Texas Domestic Abuse Law
<h2> <center> State of Texas v. Anthony Clay Johnson </h2> <center>
Amarillo, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child. Digested by: <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Anthony Clay Johnson II was charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child. The victim was his cousin. The abus... More...
$ (02-09-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Magnolia Diagnostics, John Baines, and Kelly Bains </h2> </center>
Dallas, Texas, qui tam lawyers represented the United States of America on a False Claims Act violation theory. Digested by: <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Magnolia Diagnostics, a clinical laboratory based in Dallas, Texas, and its owners, John Bains and Kelly Bains, billed Medicare for medically unneces... More...
$19200000 (07-24-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Tonya Crowder, et al. </h2> </center>
Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with: Conspiracy to Unlawfully Distribute and Dispense Controlled Substances Unlawfully Distributing and Dispensing Controlled Substances and Aiding and Abetting Tonya Crowder, 49, Missouri City; Marlene Durham, 55, Humble; and Demetrius Onuaguluchi, 34, Houston; with distribution of a controlled substance and con... More...
$ (06-24-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Benjamin Hanil Song, et al. </h2> </center>
Fort Worth, Texas criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with attempted murder of a law enforcement officer in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 210, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2339A , 18 U.S.C. § 844(m) (18 U.S.C. §§ 844(h)(1) & (2)), 18 U.S.C. §§ 844(h)(1) and (2)18 U.S.C. §§ 1114(a)(3) and 2, 18 U.S.C. §§ 924(c)(1)(A)(iii) and 2. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/ven... More...
$ (06-24-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> Robert P. Oristaglio, Jr. ex rel. United States of America v. Community Care Health Network LLC, doing business as Matrix Medical Network (Matrix), DPN USA, doing business as HealthFair (HealthFair), and Shahriah “James” Ekbatani </h2> </center>
Beaumont, Texas, civil litigation lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a qui tam action claiming that the Defendants violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by causing the submission of false or invalid diagnosis codes to the Medicare Advantage program. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> The United` ... More...
$ (06-05-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> State of Texas v. Bernardo Gomez </h2> </center>
El Paso, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual abuse of a child. By Kent Morlan Bernardo Gomez accused of sexually abusing a minor. In March 2020, a victim, who was 11 at the time, told their mother that Gomez had sexually abused them over multiple years, from when the victim was in kindergarten and continuing through fifth grade.... More...
$ (05-06-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> Sharif Ahmad Jasmine v. The State of Texas </h2> </center>
McKinney, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual abuse of a child. The was charged with the continuous sexual abuse of a child, J.W. J.W.’s mother Kirsten met appellant in 2015 when she and J.W. lived in Missouri. Kirsten and appellant started dating and eventually had a son together. In 2019, –2– when J.W. was twelve years’ old, Kirsten and her... More...
$ (04-05-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Camilo Reyes Castillo </h2> </center>
Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with production of child pornography. Camilo Reyes Castillo, 47, was producing and trading child sexual abuse material online. DPS investigated Castillo and his online presence and confirmed that he was involved in producing and sharing sexually explicit material involving young boys. In June 2025, DPS executed a search ... More...
$ (04-05-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Benjamin Hanil Song, Savanna Batten, Zachary Evetts, Autumn Hill, Meagan Morris, Maricela Rueda, and Daniel Sanchez-Estrada </h2> </center>
Fort Worth, Texas, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with rioting, providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to use and carry an explosive, attempted murder of a officers and employees of the United States, and discharging a firedarm in relation to the furtherance of a violent crime. Benjamin Hanil Song, Savanna Batten, Zachary Evetts, Autumn Hill, Meagan Mo... More...
$ (03-14-2026 - TX)State of Texas v. Andrew Wayne Roark
Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the charged with child abuse. Andrew Wayne Roark, 48, for his 2000 injury to a child conviction after an extensive and careful re-evaluation of the evidence by the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office’s Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU). Changes in science regarding the mechanism of the injury, which the Court of Criminal Appeals opined w... More...
$ (11-18-2025 - TX)United States of America v. Ivan Hernandez-Ortiz
Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegaly reentry. Ivan Hernandez-Ortiz, 36, residing in Dallas, Texas, illegally entered the United States approximately five times, was granted voluntary return on three occasions, and was formally removed twice. Previously, he was federally prosecuted for illegal reentry into the United States in the Southern Distr... More...
$ (02-25-2026 - TX)United States of America v. Isaiah Rene Acosta
El Paso, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of drugs causing death or serious bodily injury. On July 16, 2021, Isaiah Rene Acosta, 28, sold three counterfeit M-30 pills containing fentanyl to an individual, who purchased the pills on behalf of herself and another person. The pill recipients used the counterfeit M-30 pills the next day and shortly ... More...
$ (02-15-2026 - TX)<H2> United States of America v. Luis Robert Velazquez,
Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a Schedule II controlled drug. Luis Robert Velazquez, 39, of Cockrell Hill, Texas, pled guilty in July 2025, to a drug conspiracy in which he admitted to trafficking narcotics for Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG). According to plea documents, in the span of l... More...
