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United States of America v. Jeffrey Alan Voss

Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Posting Violent Threats on Facebook

Eugene Man Sentenced to 5 Years' Probation for Posting Violent Threats on Facebook



A Eugene man was sentenced to federa... More...
   $0 (04-10-2025 - OR)

United States of America v. Negasi Zuberi

Medford, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Kidnapping and Sexually Assaulting Two Women and Holding One in a Cell

Klamath Falls Man Sentenced to Life in Federal Prison for Kidnapping and Sexually Assaulting Two Women and Holding One in a Cell

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   $0 (01-17-2025 - OR)

Andrew Charles Nisbet v. Spirit Rose Bridger

Portland, Oregon family law lawyers represented the parties in a child custody dispute involving r the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

Nisbet and Bridger met in 2012 in New York City when they were both on vacation.[4] Nisbet, a British citizen, lived and worked in Scotland as a radiologist. Bridger, a United States citizen, lived in Oregon an... More...
   $0 (12-20-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Seth Lee Fabry

Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Traveling to Oregon to Sexually Abuse a Minor He Met Online

Washington State Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Traveling to Oregon to Sexually Abuse a Minor He Met Online

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   $0 (12-10-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Andrew Rogers

Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Illegally Possessing and Manufacturing Semi-Automatic Rifles and Silencers

Springfield Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Illegally Possessing and Manufacturing Semi-Automatic Rifles and Silencers

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   $0 (12-11-2024 - OR)

In the Matter of A.S. Department of Human Services v. D.F.


Bend, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant in a dependency action over Mother's child.




The juvenile court entered a judgment of jurisdiction and disposition, asserting dependency jurisdiction over mother's child. On appeal, in her sole assignment of error, mother challenges a court order included in the judgment, ordering mother to "comply with... More...
   $0 (11-20-2024 - OR)

In the Matter of the Mariage of Jason James Gist and Jodie Anne Gist


Grants Pass, Oregon family law lawyers represented the parties in a divorce.



In this domestic relations proceeding, father appeals from a judgment awarding mother sole legal custody of their two minor children arising out of his motion to modify a previous custody judgment. Advancing seven assignments of error, father argues the trial court erred by (1) isolating one fa... More...
   $0 (11-20-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Willard Verdell Cowan

Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Sexually Exploiting a Minor

Coos Bay Man Sentenced to 25 Years in Federal Prison for Sexually Exploiting a Minor



A Coos Bay, Oregon man was sentenced to ... More...
   $0 (11-19-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Willard Verdell Cowan

Portland, OR criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Sexually Exploiting a Minor

Coos Bay Man Sentenced to 25 Years in Federal Prison for Sexually Exploiting a Minor



A Coos Bay, Oregon man was sentenced to feder... More...
   $0 (11-13-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Clay Thomas Wolfe

Columbus, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with soliciting pornography

Perry County man sentenced to 23 years in prison for soliciting pornography from hundreds of minors while pretending to be teen girl on Snapchat

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   $0 (10-31-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Negasi Zuberi, a/k/a Justin Joshua Hyche


Medford, Oregon kidnapping and sexual assault charge criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant.


Negasi Zuberi, 30, also known as Justin Joshua Hyche, was found guilty of kidnapping, transporting a victim for criminal sexual activity, and illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon.

On July 15, 2023, while in Seattle, Zuberi posed as a ... More...
   $0 (10-20-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Reuben Phillip Harvey

Medford, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Attempted Online Enticement of a Minor

Eastern Oregon Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Attempted Online Enticement of a Minor



In March 2023, Reuben Phil... More...
   $0 (09-19-2024 - OR)

Department of Human Services v. E.O. and B.L.


Gold Beach, Oregon family law lawyer represented the Defendant.



Father and mother appeal from a juvenile court judgment taking jurisdiction over their four children, N, C, J, and JA. The juvenile court found the children to be within its jurisdiction because (1) mother had engaged in physical abuse or inappropriate discipline causing a safety threat; (2) while in mother... More...
   $0 (09-19-2024 - OR)

State of Oregon v. C.M.


Oregon City, Oregon civil rights lawyer represented the Defendant.




