Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyers represented the Plaintiff seeking the vacation of a sentenced pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2255, which provides:

(a) A prisoner in custody under sentence of a court established by Act of Congress claiming the right to be released upon the ground that the sentence was imposed in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States, or that the c... More...    $0 (07-10-2025 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography.

In 2023, Fawcett pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography. The Presentence Investigation Report (PSR) calculated a total offense level of 34 under § 2G2.2 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines (U.S.S.G. or the Guidelines), a criminal history category of II,... More...    $0 (04-21-2025 - UT)

From 1998 to 2009, Alavina Florreich was the nanny for
Alex and his siblings. Florreich is a Tongan immigrant, and Alex
and his siblings were the homeschooled children of a Jewish
rabbi.
¶3 When Alex was eight years old, Florreich was watching a
movie with Alex and his younger siblings one day when Alex
began giving her a shoulder massage. While doing so, Alex
s... More...    $0 (01-24-2024 - UT)

During the weekend of June 26 to 27, 2015, five-year-old
B.B. slept over at the home of Forbush, who is his uncle. About
three weeks later, B.B. was showering with his father (Father), as
was apparently their occasional practice, when B.B. asked why his
uncircumcised penis looked different from Father’s circumcised
penis. Father replied that B.B. didn’t need to worry b... More...    $0 (01-24-2024 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with distributing large quantities of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and marijuana in St. George.

Angel Rubio-Quintana, 42, of St. George, Utah, was first discovered by agents in March 2020, after learning that an individual in St. George was receiving large amounts of methamphetamine from a Mexican cartel. During an ... More...    $0 (07-27-2023 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with discharging a firearm during and in relation to carjacking and possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute offenses.

On May 19, 2021, James Howard Klein, 35, of Chaska, Minnesota, was stopped by deputies in Juab County off Interstate-15 for a traffic violation. During a search of the Klein’s v... More...    $0 (05-26-2023 - UT)

St. George, Utah criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with distribution of meth.

Stanley Beckstrom traveled to California to obtain methamphetamine. On July 21, 2021, Beckstrom delivered methamphetamine to a local restaurant in downtown St. George. The methamphetamine was tested in a drug lab. It was 100% pure and weighed one pound.

The Washington County Drug Task F... More...    $0 (10-26-2022 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with distribution of controlled substances in violation of 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1), which provides:

(a) Unlawful actsExcept as authorized by this subchapter, it shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally—
(1) to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture, distribute, ... More...    $0 (05-09-2022 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with theft of firearms from a federally licensed firearms dealer and being a restricted person in possession of firearms.

Brett Clinton Combs, age 41, of Las Vegas used a rock to break into the Dixie Fish and Gun store in St. George during the early morning hours of March 4, 2022. After a “glass breakâ€� alar... More...    $0 (07-07-2022 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with drug trafficking and money laundering.

Joseph “Norte Joeâ€� Gomez, the lead defendant in a large-scale 32 defendant federal indictment, was with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and conspiracy to launder money. All thirty-one members and associates of the Norteños street gang responsible for distri... More...    $0 (12-14-2021 - 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, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant accused of failing to properly inventory, track and maintain control over controlled substances.

Dr. Joe Roundy, a licensed veterinarian and the owner of the Tooele Veterinary Clinic in Tooele, Utah, was ordered to pay the United States $78,455 and restrict his prescribing of opioids and other controlled substances for vio... More...    $0 (08-19-2021 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with three counts related to fraudulently obtaining and tampering with the pain killing narcotic hydromorphone, a powerful schedule II opioid drug that is used to treat patients with moderate to severe pain.

During Pehrson’s employment as a nurse at an Intermountain Healthcare facility on a surgical and trauma wa... More...    $0 (07-30-2021 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah drug distribution charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Justin Patterson.

21:841(a)(1) CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - SELL, DISTRIBUTE, OR DISPENSE - Distribution of Methamphetamine
(1s)... More...    $0 (06-10-2021 - UT)

Conrad Truman sued state prosecutor Craig Johnson and various Orem City
police officers for violating his civil rights by fabricating evidence that was used
against him in a murder prosecution. Mr. Truman was prosecuted twice for the
murder of his wife. According to Mr. Truman’s complaint, the prosecution
knowingly falsified measurements of the murder scene to rule out the possib... More...    $0 (06-04-2021 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants who were charged with telemarketing fraud.

