Pennsylvania Jury Verdicts, Settlements and Court Decisions
<H2> <center> United States of America v. Jeremy Pauley </h2> </center>
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen property (Human Remains). Jeremy Pauley, age 43, of Thompson, Pennsylvania, admitted to his role in a nationwide network of individuals who bought and sold human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School and an Arkansas mortuary. Pauley purchased human ... More...
$ (12-22-2025 - PA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Richard Adamsky </h2> </center>
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with count of receipt and attempted receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. Ricahrd Adamsky, age 55, of Adamsky, Pennsylvainak was indicted on September of 2025, for knowingly receiving a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct on or about June 1... More...
$ (12-22-2025 - PA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Maurice Smith </h2> </center>
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm. , 2025). 14 Moore, 111 F.4th at 272 (holding “that convicts may be disarmed while serving their sentences on [federal] supervised release”); Quailes, 126 F.4th 215, 217 (3d Cir. 2025) (extending Moore’s logic to “appl[y] with equal force to defendants who are on state... More...
$ (12-22-2025 - PA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Keenan Righter </h2> </center>
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with carjacking, carjacking, and using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. The Government alleged that on January 14, Righter, Jamar Miller, and a third associate drove to a Wawa parking lot in a white Chevrolet Malibu. Two of the men— donning masks and carrying guns—a... More...
$ (12-22-2025 - PA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Jamir M. Ceruit </h2> </center>
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of firearms in furtherance of drug drug trafficking. One month after he was released from prison and began a three-year term of supervised release, Ceruti was arrested for possessing narcotics. Later, Ceruti told his probation officer that he used narcotics on two separate occasions. The Gove... More...
$ (12-22-2025 - PA)<h2> <center> Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Janice Arlene-Lynn Vanderpool </h1> </center>
Sayre, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Janice Arlene-Lynn Vanderpool, 25, of Sayre, was accused for threatening her brother with a knife during an argument, according to an affidavit filed by Officer Nikki Hoffman. He is being held on $4 million bail.... More...
$ (12-15-2025 - PA)<h2> <center> Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Craig M. Dunn </h2> </center>
Milton, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with shooting at an apartment door in October. Craig M. Dunn, age 42, n was reportedly involved in a dispute with a neighbor at a nearby apartment shot at the neighbor's door.... More...
$ (12-15-2025 - PA)<H2> <center> Mekhi Johnson and Amber Garrity v. Williamsport Bureau of Police, et al. </h2> </center>
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiffs who sued on a civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983. The Plaintiffs claimed that Williamsport Police Office Benjamin Hitesman wrongully arrested Mekhi Johnson, concealing evidence proving that he was not guilty and keeping detained for nearly a month.... More...
$ (12-13-2025 - PA)<H2> <center> Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Michael Willie Marquis Woods </h2> </center>
Scranton, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder. "Michael Willie Marquis Woods, 38, and his victims lived on the sixth floor of the apartment building at 326 Biden St. Woods, machete in hand, stabbed a 61-year-old woman in the chest as she stepped off an elevator at about 6 p.m. She fell to the floor. He then attacked a 59-year-ol... More...
$ (12-13-2025 - PA)<h2> <center> Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Mark J. Anthony </h2> </center>
Erie, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with fraud. Mark J. Anthony, 39, was accused of taking money to do concrete work and never doing the work.... More...
$ (12-13-2025 - PA)<H2> <center> Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Javar Geter </h2> </center>
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. Javar Geter, 32, as the shooter in two incidents.... More...
$ (12-13-2025 - PA)<H2> <center> Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. James Bebout and Debbie Bebout </h2> </center>
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with with theft by unlawful taking, criminal conspiracy and abuse of a corpse. felony theft and criminal conspiracy as well as abuse of a corpse. The body of Michael Bebout, 64, was found in an advanced state of decomposition in the home he shared with James and Debbie Bebout.... More...
$ (12-13-2025 - PA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Saikeen Dixon </h2> </center>
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with armed carjacking of a FedEx truck in August of 2022. Saikeen Dixon, age 33, and co-defendant Ronald Byrd, 37, also of Philadelphia, were charged by superseding indictment in September 2023. In June of this year, both were convicted at trial of carjacking and using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm duri... More...
$ (12-13-2025 - PA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Donte Samuel Brown </h2> </center>
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of robbery interfering with interstate commerce (Hobbs Act robbery), one count of using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and one count of bank robbery. Donte Samuel Brown, age 45, robbed a Family Dollar store in Delaware County on August 15, 2024; robbed at... More...