In this civil commitment case, appellant seeks reversal of the trial court's judgment committing her to the custody of the Oregon Health Authority for a period not to exceed 180 days based on a finding that she suffered from a mental disorder that made her a danger to others. ORS 426.130; ORS 426.00... More...
   $0 (09-11-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Nathan Ezell Bowie

Portland, Oregon Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Sexual Enticement of a Minor

Former Community College Coach Sentenced to Federal Prison for Sexual Enticement of a Minor



A Portland man w... More...
   $0 (09-04-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Roger Clint Lee Vanwormer

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Child

Central Oregon Repeat Offender Sentenced to Federal Prison for Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Child



While ... More...
   $0 (07-26-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Mark Villanueva


Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Negotiated Guns-for-Drugs

Lane County Man Who Negotiated Guns-for-Drugs Trade Sentenced to Federal Prison



A Lane County, Oregon man who negotiated the ... More...
   $0 (07-21-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Mark Villanueva

Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Negotiating Guns-for-Drugs

Lane County Man Who Negotiated Guns-for-Drugs Trade Sentenced to Federal Prison



In August 2020, special agents from the Bureau of ... More...
   $0 (07-17-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Jeremy Lee Peterson

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Sexually Exploiting a Child

Oklahoma Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Sexually Exploiting a Child



An Oklahoma City man was sentenced to federal prison ... More...
   $0 (07-12-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Albert Wayne Johnson

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Sexually Abusing Two Minors He Met Online


Eastern Oregon Man Sentenced to More Than 12 Years in Federal Prison for Sexually Abusing Two Minors He Met Online

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   $0 (05-18-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Albert Wayne Johnson

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Sexually Abusing Two Minors


Eastern Oregon Man Sentenced to More Than 12 Years in Federal Prison for Sexually Abusing Two Minors He Met Online



A La Grande, Oregon man was sentenced... More...
   $0 (05-16-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. William Thomas Gillespie

Medford, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Illegally Possessing Firearms and Narcotics


Cave Junction Man Sentenced to More than 14 Years Federal Prison for Illegally Possessing Firearms and Narcotics



A Cave Junction, Oregon m... More...
   $0 (04-26-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. William Thomas Gillespie

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Illegally Possessing Firearms and Narcotics .

Cave Junction Man Sentenced to More than 14 Years Federal Prison for Illegally Possessing Firearms and Narcotics



A Cave Junction, Oregon man... More...
   $0 (04-26-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Rolando Daniel Benitez

Portland, Oregon Criminal Defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Sexually Abusing Multiple Children.




A former Portland resident was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for sexually abusing multiple children, videorecording and photographing th... More...
   $0 (02-20-2024 - OR)

State of Oregon v. Christina Gale Dixon

Oregon City, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with custodial interference and criminal mistreatment for refusing doctor’s orders and interfering with her care.

Christina Dixon, age 39, tried to treat her daughter's liver cancer with CBD oil.

Doctors wanted to remove the cancerous tumor. Instead, prosecutors claim Dixon ignored a state order to b... More...
   $0 (02-27-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Erocl Gacjijo Wanjiku

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Assaulting Federal Immigration Officers.



ERICK GACHUHI WANJIKU, 42, of Kenya, was sentenced to serve 36 months in federal prison for assaulting federal officers, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.

A feder... More...
   $0 (01-18-2024 - OR)

United States of America v. Kevin Neal Strampher, Jr.

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with stealing tools from Warm Springs Composite Products, a wood products manufacturing business owned by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.

On January 28, 2023, Kevin Neal Strampher, Jr., 40, entered the Warm Springs Composite Products mill and stole more than $2,000 in power and hand tools. Using surveilla... More...
   $0 (12-07-2023 - OR)

United States of America v. Tony Daniel Klein

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with depriving another of right by sexual assault,in violation of 18 U.S.C. 242 and false declaration before a court in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1623(a).

Tony Daniel Klein, 38, of Clackamas County, Oregon, sexually assaulted nine female inmates while serving as a nurse at the Coffee Creek Correctional Family, Oregon'... More...
   $0 (10-18-2023 - OR)

L.O.K. v. Greater Albany Public School District 8J, et al.

Eugene, Oregon civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on civil rights violation theories.