$ (01-15-2026 - TX)<H2> United States of America v. Ashley Nicole Ponce
Lufkin, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance -methamphetamine. On October 30, 2024, law enforcement responded to a domestic disturbance call involving a man and a woman at a Corrigan convenience store. As a result, a traffic stop was conducted on a vehicle linked to the disturbance, and a search of the... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - TX)<H2> United States of America v. Hernando Manuel De La Cruz Rivera Orjuela, also known as Hernan, also known as Manuel, also known as El Patron, and Luis Enrique Linero Pinto, aka El Calvo
El Paso, Texas criminal defense lawyer represent the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit human smuggling. In October 2024, a federal grand jury in the Western District of Texas returned an indictment against Hernando Manuel De La Cruz Rivera Orjuela, also known as Hernan, also known as Manuel, also known as El Patron, 53, and Luis Enrique Linero Pinto, aka El Calvo, 41, of Colombia for... More...
$ (12-24-2025 - TX)<H2> United States of America v. Brice Andrew Flickinger
Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with coercion and enticement of a minor. On July 9, 2021, the victim’s mother reported her daughter missing. Shortly thereafter, authorities conducted a traffic stop after observing a vehicle with two men, including Brice Flickinger Flickinger as passenger, drop the minor victim off near her home. A search resulted in t... More...
$ (12-15-2025 - TX)<H2> United States of America v. Victor Torres
Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of production of child pornography. In 2023, Victor Torres paid two different 13-to-14-year-old children to produce sexually explicit material to send to him online. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) discovered Torres’s criminal activity when they received a CyberTip from an online money exchange pl... More...
$ (12-15-2025 - TX)<H2> United States of America v. Skyler Shoemaker
Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography. Skyler Shoemaker, age 34, of Colorado City, Texas, used Facebook Messenger to send a sexually explicit video of a four- to six-year-old child to his girlfriend, Angel Bradford. Additionally, information presented at the sentencing hearing indicated that Shoemaker used various platfo... More...
$ (12-15-2025 - TX)Kaukab Khan v. Crossover Market, LLC; Trilogy, Inc.
El Paso, Texas pro se Plaintiff without a lawyer field a civil rights claimed against the Defendants.<br> <br> laintiff-Appellant Kaukab Khan, an Indian national, sued Defendant-Appellee Crossover Market, a staffing firm which recruits remote workers on behalf of other companies, including Defendant-Appellee Trilogy. In April 2025, Khan applied for a remote job as a research analyst at Trilogy. Ac... More...
$0 (11-14-2025 - TX)State of Texas v. Michael Richardson and Gayle Bell
Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyers representing the Defendants charged with abuse of corpses.<br> <br> Michael Richardson, 72, and Gayle Bell, 63, — the co-owners of Richardson Mortuary were charged with abuse of a corpse. More than 100 bodies, some cremated and some awaiting embalmment were found on the property.... More...
$0 (11-04-2025 - TX)State of Texas v. Louis Armando Rojas
Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder.<br> <br> Louis Armando Rojas, 38, is accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend's husband in West Harris County after a domestic dispute in 2011. Rojas was charged on Jan 1, 2012, with murder – a first-degree felony.<br> <br> In 2017, law enforcement became aware that Rojas was promoting himself on YouTube as... More...
$0 (09-19-2025 - TX)State of Texas v. Andrew Wayne Roark
Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with child abuse.<br> <br> On July 16, 1997, Roark was caring for his girlfriend's 13-month-old child when he later discovered<br> the child unconscious that afternoon at home. After undergoing examination, it was medically<br> determined that the one-year-old had been violently shaken and Roark was charged with injury to a<b... More...
$0 (02-14-2000 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. Daniel Lee Hicks </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Houston, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of production of child pornography and one count of coercion and enticement of a minor </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Online child predator sentenced to 25 years<br> </h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></cente... More...
$0 (09-08-2025 - TX)Jane Doe 1 v. City View Independent school District
Wichita Falls, Texas personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights violation claim.<br> <br> Jane Doe attended high school in City View ISD from the fall of 2016<br> to the spring of 2020.1 Robert Morris was employed as a teacher and coach<br> at City View ISD while Doe was a student there. In 2016, Morris allegedly<br> began emotionally and sexually abusing Doe, then a fiftee... More...
$0 (09-04-2025 - TX)State of Texas v. Courtney Minor
Fort Worth, Texas criminal defense lawyer representing the Defendant charged with abuse of a corpse without legal authority and capital murder of a person under the age of 10.<br> <br> On July 20, 2024, Fort Worth Police said the department's Crimes Against Children Unit was investigating the death of an infant who was found in a dumpster at the La Hacienda Apartments at 4720 Norma Street.<br> <br... More...
