McMinnville, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted first-degree rape, felony strangulation constituting domestic violence, coercion, menacing constituting domestic violence, and harassment.


See State v. Peltier, 318 Or.App. 267, 273, 508 P.3d 567, rev den, 370 Or. 197 (2022) (a defendant has a right to be present at trial and may wa... More...    $0 (11-27-2024 - OR)

Vale, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with
unlawful use of a weapon (UUW) constituting domestic violence, ORS 166.220; and assault in the fourth degree constituting domestic violence, ORS 163.160. The trial court sentenced defendant to five years in prison pursuant to ORS 161.610, and to a concurrent term of 90 days in jail for the assault conviction.... More...    $0 (11-27-2024 - OR)

Tigard Repeat Offender Sentenced to Federal Prison for Transporting a Victim Across State Lines for Illegal Sexual Activity and Launderi... More...    $0 (05-07-2024 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to interfere with commerce by threats or violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951, 18 U.S.C. 371, and 18 U.S.C. 372.... More...    $0 (09-28-2023 - OR)

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 Groveâ€�) beginning in 2015, which was their ... More...    $275000 (09-27-2023 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.

According to court documents, as part of an ongoing federal racketeering investigation of the Hoover Criminal Gang, law enforcement obtained photos online of Brown, a convicted felon, posing with other known Hoover members.

On the evening spanning May 21 and 22, 2022, ... More...    $0 (09-11-2023 - OR)

Medford, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with boobytrapping of a home that injured an FBI bomb technician.

On September 7, 2018, bomb technicians from Oregon State Police (OSP) and the FBI went to a property in Williams formerly owned by Gregory Lee Rodvelt, 71, a former resident of Williams, Oregon, that he had lost in lawsuit. After Rodvelt learned that a re... More...    $0 (06-06-2023 - 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)

Medford, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with armed kidnapping of three adult victims, including a former dating partner, and illegally possessing a stolen firearm as a convicted felon.

George Gene Rose, 45, was sentenced to 300 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release.

“Mr. Rose’s callous and terrifying kidnapping of his form... More...    $0 (05-19-2022 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with robbing a local public house at gunpoint and making off with five cartons of cigarettes.

Dustin Lee Henderson, 40, was found guilty of interfering with commerce with threats or violence; possessing a firearm in furtherance of, and using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to, a crime of violence; and il... More...    $0 (04-28-2022 - Or)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with unlawful possession of a destructive device.

Malik Fard Muhammad, age 25, traveled to Portland with his girlfriend from their home in Indianapolis to violently engage in area riots. On September 5, 2020, during a large civil disturbance in east Portland, demonstrators threw dangerous objects at police, including c... More...    $0 (03-28-2022 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with second-degree assault, fourth-degree assult and unlawful use of a weapon with a firearm.

Craig Alan Swinney, age 51, engaged in various acts of violence including shooting a man in the face with a paintball gun, discharging bear mace on multiple occasions and aiming at .357 magnum handgun at a crowd.


... More...    $0 (12-10-2021 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with felony possession of a semi-automatic pistol and distributing methamphetamine.

Royce Francis Speedis, 34, was sentenced to 77 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release.

In early March 2019, Royce Francis Speedis, age 34 and co-defendant Lavella Ruth Thompson, 28, also of Pendleton,... More...    $0 (12-01-2021 - OR)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to traffic drugs.

Aumontae Wayne Smith, 22, was Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute Fentanyl; Possession with Intent to Distribute Fentanyl; Possession of Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime; and Possession of Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime... More...    $0 (08-09-2021 - OR)

Portland, Oregon hate crime charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant.

Nolan Levi Strauss, 27, was charged with attempting to kill an African-American because he was an African-American.

On the morning of Dec. 21, 2019, a man walked into an Arby’s restaurant and adjoining Pilot Travel Center in Ontario where he planned to provide documentation for a pending job appli... More...    $0 (06-17-2021 - OR)

Portland, OR - The United States of America charged Jared Elias Case with domestic assault and battery.

