer lawyer represented the Defendant charged with arson. Israel Salgado-Miron was arrested for starting a fire in a basement window well on East Eighth Street before starting two other brush fires.... More...
$ (12-02-2025 - NJ)<h2> <center> David Timpanaro v. Jenkinson's Pavilion, Inc. and Jenkinson's South, Inc. </h2> </center>
Morristown, New Jersey, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a wrongful death negligence theory.<br> <br> The essential facts are undisputed. On September 23, 2020, plaintiffs, accompanied by their minor child, C.T., and then sixty-nine-year-old father and grandfather, Anthony Timpanaro ("decedent"), traveled to defendants' beachfront property to spend the day. By all accou... More...
$0 (11-21-2025 - NJ)<h2> <center> State of New Jersey v. Joseph Blackham </h2> </center>
Morristown, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with DWI.<br> <br> Joseph Blackham was in a running Jeep while intoxicated.<br> <br> <br> The State relied on the community caretaking doctrine to justify the officers' early-morning interaction with defendant and his vehicle at his residence. The "community caretaking "doctrine was first recognized by the United Sta... More...
$0 (11-22-2025 - NJ)<h2> <center> State of New Jersey v. Wilfredo Lugo and Zachary Lieber </h2> </center>
Camden, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with with 3rd-degree Possession of CSAM..<br> <br> Two Camden County men were arrested last month for crimes related to child sexual abuse material (CSAM), reported Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay.<br> <br> <br> <br> Investigations conducted by the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office High Tech Crimes Un... More...
$0 (11-21-2025 - NJ)<h2> <center> State of New Jersey v. Marques Jones </h2> </center>
Camden, County, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted murder.<br> <br> Marques Jones accused of shooting and attempting to kill a Camden County Police Officer.... More...
$0 (11-21-2025 - NJ)<h2> <center> State of New Jersey v. Marques Jones of Camden </h2> </center>
Camden, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree Attempted Murder, second-degree Aggravated Assault.<br> <br> On November 4th, 2025, at approximately 10:50 p.m., officers from the Camden County Police Department were attempting to conduct a pedestrian stop with an adult male – later identified as 25-year-old Marques Jones of Camden – ne... More...
$0 (11-12-2025 - NJ)<h2> <center> State of New Jersey v. . Wilmer A. Velasquez-Orellans </h2> </center>
Camden, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with delayed homicid.<br> <br> On June 13, 2025, at approximately 4:58 a.m., officers from the Lindenwold Police Department were dispatched to the Pinewood Estates apartment complex on the 500 block of East Gibbsoboro Road in Lindenwold for a report of an assault. Upon arrival, officers located the victim suffering from a... More...
$0 (11-12-2025 - NJ)<h2> <center> State of New Jersey v. Anarkis Delgado </h2> </center>
Camden, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer representing the Defendant charged with first-degree murder.<br> <br> Anarkis Delgado was charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of his brother, 29-year-old Raymond Delgado.... More...
$0 (11-04-2025 - NJ)<h2> <center> Ronald Schechter v. Society Hill East Condominium Association, Inc. </h2> </center>
New Brunswick, New Jersey, pro se Plaintiff without a lawyer sued the Defendant on a breach of contract theory.<br> <br> Defendant Society Hill East Condominium Association, Inc., appeals from an order of the Special Civil Part, Small Claims Section, entered after a bench trial, awarding plaintiff Ronald Schechter $1,600 as compensation for repairs he made to his unit, and $42 in court costs. The ... More...
$0 (11-03-2025 - NJ)<h2> <center> State of New Jersey v. Daryel L. Rawls </h2> </center>
Atlantic City, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant seeking post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of trial and appellate counsel, without an evidentiary hearing. <br> ... More...
$0 (11-03-2025 - NJ)<h2> <center> United States of America v. C.R. Kraus, a/k/a Christopher Kraus </h2> </center>
Newark, New Jersey, riminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with healthcare fraud, conspiracy to commit the same, and tax evasion.<br> <br> Just because two witnesses recall events differently does not mean that either is lying let alone that the prosecution should know it. Harry Pizutelli managed New Jersey’s fund o help people with traumatic brain injuries. He fell in lov... More...
$0 (11-03-2025 - NJ)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Rajeri Curry </h2> <center>
Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing heroine and fentanyl.<br> <br> After Rajeri Curry was arrested for distributing heroin and fentanyl, she requested an attorney. The investigators then asked to examine her cell phone, and Curry consented, providing the phone’s passcode. Curry objects to prosecutors using incriminating materials f... More...
$0 (11-03-2025 - NJ)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Denise Davis </h1></center></h1>
Newark, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiring to Defraud The IRS.<br> <br> A Mays Landing woman admitted to conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by filing false employment tax returns that concealed a company’s cash payroll, Acting U.S. Attorney and Special Attorney Alina Habba announced.<br> <br> Denise Davis, 52, of Mays Landing... More...
$0 (10-31-2025 - NJ)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Denise Davis </h1></center></h1>
Camden, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiring to Defraud The IRS<br> <br> <br> A Mays Landing woman admitted to conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by filing false employment tax returns that concealed a company’s cash payroll, Acting U.S. Attorney and Special Attorney Alina Habba announced.<br> <br> Denise Davis, 52, of Mays La... More...
$0 (09-30-2025 - NJ)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Denise Davis </h1></center></h1>
Camden, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiring to Defraud The IRS <br> <br> A Mays Landing woman admitted to conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by filing false employment tax returns that concealed a company’s cash payroll, Acting U.S. Attorney and Special Attorney Alina Habba announced.<br> <br> Denise Davis, 52, of Mays Landing... More...
$0 (09-30-2025 - NJ)<h2> <center> State of New Jersey v. Yolanda Holmes </h2> </center>
Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with multiple counts of official isconduct and falsifying public records.<br> <br> <img width="300" src="https://i0.wp.com/njecpo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Orange-Police-Sergeant-Yolanda-Holmes-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1"><br> <br> Sergeant Yolanda Holmes, 44, of Somerset, is charged with forging the signat... More...
$0 (10-10-2025 - NJ)<h2> <center> State of New Jersey v. Vincent Battiloro </h2> </center>
Elizabeth, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree-murder.<br> <br> Vincent Bartilloro, age 17, is accused of intentially running over and killing two girls riding their bikes.... More...
$0 (10-03-2025 - NJ)<h2> <center> State of New Jersey v. Jared C. Nesmith </h2> </center>
Newark, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder.<br> ... More...
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