Plaintiff L.O.K. is a twelve-year-old child who is intersex and non-binary. L.O.K. Decl. ¶ 1. ECF No. 34. Plaintiff uses they/them pronouns. L.O.K. Decl. ¶ 1. Plaintiff was a student at Oak Grove Elementary School (“Oak Grove”) beginning in 2015, which was their ... More...
   $275000 (09-27-2023 - OR)

United States of America v. Tony Daniel Klein

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sexually assaulting nine female inmates while serving as a nurse at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Oregon’s only women’s prison.

Tony Daniel Klein, 38, of Clackamas County, was indicted on 17 counts of depriving his victims of their constitutional right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punish... More...
   $0 (07-25-2023 - OR)

United States of America v. Oscar Manuel Rosas Gaona

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer representing defendant charged with drug trafficking.

In April 2023, special agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arranged to purchase 10,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl for 70 cents per pill. On April 14, 2023, the agents, working in partnership with the Clackamas County Interagency Task Force (CCITF), completed t... More...
   $0 (05-08-2023 - OR)

United States of America v. Andrew Thomas Tager

Eugene, Oregon criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with Sexually Exploiting Child Online.

In May 2018, Andrew Thomas when Tager was 28 years old, he posed as a female employee of Musical.ly and began communicating with a then-10-year-old Oregon child. He encouraged the child to participate in a fictional “crown program” wherein the child could earn a “crown” by sendi... More...
   $0 (09-19-2022 - OR)

United States of America v. Johnl Jackson

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged for transporting two teen girls across state lines, drugging and sexually abusing them, and selling them to other men for sex.

In 2016, John L. Jackson, age 34, met and befriended Keonte Desmond Scott, 23, also of Vancouver, after Scott’s release from prison. Jackson sold Scott cocaine and eventually began coaching h... More...
   $0 (07-25-2022 - OR)

United States of America v. Katie Jo Thompson

Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with theft of government funds.

Katie Jo Thompson, age 31, cared for her disabled child while also operating a licensed childcare business out of her Roseburg residence. Thompson applied for various federal benefit programs administered by the Special Security Administration (SSA) on her child’s behalf. In these applic... More...
   $0 (07-28-2022 - OR)

United States of America v. Zongtao Chen a/k/a Mark Chen

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with international sex trafficking organization operating dozens of illegal Asian brothels in the United States, Canada and Australia.

Zongtao Chen aka Mark Chen, 49, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, led a criminal enterprise that recruited women, primarily from China, to travel to the United States and elsewhere to engage... More...
   $0 (06-09-2022 - OR)

United States of America v. Nickolas K. Parsons

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with transporting and possessing thousands of images depicting child sexual abuse.

Nickolas K. Parsons, 27, was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison and 10 years’ supervised release.

In late 2019, as part of an ongoing investigation, officers identified a Twitter user who sent two MEGA links to child por... More...
   $0 (06-07-2022 - OR)

State of Oregon v. Rusty Allen Pugh

Bend, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with 17 felony counts including first-degree rape and sexual abuse, for the molestation of three young children.

Those charges were
the result of a Bend Police Department investigation into Mr. Pugh’s sexual abuse of three children who
were five to twelve years old at the time of the crimes, from 2001 – 2008.<... More...
   $0 (02-21-2022 - OR)

United States of America v. Jeremy Clawson

Portland, OR: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with fraudulently converting to his own personal use federal money intended to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jeremy Clawson, 32, was charged with theft of public money in violation of 18 U.S.C. 641.

“Recent federal relief programs, like those authorized by the CARES Act, were designed to ... More...
   $0 (09-16-2021 - OR)

United States of America v. Jacob Michael Gaines

Portland, OR: Assault and battery criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Jacob Michael Gaines, age 24, who assaulted a Deputy U.S. Marshal with a construction hammer in Downtown Portland.

“We are very fortunate Mr. Gaines did not severely injure or kill the Deputy U.S. Marshal who confronted him outside the federal courthouse last summer. Assaulting a federal officer with a dead... More...
   $0 (09-09-2021 - OR)

United States of America v. William Hamann

Eugene, Oregon sexually abusing a minor female charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, William Hamann, 38, a former Eugene elementary school teacher who was charge with sexually abusing a minor female.

On several occasions beginning in 2018 and continuing until July 2019, Hamann paid a minor female for oral sex and recorded the minor performing the sex acts. The minor femal... More...
   $0 (03-04-2021 - OR)

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