$ (12-13-2025 - PA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Katrina Maclean </h2> </center>
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interstate transport of stolen human remains. From 2018 through 2022, Katrina Maclean, age 46, of Bradford, Massachusetts, bought human remains that she knew to have been stolen from Harvard Medical School and transported them from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania. Maclean also sold stolen human remains to... More...
$ (12-13-2025 - PA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Dommonick T. Chatman </h2> </center>
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of bank fraud in connection with numerous fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan applications that were filed, with his knowledge and approval, through his business, The Chatman Group, LLC. Dommonick T. Chatman, age 50, admitted that over the course of several months in 2021, he either ... More...
$ (12-13-2025 - PA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Nicholas T. Grimes </h2> </center>
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, riminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with theft of government property. Following the death of a Title II Social Security benefits recipient, Nicholas T. Grimes, 31, began stealing that person’s Social Security retirement benefits, beginning as early as 2014. Grimes stole benefits totaling approximately $216,779 by negotiating the benefits from th... More...
$ (12-13-2025 - PA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Jose Mejia-Sarmiento </h2> </center>
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal reentry of a removed alien, fraudulent use of a Social Security number, and aggravated identity theft, Jose Mejia-Sarmiento, 67.was found in the Western District of Pennsylvania after having been deported and removed from the United States three times prior between 1996 and 2016, including after a f... More...
$ (12-13-2025 - PA)<H2> <center> Estate of Devine v. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia </h2> </center>
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a medical malpractice wrongful death theory.<br> <br> On May 10, 2023, Appellees filed a wrongful death and survival action against Appellant, in connection with a biopsy that Gabriella underwent as part of her treatment for Acute Myelogenous Lukemia, which Appellees allege caused Gabriella's death. Appellees... More...
$0 (11-21-2025 - PA)<h2> <center> Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Dimitrius Bashir Campbell </h2> </center>
Allentown, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted homicide and conspiracy to do the same. <br> <br> On December 29, 2023, members of the Allentown Police Department were around the area of the Sportsmen's Bar for an investigation in an unrelated case when they heard shots fired. They pursued a fleeing individual, later identified as Appellant. Once of... More...
$0 (11-21-2025 - PA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Damon Todd Carey </h2> </center>
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substance (drugs).<br> <br> In 2023, Carey filed a petition for writ of error coram nobis. In that petition, Carey again argued that he was entitled to relief because the District Court lacked jurisdiction to convict him on Count II as he was a juvenile during dates listed i... More...
$0 (11-14-2025 - PA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Daniel Ray Lane and Zhenyu Wang, a/k/a Bill Wang </h2> </center>
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring and attempting to engage in and engaging in transactions regarding sanctioned Iranian oil, in violation of 50 U.S.C. §§ 1701-1707 (the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)) and 18 U.S.C. § 371, and for money laundering conspiracy, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1956(h). ... More...
$0 (11-20-2025 - PA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. David Dupree </h2> </center>
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant seeking compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i).<br> <br> In 2009, after a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Dupree was convicted of armed bank robbery, use of a firearm during a crime of violence, and conspiracy to commit robbery. The District Court... More...
$0 (11-19-2025 - PA)<H2> <center> United States of America .v Antonio Bishop </h2> </center>
Scranton, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempting to provide contraband of an inmate.<br> <br> Antonio Bishop was convicted of both attempting to provide contraband to a federal inmate and attempting to obtain contraband by a federal inmate. On appeal, he argues that the District Court committed reversible error by not granting a mistrial when the pr... More...
$0 (11-20-2025 - PA)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Fitzgerald Daliot-Rios </h2> </center>
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a member of drug-trafficking organization in Reading, Pennsylvania, that distributed methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and crack cocaine.<br> <br> ... More...
$0 (11-21-2025 - PA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Daniel Marsico </h2> </center>
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with cyberstalking in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2261A(2)(A).<br> <br> Around June 2020, the woman Daniel Marsico was dating broke up with him. For the next several years, he stalked and harassed her. He called her incessantly. He sent her—and later, her mother—thousands of text messages. When the woman l... More...
$0 (11-21-2025 - PA)<h2> <center> Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Indigo Michelle Hymes </h2> </center>
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with recklessly endangering another person.<br> <br> Indigo Michelle Hymes, age 28, was charged with recklessly endangering another person.... More...
