Caldwell, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with grand theft, resisting and obstructing, and being a persistent violator,

At trial, the State called the victim of the stolen car, Officer Burgoyne, and Detective Scott as witnesses. The victim testified that during the early morning hours, he drove to work, parked his car, and left his car unlocked with the ke... More...    $0 (02-10-2025 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with securities fraud.

From February 2015 through February 2020, Crystal A. Huang, 41, of Lehi, Utah, offered investments in her company, ProSky Inc., by providing false promises and information to potential investors. In June, Ms. Huang admitted that she devised a scheme intended to defraud investors and obtai... More...    $0 (09-06-2023 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah civil litigation lawyers represented plaintiff who sued Defendants ona breach of contract theory.


Plaintiff Steven Flint sued Defendants Gary Armstrong and Kenny Pecora for allegedly breaching a purchase agreement. Flint also included United States Mounted Shooting, LLC (USMS) as a Nominal Defendant for purposes of a declaratory judgment claim only. Before the co... More...    $0 (07-07-2023 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants claiming that they violated his civil rights.


Plaintiff Jeff Hall sues Salt Lake Police Department Officers Val Brown and Kevin Murray and the City of Salt Lake, asserting that Officers Brown and Murray deprived him “of his rights protected under the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to th... More...    $0 (08-29-2022 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with filing a false tax return, tax evasion and engaging in a corrupt endeavor.

Derald Wilford Geddes, of Ogden, was a dentist who owned and operated Mount Ogden Dental PC. From approximately 1998 through 2014, Geddes took numerous steps to evade approximately $1.8 million in back federal income taxes that he owed.... More...    $0 (03-22-2022 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of heroine with intent to distribute.

Jimmy Astudillo, age 32, of Salt Lake City, was for possession of heroin with intent to distribute, related to his role in the distribution of narcotics that caused the fatal overdose of a Park City woman in 2018.

Astudillo previously entered his guilty... More...    $0 (11-10-2021 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with tax evasion and corruptly endeavoring to obstruct the IRS.

In March 2012, Louis Hansen, of Orem, presented the IRS a $342,669.41 check he knew was drawn on a closed bank account, in a fraudulent effort to evade paying taxes, penalties and interest he owed for a number of years. In June 2012, Hansen presented 10... More...    $0 (11-02-2021 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with attempting to evade the payment of his federal income taxes and corruptly endeavoring to impair the administration of the internal revenue laws.

According to the evidence presented at trial and other court documents, in March 2012, Louis Hansen, of Orem, presented a check to the IRS in the amount of $342,699.4... More...    $0 (08-13-2021 - UT)

Charles Payan appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of
United Parcel Service (“UPS”) in relation to his claims for racial discrimination and
retaliation arising under Title VII and 42 U.S.C. § 1981, as well as his state law claims
for breach of contract and breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing.
Exercising jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C.... More...    $0 (10-10-2018 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - Utah PSN Partners Target Those Who “Lie-And-Try” To Purchase A Firearm; Two Federal Firearms Licensees Also Charged

Utah Project Safe Neighborhoods partners have a message for those who “lie-and-try” in attempting to purchase a firearm from federal firearms licensees in Utah: If you lie on paperwork you are required to complete to purchase a firearm, you may end up f... More...    $0 (05-10-2018 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - North Ogden Woman Pleads Guilty To Mail Fraud, Tax Evasion; Admits She Embezzled $843,673 From Her Employer

Hailey Keele, age 35, of North Ogden, pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of tax evasion in federal court Wednesday afternoon in connection with a $843,673 embezzlement scheme at the business where she worked.

In court documents fi... More...    $0 (12-18-2017 - UT)

Michael Johnson was charged and tried for murder. At trial, Mr. Johnson requested an instruction for the lesser offense of homicide by assault. The trial court agreed and stated on the record that it would use the homicide by assault instruction submitted by Mr. Johnson. ¶3 The jury returned a guilty verdict on the murder charge, and Mr. Johnson appealed his conviction to the court of appeals. H... More...    $0 (11-26-2017 - UT)

¶1 Chadley Keith Calvert appeals his convictions for aggravated assault, a third degree felony, and for threatening with or using a dangerous weapon in a fight or quarrel, a class A misdemeanor. Calvert contends that his trial counsel provided constitutionally ineffective assistance in failing to raise arguments related to double jeopardy and that the trial court exceeded its discretion in admitti... More...    $0 (11-20-2017 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT Utah Financial Advisor Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion, Securities Fraud and Wire Fraud - Defrauded Investors Out of More than $10 Million and Caused Tax Loss of Over $1 Million

A St. George, Utah, financial advisor pleaded guilty on October 30, 2017 to his role in selling fraudulent tax-avoidance and investment strategies to his clients.