Marc Tager, Jonathon Shoucair, Matthew Mangrum, and Kenneth Gross were charged for their roles in an eight million dollar telemarketing fraud scheme that promised investors, most of them elderly, that their business could extract gold from dirt.

Tager, Shoucair, and Man... More...    $0 (05-20-2021 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah drug trafficking criminal lawyer represented defendant.

Aaron Michael Shamo, the CEO of a nationwide dark net was charged with running a drug trafficking organization that distributed more than a half million counterfeit pills throughout the country.

A federal jury found Shamo guilty of organizing and directing a drug trafficking organization that imported f... More...    $0 (10-30-2020 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - The United States of America charged Elet Neilson with stealing pain medications from patients.

Elet Neilson, age 53, of Layton, a former emergency room nurse who admitted to tampering with controlled substances intended for patients and diverting the drugs for her own use, will serve 60 months in federal prison.

As a result of the tampering and diversion, ... More...    $0 (01-30-2020 - 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)

This appeal concerns an assigned claim on a liability-insurance policy. Belsen
Getty, LLC, a registered investment adviser owned by Terry Deru, obtained a claimsmade
financial-services-liability policy (the Policy) from XL Specialty Insurance
Company covering Belsen Getty and its advisers for the period from October 9, 2010, to
October 9, 2011. Under the policy, XL had no duty to d... More...    $0 (09-11-2018 - UT)

Xlear, Inc. and Focus Nutrition, LLC are both in the business of selling
sweeteners that use the sugar alcohol xylitol. Xlear filed a complaint raising a trade
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dress infringement claim under the Lanham Act, a claim under the Utah Truth in
Advertising Act (UTIAA), and a claim under the common law for unfair competition.
The claims all alleged that Focus Nutrition copied the pa... More...    $0 (06-30-2018 - UT)

A jury convicted James Hayes of several offenses related to distributing
methamphetamine, and the district court sentenced him to 20 years in prison. Hayes
appeals only his sentence. He argues the district court erred by sentencing him
within the enhanced range for defendants with a prior felony drug conviction, and by
not affording him the opportunity to speak on his own behalf be... More...    $0 (06-10-2018 - UT)

Michael Binks was convicted of possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia. In this appeal he challenges the denial of his motion to suppress the evidence that formed the basis for his conviction. We affirm. ¶2 When officers stopped Binks’s vehicle, they had at least reasonable suspicion to investigate two traffic violations and possible drug possession. And when the officers approached the vehicl... More...    $0 (05-13-2018 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - Utah Resident Pleads Guilty To Devising Scheme To Obtain Construction Contracts Set Aside For Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Businesses

A Utah man pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in federal court on February 16, 2018 for his role in a fraud scheme he devised to obtain government construction contracts set aside for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Busi... More...    $0 (02-20-2018 - UT)

The State tried Mr. Martin on four counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree felony, for sexually abusing his sisters-in-law A.L. and N.L. while occupying “a position of special trust in relation to” them. UTAH CODE § 76-5-404.1(4)(h). ¶ 7 At trial, A.L. testified that Mr. Martin had touched her vagina on four different occasions while he was supervising her; N.L. testified tha... More...    $0 (11-26-2017 - UT)

In November 2009, Benjamin Rettig and Martin Bond traveled from Vernal, Utah, to the home of Kay Mortensen in Spanish Fork, Utah.1 Mortensen owned a large supply of firearms that were located in a “bunker” behind his home. Bond and Rettig traveled to his home with the intent to steal some of his firearms. The two entered Mortensen’s home with a handgun while wearing ski masks and latex gloves. The... More...    $0 (11-26-2017 - UT)

¶1 More than nine years ago, Dennis Terry Wynn (Defendant) was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay restitution in excess of $700,000. Now he argues, among other things, that that amount renders his sentence illegal. Because we conclude that Defendant is not entitled to relief under the many theories he advances, we affirm the district court’s denial of his several motions.
BACKGROUND
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¶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)