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United States of America v. Lindsey Yazzie; Brandon Barber
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Violent Carjacking and High-Speed Chase Shiprock Duo Sentenced for Violent Carjacking and High-Speed Chase Two individuals from Shiprock have been...
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( 03-18-2025 - NM)

United States of America v. Christopher Kee
Albquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault and battery in Indiana country. Christopher Kee was convicted and sentenced for assaulting and battering his girlfriend in April of 2020 in Shiprock New Mexico. Kee claimed that his due process rights were violated under Doyle v. Ohio, 426 U.S. 610 (1976), which provides: Despit...
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( 02-27-2025 - NM)

United States of America v. Ted Joseph Valdez
Albuquerque, New Mexico, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to transport aliens. Defendant worked in South Dakota on solar windmills. He was in a serious car accident and claims he sustained a traumatic brain injury. After the accident, he moved to Mexico and worked at a food stand for less income. He accepted an offer to drive two aliens from s...
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( 02-24-2025 - NM)

United States of America v. Dennett Jerome Chee
Albuquerque, New Mexico, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault in Indian Country resulting in great bodily injury. Mr. Chee is a member of the Mescalero Apache tribe. In May 2022, he and a friend severely beat an adult male on the Mescalero Apache Reservation. The victim incurred orbital wall fractures in both eye sockets, sinus hemorrhaging, and other inj...
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( 02-21-2025 - NM)

United States of America v. Eloy Romero
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing methamphetamine and fentanyl with an intent to distribute under 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A) and (B), and with possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). During a traffic stop, police learned that Eloy Romero had a suspended driver...
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( 02-11-2025 - NM)

Amanda Cuellar v. Dolgencorp., L.L.C.
Albuquerque, New Mexico civil litigation lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a civil rights violation theory. Legal issue Can the parties in a legal case obtain a stipulated protective order to safeguard confidential and proprietary information during discovery? Key Phrases Stipulated Protective Order. Confidential proprietary information. Federal Rules of Civil Procedu...
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( 01-31-2025 - NM)

United States of America v. Jack Trujillo; Alberto Gomez; Cedric Kulka; Christopher Hulsey
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking U.S. Attorney’s Office Announces Final Sentencings in Major Albuquerque Drug Trafficking Case An investigation revealed that the ...
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( 01-30-2025 - NM)

United States of America v Marc Gene Clark
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fatal stabbing U.S. Attorney’s Office Announces Sentencing in Shiprock Fatal Stabbing On October 24, 2021, following a night of drinking and soc...
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( 01-30-2025 - NM)

United States of America v. Juan Hugo Lugo
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Drug Trafficking U.S. Attorney's Office Secures 19-Year Sentence in Drug Trafficking Case On June 14, 2023, a BIA K9 Officer observed Juan Hu...
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( 01-30-2025 - NM)

T United States of America v. Tyler Miles Leveque
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interstate communications containing a threat against President Donald J. Trump U.S. Attorney, U.S. Secret Service and FBI Announce Federal Charges Against Albuquerque Man for Making Threats Against P...
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( 01-30-2025 - NM)

Ronald Howes v. New Mexico Department of Health
Albuquerque, New Mexico civil litigation lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a breach of contract claim. Dr. Ronald Howes is clinical psychologist who contracts with hospitals around the nation through [a] placement firm, Ap.Contractor.com.” App. at 11. In turn, AP-Contractor.com relies on another firm, Locumtenens,2 to provide “support and placement services” for the me...
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( 01-29-2025 - NM)

United States of America v. Stacy Underwood, David Wellington, Jerry Shrock
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Multi-Million Dollar Tax Evasion Scheme U.S. Attorney's Office Secures Final Sentencing of Trio Which Orchestrated a Multi-Million Dollar Tax Evasion Scheme ...
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( 01-24-2025 - NM)

United States of America v. Vicente Villela
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant in a revocation of supervised release proceeding. In 2023, Defendant-Appellant Vicente Villela was serving two concurrent terms of supervised release. He violated his conditions of supervision on four separate occasions. After the fourth violation, the district court revoked both of Mr. Villela’s super...
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( 12-23-2024 - NM)

Dr. William Gardner, D.D.S. v. Charles Schumacher, DDS, et al.
Albuquerque, New Mexico civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who claimed his due process rights were violated by the State of New Mexico. Dr. Gardner held a license to practice dentistry in the state of New Mexico. The defendants were members of the New Mexico Board of Dental Health Care (the Board). Delta Dental of Michigan, a provider of dental insurance, ...
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( 12-23-2024 - NM)

United States of America v. Kalani S. Uehara
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a felony. Ms. Uehara pleaded guilty on July 10, 2024. See Docs. 209-212. The Rule 11(c)(1)(C) plea agreement contained a specific sentence of “time-served” and “one day.” Doc. 211 at ¶ 13.a. It also contained a “waiver of appeal rights and post-conviction rights.” See id. at ¶¶ 28-31...
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( 12-20-2024 - NM)

United States of America v. Aris Fransis Rios-Flores
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal reentry of a removed alien. Aris Fransis Rios-Flores, was convicted of reentry of a removed alien, 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) & (b), upon a guilty plea and was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment. On appeal, Mr. Rios-Flores argues that the district court (1) procedural...
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( 12-10-2024 - NM)

United States of America v. Kirtie Cohoe
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Homicide ...
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( 12-06-2024 - NM)

State of New Mexico v. Marco Melo-Fernandez
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with leaving the scene of an accident. Defendant Marco Melo-Fernandez pleaded no contest to a charge of knowingly leaving the scene of an accident where the accident results in great bodily harm or death, contrary to NMSA 1978, Section 66-7-201(C) (1989). The district court sentenced Defendant to a six-...
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( 11-21-2024 - NM)

United States of America v. Santiago Martinez
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder in Indian Country. On November 12 and 13, 2021, Suazo and her boyfriend of 10 years, Martinez, both of whom were 29 years old, were at their residence in Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. After Suazo and Martinez went grocery shopping together the evening of the 12th, Suazo prepared dinner at ...
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( 11-19-2024 - NM)

State of New Mexico v. Fabian Gonzalez a/k/a Favian Elias Gonzalez
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with child abuse. Defendant Fabian Gonzales was convicted for reckless child abuse resulting in death of a child under age twelve, contrary to NMSA 1978, Section 30-6-1(F) (2009); as well his multiple counts of tampering with evidence (Counts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 8), contrary to NMSA 1978, Section 30-22-5 (...
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( 11-13-2024 - NM)

United States of America v. Brian Tony
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with voluntary manslaughter. Brian Tony was convicted of two counts of witness tampering and one count of voluntary manslaughter. Despite the presentence report’s recommendation that all three counts be grouped under subsections (b) and (c) of § 3D1.2, the district court declined...
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( 10-29-2024 - nm)

Charles Hartung v. Ronnie Gommert and McLane Compay, Inc.
Albuquerque, New Mexico auto negligence car wreck lawyer represented the Plaintiff. New Mexico's auto negligence laws are based on fault and comparative negligence, which means that multiple parties can be liable for an accident and compensation can be reduced based on fault: Fault-based The person or entity responsible for the accident is liab...
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( 10-18-2024 - NM)

United States of America v. Rumaldo Peshlakai
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Federal Firearms Violation After Domestic Violence Incident ...
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( 10-01-2024 - NM)

United States of America v. Leif Hayman
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Murder-for-Hire ...
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( 09-06-2024 - NM)

United States of America v. Eric Watson
Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Assault ...
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( 09-05-2024 - NM)

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