Farmington, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with thirteen counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.

In October 2018, an agent (Agent) working for the Internet Crimes Against Children task force (ICAC) was alerted that a particular IP address had connected to an online peer-to-peer file-sharing network and that someone at the IP address had offered to distr... More...    $0 (02-21-2025 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with multiple counts of extortion and cyberstalking a Utah victim and her family.

Jordy Julian Alvarez, 28, a Texas resident, repeatedly harassed and intimidated the female victim to provide an explicit video or he would release to the public compromising photos and videos of the victim already in his possession. ... More...    $0 (05-09-2023 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with attempting to meet a 13-year-old girl he was communicating with via Facebook Messenger.

Christopher Philip Padilla, 33, of Salt Lake City, admitted that between September 2020 and January 2021 he used Facebook Messenger and his cell phone to communicate with a 13-year-old girl. On January 15, 2021, Padilla dro... More...    $0 (03-28-2023 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with attempting to meet a 13-year-old girl he was communicating with via Facebook Messenger – who was in fact an undercover officer.

According to court documents, Christopher Philip Padilla, 33, of Salt Lake City, admitted that between September 2020 and January 2021 he used Facebook Messenger and his cell phone... More...    $0 (03-30-2023 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with selling or buying children and activities constituting child porno.

Joel Lehi Organista, 29, of Salt Lake City, was pleaded guilty to two felony counts related to the production and transportation of child pornography. The court ordered the federal prison sentence to run concurrently with a sentence ordered by... More...    $0 (06-15-2022 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with production and dissemination of child exploitation materials.

In August of 2020, HSI investigators received a request for assistance from Australian law enforcement officials related to an individual located in Utah who was distributing child exploitation materials with an individual located in Australia. The ... More...    $0 (02-18-2022 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - Salt Lake City Man Sentenced to 330 Months in Federal Prison for Distribution of Child Pornography

Donald Ray Fritcher, age 36, of Salt Lake City, will spend 330 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to distribution of child pornography. U.S. District Judge Dale A. Kimball, who imposed the sentence, also placed Fritcher on supervised release for life when he ... More...    $0 (07-31-2017 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - Utah Business Owner Convicted of Dealing in Firearms without a License and Filing False Tax Returns

Convicted of Illegally Selling Firearms and Underreporting More than $10 Million in Gross Receipts

A Salt Lake County, Utah, man was convicted by a federal jury of one count of dealing in firearms without a license and five counts of filing false tax returns.More...    $0 (10-04-2016 - UT)

Salt Lake Ciyt, UT - Salt Lake City Man Pleads Guilty To Possession Of Child Pornography; Agreement Includes Stipulated 156-Month Sentence

Jonathan Brett Wood, age 49, of Salt Lake City, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography in U.S. District Court. The plea agreement reached with federal prosecutors includes a stipulated 156-month sentence. The case is a part of ... More...    $0 (01-31-2016 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - Hansen Sentenced To 10 Years In Federal Prison For Possession Of Child Porngraphy

A Salt Lake City man who admitted he had more than 600 images of child pornography in his possession, including images depicting young children being sexually assaulted by adults, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.

Steven Seth Hansen, age 36, of Salt L... More...    $0 (11-10-2015 - UT)

Within a month after Raymond Zisumbo complained to his supervisor at Ogden
Regional Medical Center (ORMC) about alleged race discrimination in the workplace,
2
ORMC investigated Zisumbo for submitting apparently fraudulent letters to his
supervisor months earlier. After confirming that at least one of the letters was falsified,
ORMC terminated Zisumbo’s employment. Zisumbo sued... More...    $0 (09-04-2015 - UT)

¶1 After a bench trial, Stephen Dale Bingham was convicted of stalking, a class A misdemeanor. The trial court sentenced Bingham to nine months in jail and imposed a fine of $1,000. Bingham appeals his conviction. We affirm.
State v. Bingham
20130782-CA 2 2015 UT App 103
BACKGROUND1
¶2 The trial court relied on three separate incidents to find Bingham guilty of stalking. The firs... More...    $0 (04-23-2015 - UT)

Defendant-Appellant Michael Loren Dunn was convicted of possession of
child pornography, 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B) (Count I), receipt of child
pornography, 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2) & (b) (Count II), and distribution of child
pornography, 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2) & (b) (Count III). 1 R. 583–85. The
district court sentenced Mr. Dunn to 144 months’ imprisonment and a 25-year
... More...    $0 (02-10-2015 - UT)

¶ 1 Paul Melancon set fire to his brother’s house. After his arrest, he met with a prosecutor and accepted a plea deal. As part of that deal, Paul Melancon agreed to testify that he had enkindled the house as part of a plan his brother, Michael Melancon (Defendant), had devised to collect the proceeds of an insurance policy. Before Defendant’s trial, Defendant sought to disqualify the prosecu... More...    $0 (11-14-2014 - UT)