Jared Elias Case, 26, of Umatilla, Oregon, was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release after repeatedly assaulting his significant other.

According to court documents, on July 19, 2018, Case punched his then-significant other in the face, br... More...    $0 (11-19-2019 - OR)

Porland, OR - Warm Springs Woman Pleads Guilty to Assault with Intent to Commit Murder of Two Family Members

Rhyan Leigh Smith, 26, of Warm Springs, Oregon, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to two counts of assault with the intent to commit murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 113(a) and 1153, and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence in violation ... More...    $0 (02-10-2018 - OR)

Brenda M. Diedrich appeals the district court’s order affirming the Commissioner of Social Security’s (the “Commissioner”) denial of Diedrich’s application for Social Security Disability Insurance (“SSDI”) benefits under Title II of the Social Security Act. The Commissioner determined that Diedrich had become disabled, but an Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) found that her disability did not begin... More...    $0 (10-27-2017 - OR)

Respondent appeals from the trial court’s entry
of a stalking protective order (SPO). He contends that the
court erred in issuing the SPO, because the contacts upon
which the SPO was based were expressive and none “can be
deemed to be an unequivocal threat of imminent physical
harm.” We agree that the court erred in issuing the SPO
and, therefore, reverse.
Under ORS 30.... More...    $0 (02-01-2017 - OR)

In this post-conviction relief case, the state1 appeals
from a judgment granting petitioner relief on a number of
his claims, and remanding the case for a new trial. The state
assigns error to the post-conviction court’s rulings on those
claims, arguing that petitioner failed to establish, as a matter
of law, that he was entitled to relief on any of them. We
conclude that t... More...    $0 (02-23-2017 - OR)

Oregon requires that foreign corporations doing
business in this state appoint a registered agent to receive
service of process. ORS 60.731(1).1 The primary question
that this case presents is whether, by appointing a registered
agent in Oregon, defendant (a foreign corporation)
impliedly consented to general jurisdiction here—that is,
whether defendant consented to have Or... More...    $0 (03-02-2017 - OR)

The primary question in this case is whether the
Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits
Oregon to exercise general jurisdiction over an interstate
railroad for claims unrelated to the railroad’s activities in
this state. The trial court ruled that it could exercise general
jurisdiction over the railroad and denied the railroad’s
motion to dismiss plaintiff’s... More...    $0 (03-02-2017 - OR)

Portland, OR - Defendant Linked to Murder of Seaside Police Sergeant Sentenced to 12 Years in Federal Prison

Jamie Lee Jones, 45, a former resident of Nevada, was sentenced to twelve years in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Michael H. Simon. Jones had previously pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of... More...    $0 (04-02-2017 - OR)

Eugene, OR - Woman Pleads Guilty in Murder-for-Hire of Ex-Husband

Property Dispute and $150,000 Life Insurance Policy Provided Motivation for Crime

Pamela Jean Gygi, 58, of Westlake, Oregon, pleaded guilty to the use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of a murder for hire and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence before U.S. District Court... More...    $0 (01-23-2017 - OR)

Eugene, OR - Child Sex Trafficker Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison

U.S. District Judge Michael J. McShane sentenced Darryl Tyrone Norwood Jr., 29, of Lane County, Oregon, to 160 months in prison for sex trafficking of a minor. Following his prison sentence, Norwood will be on lifetime supervised release.

In February of 2014, the FBI and the Eugene Police Department (EPD) were inve... More...    $0 (11-26-2016 - OR)

Medford, OR - Klamath Falls Man Sentenced for Threatening Vietnamese Neighbors and Interfering with their Right to Live in Home

John Blayne Vangastel, 37, of Klamath Falls, was sentenced to five years of probation following his guilty plea to one count of using force or threat of force to intimidate and interfere with the housing rights of his neighbors because of their Vietnamese descent... More...    $0 (10-16-2016 - OR)