Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder.

Appellant's first-degree felony murder charge was predicated on alternative factual theories. The State alleged the murder occurred either while Appellant was in the commission of robbery with a dangerous weapon or while in the commission of distribution of a controlled dangerous ... More...    $0 (02-05-2024 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.

Daniel Matthew Kittson, 61, was convicted of one count of illegally transferring a machine gun.

In December 2019, a special agent from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) learned that an individual, later identified as Kittson, possesse... More...    $0 (08-25-2023 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit fraud.

Robert J. Jesenik, 63, former chief executive officer of Aequitas and resident of Lake Oswego, Oregon; Andrew N. MacRitchie, 59, formerly of Palm Harbor, Florida; and Brian K. Rice, 56, of Portland were found guilty of conspiring with one another to commit mail and wire fraud and 28 ind... More...    $0 (05-17-2023 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with tax evasion.

James Millegan, age 65, owned and operated J.W. Millegan, Inc., a small, commission-based investment advisory business that served clients in the Portland and Salem, Oregon metropolitan areas. From 1996 to 2016, the investment firm was Millegan’s only significant source of income.

Over a seven-... More...    $0 (11-14-2022 - OR)

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)

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

John Armas, age 44, of Hillsboro operated a methamphetamine distribution cell as part of a larger drug trafficking network led by Victor Alvarez Farfan, 50, of Oregon City, Oregon. Armas would receive pounds of methamphetamine at his residence from Farfan or associates of Farfan and, in turn, tra... More...    $0 (05-26-2022 - OR)

Eugene, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire fraud.

Thomas Gerard Mautone, 43, formerly of Newark, New Jersey, was one of five individuals who together perpetrated a monthslong scheme to convince an elderly man to invest $1 million in a fraudulent high-yield international investment scheme. In July 2015, one of Mautone’s co-defendants, Jared Mack, 46, ... More...    $0 (05-13-2022 - OR)

Eugene Oregon, criminal defense attorney represented Andrew Aaron Lloyd charged with
fraud by submitting false CARES Act loan applications.

Andrew Aaron Lloyd, 51, of Lebanon, Oregon, was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release. Lloyd was also ordered to pay more than $4 million in restitution and forfeit 25 properties and more than 15,000 shares... More...    $0 (01-06-2022 - OR)

Eugene, Oregon criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

Steven Dwayne Lander, 60, was charged with possession with intent to distribute drugs in and around Douglas County, Oregon.

According to court documents, over the course of several months, the Douglas County Interagency Narcotics Team (DINT) and the U... More...    $0 (12-10-2021 - OR)

In the fall of 2007, Defendant and his associate, Lloyd Sharp, met with a group of investors from the Portland, Oregon, area to discuss the possibility of investing in a biofuel operation in Ghana.2 Defendant and Sharp had known each other for a long time, but they had reconnected and entered into a joint venture agreement only recently. The joint venture agreement provided that Defendant and Sh... More...    $0 (07-27-2018 - OR)

Portland, OR - Oregon Man Sentenced to 70 Months in Federal Prison for Detonating Explosive Device in Fred Meyer Store

Monte Robin Kaija, Jr., 47, of Portland, was sentenced on July 16, 2018 to 70 months in federal prison for detonating a small explosive device at a Fred Meyer store in Southeast Portland, and later possessing a homemade metal pipe bomb.

According to court documen... More...    $0 (07-19-2018 - OR)

Portland, OR - Dyno-Nobel, Inc. Ordered to Pay $250,000 for Failing to Notify Federal Authorities of Anhydrous Ammonia Discharges

U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon ordered Dyno Nobel, Inc., the owner of a urea plant near St. Helens, Oregon, to pay $250,000 for violating section 103(b) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), following a ser... More...    $0 (06-09-2018 - OR)

Eugene, OR - Jennifer Wheeler sued Safeway, Inc. on a personal injury negligence theory.

The Complaint filed by Ms. Wheeler stated in part:

For Plaintiff Jenna Wheeler’s claims for relief against Defendant Safeway, Inc., Plaintiff states:
Parties
1.

Defendant Safeway, Inc., is a foreign corporation incorporated in Delaware and with its princi... More...    $0 (05-09-2018 - OR)

Portland, OR - Final Defendant Sentenced in Nayarit, Mexico-Based Heroin Trafficking Conspiracy

Misraim Israel Briones Pasos aka Mario Ozuna, 36, of Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico, was sentenced today to 151 months in prison for his role in a vast conspiracy responsible for trafficking hundreds of pounds of black tar heroin from Nayarit, Mexico to the Portland metropolitan area.

“Most of... More...    $0 (03-29-2018 - OR)

Plaintiff is a licensed electrician who previously
worked for defendant, Nike, Inc., in its maintenance department.
Defendant fired plaintiff after he used one of defendant’s
on-site basketball courts at a prohibited time. In
response, plaintiff sued defendant for, among other things,
statutory safety complaint and whistleblower retaliation.
Plaintiff alleged that defendant... More...    $0 (01-31-2018 - OR)

This review proceeding arises out of a post-judgment
order charging a judgment debtor’s interests in four limited
partnerships and a limited liability company to satisfy the
judgment creditor’s judgment against him. The charging
order was issued over the limited partnerships’ and limited
liability company’s objections that ancillary provisions
included in the charging order... More...    $0 (01-11-2018 - OR)

Portland, Oregon - Civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on civil rights violation theory.

The issue in this case is whether police unlawfully interrogated a criminal defendant after he invoked his rights to counsel and against compelled self-incrimination, guaranteed by Article I, section 12, of the Oregon Constitution and the Fifth Amendment to the United States ... More...    $0 (09-22-2017 - OR)

Portland, OR - Gresham Man Sentenced to 96 Months in Federal Prison for Illegal Firearm Possession

United States District Court Judge Marco A. Hernandez sentenced Nicolas Allen Harms, 26, of Gresham, to 96 months in federal prison followed by 3 years of supervised release. Harms had previously pleaded guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C... More...    $0 (09-09-2017 - OR)

This appeal is from a civil forfeiture of $11,500 under
21 U.S.C. § 881(a)(6). The claimant and his wife are heroin
addicts, who have been buying and selling drugs for most of
their lives. When the claimant, through a friend, tried to post
the $11,500 as bail for his wife, the government seized the
cash. At trial, the government had two theories: first, that the
money was p... More...    $0 (09-06-2017 - OR)

The issue in this land use case is whether the Land
Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) properly deferred to Lane
County’s interpretation of the meaning of “accessory” use
and development as used in the county’s forestland zoning
regulation. Under ORS 197.829(1), LUBA must affirm
a county’s interpretation of its land use regulations unless
that interpretation is inconsistent with t... More...    $0 (06-01-2017 - OR)

Defendant Mark Nooth, superintendent of the
Snake River Correctional Institution (the state), appeals a
post-conviction court judgment concluding that petitioner’s
trial attorney provided inadequate representation during
his criminal trial for sexual abuse in the first degree, ORS
163.427, and granting petitioner post-conviction relief. The
state argues that key evidence of... More...    $0 (02-23-2017 - OR)

The Driver and Motor Vehicle Services Division
(DMV) appeals from a judgment that set aside an administrative
order that suspended petitioner’s driver’s license for
a year. The circuit court ruled that an administrative law
judge (ALJ) had improperly excluded evidence of a urinalysis
of a sample that petitioner gave the morning after her
arrest for driving under the influen... More...    $0 (02-23-2017 - OR)