¶1 Westmont Residential, LLC and Terry Foote (collectively,
Westmont) appeal the trial court’s dismissal of all of Westmont’s
claims against Brad Buttars and Sarah Miller (collectively,
Defendants). We affirm.
BACKGROUND
¶2 Defendants sought an early termination of their one-year
“Uniform Residential Rental Agreement� (the Rental Agreement)
to rent an apartmen... More...    $0 (12-11-2014 - UT)

¶1 After police discovered child pornography on Defendant Bradley Fuller‘s computer, he was charged with ten counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, all second-degree felonies. Pursuant to a plea agreement, Mr. Fuller pled guilty to five counts of voyeurism but reserved the right to appeal the trial court‘s order denying his Motion to Suppress. On appeal, he challenges the warrant under the... More...    $0 (07-11-2014 - UT)

Sixteen years ago Carolyn Bayless began to suffer from a mysterious debilitating
illness. As her condition deteriorated over the years that followed, she doggedly sought
to learn what caused (and how to treat) her illness. Finally, in 2008, convinced that she
was the victim of exposure to nerve gas emitted by an Army testing facility, she filed a
claim under the Federal Tort Claims... More...    $0 (09-12-2014 - UT)

¶1 After police discovered child pornography on Defendant Bradley Fuller‘s computer, he was charged with ten counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, all second-degree felonies. Pursuant to a plea agreement, Mr. Fuller pled guilty to five counts of voyeurism but reserved the right to appeal the trial court‘s order denying his Motion to Suppress. On appeal, he challenges the warrant under the... More...    $0 (07-11-2014 - UT)

Chris Hogan lost his job with the Utah Telecommunications Open
Infrastructure Agency, or “UTOPIA,� a state agency charged with upgrading
high-speed internet access. Claiming he was fired for revealing a conflict of
interest in contract awards, he threatened to sue the agency for wrongful
termination. Shortly after making this threat, he was subject to several
unflattering m... More...    $0 (08-06-2014 - UT)

¶1 D. Chris Robertson appeals from his convictions on twenty
counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, each a second degree
felony. See Utah Code Ann. § 76�5b�201 (LexisNexis 2012).
Robertson argues that by prosecuting him after his federal
conviction for the same conduct, the State violated his
constitutional rights by placing him twice in jeopardy for the same
offen... More...    $0 (03-06-2014 - 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 Jack David Moyer was convicted of ten counts of sexual
exploitation of a minor, a second degree felony, based on his
possession of child pornography. See Utah Code Ann. § 76-5a-3
(LexisNexis 2008) (current version at Utah Code Ann. § 76-5b-201
(LexisNexis 2012)). Moyer appeals his convictions, alleging
prosecutorial misconduct and juror bias. We affirm.
State v. Moyer... More...    $0 (01-09-2014 - UT)

¶1 Conilyn Judge sued her cosmetic surgeon, Dr. Renato Saltz,
and his office, Saltz Plastic Surgery, PC, (collectively, Saltz) after
they provided photographs of five patients, including Judge, to a
television news reporter. The reporter included two photographs
depicting Judge before and after her surgery in a news story
broadcast on television and posted on the internet. The... More...    $0 (06-26-2014 - UT)

¶1 Jose Luis Avalos appeals from a jury verdict in favor of TL
Custom, LLC (TLC). Avalos argues that the trial court exceeded its
discretion in admitting evidence that TLC had gone out of business.
He also argues that the jury’s verdict that TLC was not negligent is
not supported by sufficient evidence. We affirm.
Avalos v. TL Custom
2. “On appeal from a jury verdict, ... More...    $0 (07-03-2014 - UT)

¶1 In 2007, Kenneth Trotter pled guilty to unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. Mr. Trotter later moved to withdraw his guilty plea, claiming it was not made voluntarily or knowingly because his defense counsel and the trial court failed to advise him that his plea would carry with it the requirement that he register as a sex offender. Mr. Trotter argued that this failure amounted to ineffective... More...    $0 (05-20-2014 - UT)

¶1 The Department of Workforce Services has adopted a rule deeming unemployment claimants ineligible for benefits if they travel outside the United States for more than two weeks. UTAH ADMIN. CODE r. 994-403-112c(2)(a)(i)(B) (2011). In the administra-tive proceedings below, the principal dispute concerned the ques-tion whether this rule could properly extend to a seasonal worker who was not requi... More...    $0 (06-20-2014 - UT)

Sixteen years ago Carolyn Bayless began to suffer from a mysterious debilitating illness. As her condition deteriorated over the years that followed, she doggedly sought to learn what caused (and how to treat) her illness. Finally, in 2008, convinced that she was the victim of exposure to nerve gas emitted by an Army testing facility, she filed a claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act. When this ... More...    $0 (04-28-2014 - UT)

¶1 Robert Baird sought and obtained a stalking injunction against his mother, Gloria Baird. The district court entered the three year injunction after determining that Gloria’s nearly daily phone calls to Robert were causing him emotional distress. On appeal, we are asked to determine whether the district court erred in entering the injunction based solely on its finding that Gloria’s conduct... More...    $0 (03-07-2014 - UT)