$0 (11-21-2025 - PA)<h2> <center> Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Miriam Rivera </h2> </center>
Scranton, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with DUI.<br> <br> <center><br> <img with="300" src="https://lackawanna.crimewatchpa.com/sites/default/files/styles/api_xl/public/266505/offender-profile/2024/06/rivera_miriam.jpg?itok=pp64BR-K&c=322c17c39308ea81ddb1def940cebdc1"><br> </center>... More...
$0 (11-21-2025 - PA)<h2> <center> Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Isaiah Hall </h2> </center>
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with aggravated assault.<br> <br> On Saturday November 15th, at about 2:00am, the Harrisburg Police responded to the 200 block of North 2nd Street for a report of an assault. Upon the arrival of officers, they located an adult male and adult female assault victim. The male victim, who was unconscious at the scene, w... More...
$0 (11-22-2025 - PA)<h2> <center> Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Quader Moore </h2> </center>
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder and possession of a firearm.<br> <br> Quader Moore, age 20, was charged with murder for killing Tianna Wells in 2021. <br> <br> On the morning of Wednesday, June 16, 2021, Philadelphia police officers responded to a Missing Persons Report at a rooming house on the 2600 block of N. 17th St... More...
$0 (11-21-2025 - PA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. David Piaquadio </h2> </center>
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs.<br> <br> On July 25, 2019, after a nonjury trial, Judge Conner of the Middle District of Pennsylvania found Piaquadio guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute Oxycodone, fentanyl, and heroin in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 and three counts of possession with intent t... More...
$0 (11-21-2025 - PA)<h2> <center> Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Tesean Lamont Salter </h2> </center>
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with carrying a firearms without a license, driving without a license, and failure to use a safety belt.<br> <br> [On December 31, 2022, Officer Craig Sulkowski of the Pittsburgh Police Department arrived] at 1200 Stanmore Street due to a complaint that there were approximately 150 juveniles at an Airbnb. Officer... More...
$0 (11-12-2025 - PA)<h2> <center> Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Daemond Artemus </h2> </center>
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with homicide.<br> <br> Daemond Artemus was accused for two different homicide cases has now been charged with killing a ride share driver in early 2025.... More...
$0 (11-13-2025 - PA)<h2> <center> Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Yobranny Martinez-Fernandez and Hendrick Pena-Martinez </h2> </center>
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with first-degree murder.<br> <br> Yobranny Martinez-Fernandez and Hendrick Pena-Martinez were caught breaking into cars when they opened fire on Sgt. Richard Mendez and Officer Raul Ortiz. Mendez would later die from his injuries.... More...
$0 (11-13-2025 - PA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Lee Sokalsky </h2> </center>
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking modification or vacation of his sentence.<br> <br> To claim ineffective assistance of counsel, Sokalsky must satisfy the two-prong test set forth by the Supreme Court in Strickland v. Washington.2 First, Sokalsky must “show that [the] counsel’s performance was deficient[,]†and second, “tha... More...
$0 (11-13-2025 - PA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Taire Hardeman </h2> </center>
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with violating conditions of supervised release.<br> <br> Hardeman pled guilty to drug offenses and was sentenced to 36 months’ imprisonment followed by three years’ supervised release. Approximately eleven months after his supervised release commenced, law enforcement responded to reported gunfire an... More...
$0 (11-12-2025 - PA)</h2> </center> Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Javar Geter </h2> </center>
Harrisberg, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer will represented the Defendant charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.<br> <br> Javar Geter, age 32, was accused for two shootings in Harrisburg on Monday evening are connected, according to Harrisburg police.... More...
$0 (11-13-2025 - PA)<h2> <center> Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Taven Jaquin Glasgow </h2> </center>
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant seeking review of the revocation of hsi probation.<br> <br> In or around 2010, Glasgow sexually abused his two minor half-brothers. The victims reported the abuse in 2012. The Commonwealth charged Glasgow with two counts each of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, unlawful contact or communication with a minor, incest,... More...
$0 (11-03-2025 - PA)<h2> <center> Rocky L. Freeman v. Unit Manager J. Lincalis, et al. </h2> </center>
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a Federal Tort Claims Act claim.<br> <br> Rocky Freeman was tried for two murders but was acquitted of one. His presentence report mistakenly stated that he had committed both murders. A judge ordered that the mistake be corrected. It was not. Eighteen years later, Freeman learned of this error. He sued, alleging that he... More...
$0 (11-03-2025 - PA)<h2> <center> Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Ki-Shawn Crumity </h2> </center>
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer will be representing the Defendant charged with sex trafficking, sexual assault and corruption of a minor. <br> <br> Ki-Shawn Crumity, age 26, is accused for taking in a 13-year-old girl and hiding her in a box in his basement for days.... More...
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