According to documents an... More...    $0 (10-31-2017 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - Utah Chiropractor Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion and Obstructing the IRS

An Orem, Utah former chiropractor, who also owned a health care products business, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for tax evasion and corruptly endeavoring to obstruct the internal revenue laws.

Louis Hansen, 65, was convicted following a jury trial in July. According to docu... More...    $0 (09-26-2017 - UT)

¶ 1 This appeal requires us to decide whether a credit card
error that caused Carole and James Marziale’s complaint against
Spanish Fork City (the City) to be rejected means that their
complaint and the attached undertaking were not timely filed. We
affirm the court of appeals and hold that the payment error did
not affect the timeliness of the Marziales’ filing.
MARZIALE ... More...    $0 (08-22-2017 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - Utah Chiropractor Convicted of Tax Evasion and Obstructing the IRS

Submitted Checks to IRS Were Drawn on Closed Accounts

An Orem, Utah former chiropractor, who also owned a health care products business, was convicted of tax evasion and corruptly endeavoring to obstruct the internal revenue laws.

According to evidence presented at trial, Louis Hanse... More...    $0 (07-13-2017 - UT)

¶1 In this interlocutory appeal, plaintiff Jacob D. Williams appeals the district court’s grant of a motion in limine preventing him from presenting damages-related evidence at trial. Challenging the basis for the court’s ruling, Williams contends that he adequately disclosed “a computation of any damages claimed” for purposes of rule 26 of the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure when he disclosed that ... More...    $0 (06-07-2017 - UT)

C.W. Mining Company, a coal-mining company, was forced into bankruptcy after
creditors filed a petition for involuntary bankruptcy on January 8, 2008. Several months
before the petition was filed, C.W. Mining had entered into its first contract with SMC
Electrical Products, Inc.—an agreement to purchase equipment with a view toward
greatly increasing coal production by converting i... More...    $0 (08-10-2015 - UT)

Defendant Jeffrey Zander was convicted of two counts of mail fraud, two counts of
wire fraud, one count of money laundering, and three counts of willful failure to file
federal tax returns. He was sentenced to sixty-eight months of imprisonment and ordered
to pay $202,543.92 in restitution to the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, the main victim of his
fraud. On appeal, he challenges ... More...    $0 (07-25-2015 - UT)

In 2013, Defendant-Appellant Michael E. Pettit was indicted on one count
of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, in violation of 21 U.S.C.
§ 841(a)(1), after police discovered 2.5 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a vehicle
he was driving. Mr. Pettit filed a motion to suppress, which the district court
denied following an evidentiary hearing. United States v. Pettit, No.<... More...    $0 (05-13-2015 - UT)

¶1 Dennis Gordon Rose was convicted of driving under the
influence of alcohol and other related offenses. A sheriff’s deputy
had stopped Rose after receiving a tip that a child was driving a
motorhome erratically on Old Highway 91 in Mona, Utah. The
district court denied Rose’s motion to suppress evidence arising
from the traffic stop. Rose appeals, arguing that the deputy... More...    $0 (02-26-2015 - UT)

¶1 Afraid that his wife, Helen Faucheaux, had overdosed on prescription pills, Kevin Faucheaux called 911. When police
1. The Honorable Russell W. Bench, Senior Judge, sat by special assignment as authorized by law. See generally Utah R. Jud. Admin. 11-201(6).
Faucheaux v. Provo City
20130690-CA 2 2015 UT App 3
officers arrived they concluded that Helen had not overdosed.2 Despite... More...    $0 (01-02-2015 - UT)

¶ 1 Disappointed investors filed suit against their investment agent, Jeffrey Campbell, and his former employer,
BURDICK v. HORNOR TOWNSEND
Opinion of the Court
2
Hornor, Townsend & Kent, Inc. (HTK), alleging that Mr. Campbell and HTK were liable for losses sustained in an investment scam. Mr. Campbell pleaded guilty to the sale of unregistered securities related to the investment... More...    $0 (01-23-2015 - UT)