$0 (08-27-2025 - TX)The State of Texas v. reginald Guillory
Beaumont, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated assault against two police officers.<br> <br> * * *<br> <br> CRIMINAL LAW. AGGRAVATED ASSAULT. The case involves the sufficiency of evidence to support convictions for aggravated assault against police officers, with the court affirming that identity can be established through direct or circumstantial evide... More...
$0 (08-14-2025 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. Nery Flores-Flores, Angel Mireles-Maldonado, Angel Navarro-Miranda </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Austin, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with illegal re-entry, unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> </center><br> Illegal Aliens with Violent Histories, Multiple DWIs Sentenced in Austin</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></ce... More...
$0 (08-08-2025 - TX)United States of America v. Harley Taylor
Houston, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with receiving and possessing child<br> pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2252A(a)(2)(B) and (a)(5)(B).<br> <br> In 2019, Taylor pleaded guilty to promoting child pornography in violation of Texas Penal Code § 43.26 and was sentenced to three years in prison. He was released on parole after serving less than a... More...
$0 (08-04-2025 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. Christopher Lynn Driskill </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center>San Angelo, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with producing child sexual abuse material </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Coleman man identified by distinctive tattoos sentenced to 720 months in federal prison for producing child sexual abuse material</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/... More...
$0 (08-01-2025 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. James Richard Rollins </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Beaumont, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing child pornography at halfway house </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Beaumont parolee sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography at halfway house</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b... More...
$0 (07-29-2025 - TX)Carmen Purl, M.D. d/b/a Dr. Purls Fast Care Walk In Clinic v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al.
Amarillo, Texas civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff seeking declaratory and injunctive relief.<br> <br> Carmen Purl wanted to protect her patients by reporting suspected abuse and safeguard the health and safety of mothers and children. The Biden-Harris administration's recent regulation changes, however, illegally restrict how doctors can protect patients from the harms of abortion and... More...
$0 (07-03-2025 - TX)United States of America v. Montreal Leonard Burnett
Amarillo, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.<br> <br> 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) is a federal law that prohibits individuals convicted of felonies from possessing firearms. Specifically, it makes it unlawful for any person "who has been convicted in any court of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding on... More...
$0 (06-11-2025 - TX)Kasi Sierra v. Collectech Diversified Inc and Equifax Information Services LLC
Lubbock, Texas consumer credit lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Fair Debt Collection Act violation theory.<br> <br> * * *<br> <br> The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) is a federal law designed to protect consumers from abusive, unfair, and deceptive practices by debt collectors. It outlines what debt collectors can and cannot do when trying to collect debts. The FDCPA aim... More...
$0 (07-03-2025 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. Mark Martinez </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> El Paso, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing and exchanging child sexual abuse material </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Previously Convicted Sex Offender Sentenced to Life in Federal Prison for New Child Pornography Charges and Registration Violations</h2></center></b></b></ce... More...
$0 (06-30-2025 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. Zachary Arzola </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Texarkana, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Franklin County man sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for child exploitation violation</h2></center></b></b></center></b><br> <br> A Mount V... More...
$0 (06-05-2025 - TX)In re the Marriage of Marc and Nina Bianchi
Redwood City, California family lawyer lawyers represented the parties in a divorce.<br> <br> "In 2014, Nina and Marc married in Texas. Their daughter (hereinafter Daughter) was born the same year. They soon went into debt, sold the house Marc owned in Texas, and went to live with Marc's mother in San Mateo.<br> <br> "The couple divorced in 2019. The stipulated judgment of dissolution a... More...
$0 (05-19-2025 - TX)Jonathan David Jarrett v. Tiffany Marie Jarrett
Tyler, Texas family law lawyers represented the parties in a divorce.<br> <br> Tiffany testified that she and Jonathan have two children, Ian and Luke, who were fifteen and thirteen at the time of trial. Tiffany testified that she and Jonathan separated in late November,[3] when she left as a result of Jonathan's abuse and went to a women's shelter. According to Tiffany, several incidents that No... More...
$0 (05-08-2025 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. Hardik Jayantilal Patel </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Houston, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with multimillion-dollar elder fraud </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Illegal alien sentenced in multimillion-dollar elder fraud ring </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> The second ringleader in an international fraud scheme vic... More...
$0 (04-22-2025 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. Jose Rodriguez Jr. </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Houston, TX criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing child sexual abuse material </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Federal jury finds human smuggler guilty of possessing child sexual abuse material </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A 43-year-old Lyford man has been co... More...
$0 (04-15-2025 - TX)David Fountain v. Rebekah Ross
San Marcos, Texas family law lawyers presented the parties in divorce.<br> <br> David Fountain and Rebekah Ross could not agree on how to divide their assets in their dissolution of marriage.<br> <br> The District Court entered its "Final Order Clarifying Final Decree of Divorce and Order Authorizing the Issuance of a Qualified Domestic Relations Order" and "Qualified Domestic Relations Order," bo... More...
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