¶1 John Andrew Armstrong (Husband) appeals from the
Fourth District Court’s order entering a civil stalking injunction
against him and in favor of Candace Peterson (Grandmother).
1. The Honorable Pamela T. Greenwood and Russell W. Bench,
Senior Judges, sat by special assignment as authorized by law. See
generally Utah R. Jud. Admin. 11-201(6).
Peterson v. Armstrong
H... More...    $0 (10-17-2014 - UT)

¶1 Claimant Janene Gourley seeks review of the Workforce
Appeals Board’s (the Board) decision that she had committed fraud
in the receipt of unemployment benefits and its order that she pay
a total of $3,216 for receiving an overpayment of benefits and as a
civil penalty. We decline to disturb the Board’s decision.
¶2 Gourley began receiving unemployment benefits on
N... More...    $0 (11-28-2014 - UT)

¶1 Defendant Shannon Stewart appeals her conviction for
possession or use of a controlled substance, a third degree felony,
and possession of drug paraphernalia, a class B misdemeanor. We
affirm.
¶2 On the night of December 1, 2008, a police officer pulled
Defendant over because her taillights were not working.1 The
1. “[W]e review the record facts in a light most favor... More...    $0 (12-11-2014 - UT)

¶1 On certiorari, petitioner Andrew LeBeau asks us to
consider whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district
court’s imposition of a sentence of life without the possibility of
parole following Mr. LeBeau’s conviction for aggravated kidnapping
pursuant to Utah Code section 76-5-302. Mr. LeBeau’s conviction
stems from a domestic dispute triggered by Mr. LeB... More...    $0 (09-19-2014 - UT)

¶1 This case comes before us on cross-motions for summary
disposition and on a petition for an extraordinary writ. The issues
presented in the motions and the petition are (1) whether an
interlocutory decision is subject to the implementing order requirements
of rule 7(f)(2) of the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure and, if so,
(2) whether a rule 54(b) certification can satisfy the... More...    $0 (10-03-2014 - UT)

¶1 This case comes before us on cross-motions for summary
disposition and on a petition for an extraordinary writ. The issues
presented in the motions and the petition are (1) whether an
interlocutory decision is subject to the implementing order requirements
of rule 7(f)(2) of the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure and, if so,
(2) whether a rule 54(b) certification can satisfy the... More...    $0 (10-03-2014 - UT)

¶1 Defendant Adrian J. Alvarado appeals his four convictions
of various drug-related charges. He raises several claims of error,
each involving the State’s midtrial disclosure of previously
undisclosed and unanticipated evidence. We affirm.
State v. Alvarado
20120807-CA 2 2014 UT App 87
BACKGROUND
¶2 On February 18, 2011, Agent Jared Francom, a member of
the Web... More...    $0 (04-17-2014 - UT)

¶1 Orem City sold a parcel of land to Northgate Village
Development. Northgate spent nearly three million dollars
excavating material buried on the property. Northgate sued the
City, claiming that the City failed to perform its contractual cleanup
responsibilities. The district court granted summary judgment
in the City’s favor and limited Northgate’s recovery to a single<... More...    $0 (04-17-2014 - UT)

¶1 John L. Legg Jr. appeals the trial court’s decision to revoke
his probation and impose the original sentence on his convictions
for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a third degree
felony, Utah Code Ann. § 76-5-103 (LexisNexis 2012), and for
possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person, a third
degree felony, id. § 76-10-503. Because of concerns we hav... More...    $0 (04-10-2014 - UT)

¶1 Defendant Dennis Lingmann was arrested in 2008 for multiple sex offenses involving a minor. While awaiting trial in the Salt Lake County Jail, he offered his cellmate (Cellmate) $2,000 to kill the minor and her family. Cellmate contacted
1. The Honorable Russell W. Bench, Senior Judge, sat by special assignment as authorized by law. See generally Utah Code Jud. Admin. R. 11-201(6).
Sta... More...    $0 (02-21-2014 - UT)

¶1 Clark Bruce Kidd (Husband) appeals from several orders of the trial court related to the dissolution of his marriage to Elaine J. Kidd (Wife). We affirm.
Kidd v. Kidd
20120460-CA 2 2014 UT App 26
BACKGROUND1
¶2 Husband and Wife married on March 13, 1980, and divorced on March 9, 2012, after thirty-two years of marriage. Although the parties were able to agree on most of the te... More...    $0 (01-30-2014 - UT)