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United States of America v. Katrina McCant
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1341 and aggravated identity theft in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1028 A. 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> Beginning in January 2021, and continuing until December 2021, Katrina McCant, 41, of Baltimore, used her position as a contractor for Company #1 to advance the scheme. Co
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Thomas Goldstein
Greenbelt, Maryland, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with tax evasion in violation of 26 U.S.C. 7201, aiding and assisting the preparation of false and fraudulent tax returns in violation of 26 U.S.C. 7206, willful failure to pay taxes in violation of 26 U.S.C. 7203. and making false statements on loan applications in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1014. Digested by: <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Neville Lloyd Hibbert
Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with manufacturing and distributing cocaine. 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> Mr. Hibbert's plea was entered in reliance on counsel's assurance that there would be no immigration consequences. That affirmative advice was wrong. As a result, Mr. Hibbert was denied the opportunity to make an informed choice of whethe
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Camille Jones
Greenbelt, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring with a subcontractor to receive $790,000 in kickbacks. 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> Camille Jones admitted that she steered a large employee assistant program contract to a prime contractor and a subcontracting company, YMJ Consulting, which is owned by Camille Jonesâs relative, Yolanda M. J
View VerdictCommonwealth of Maryland v. Cameron Cunningham
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with violating his civil rights by providing medical care he received while in custody as a juvenile. Cunningham is appealing the Circuit Court for Baltimore City's dismissal of his suit for untimeliness under the Maryland Tort Claims Act. 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> On October 11, 2019, Baltimore County Po
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Daiwor âMark Brownâ Woah-Tee
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged harged with conspiracy to submit false, fictitious, and fraudulent claims to the Internal Revenue Service and wire fraud conspiracy stemming from a scheme to fraudulently obtain UI benefits during the COVID-19 Pandemic. 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> Beginning in January 2018, and continuing until December 2024,
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Michael Maurice Johnson
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged two counts of first-degree rape and one count of first-degree assault. Michael Maurice Johnson was accused of attacking his girlfriend in Baltimore County in 2024.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Nicholas Parks
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering. Nicholas Parks, 53, of Winnetka, California, admits that from October 2020 through January 2021, he participated in a conspiracy to launder proceeds he and his associates generated through selling marijuana in Maryland. As part of the conspiracy, female co-conspirators transported marijuana from California to Maryland, usually via commercial air travel. Parks traveled se
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Edgar Christopher Bradford
Rockville, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with third-degree sex offense.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Anika Bywter
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to engage in illicit sexual contact in foreign places. While living in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, Anika Bywater, 29, formerly of Gonzalez, Texas, and another person created two separate videos of themselves sexually abusing a young child. Law enforcement officers learned of the conduct when they discovered videos of the abuse circulating on the internet. This case is part of Project Safe Ch
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jason Michael Leidel
Greenbelt, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with cyberstalking in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2261. Jason Michael Leidel, 45, of Silver Spring, Maryland, engaged in berstalking his ex-wife and her boyfriend. on multiple occasions, Leidel sent emails with false allegations to get Victim 1, his ex-wife, fired from her job as a special education teacher at a public school. Additionally, Leidel sent emails trying to get his ex-wife and their children evicted
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Bryan Betancur
Rockville, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with assault and battery. Bryan Betancur, 28, of Silver Spring, Maryland, setting fire to a female passengersâ hair on Metro trains in the D.C. area. The Defendant was charged, convicted and pardoned for his participation in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Tammy Barcus
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. From 2016 through 2024, Tammy Barcus, age 57, of Berlin, Maryland, a former office manager and bookkeeper for an Ocean City-based home builder, embezzled approximately $1.79 million from her former employer. Barcus used her position of trust to embezzle funds from her employer by issuing more than 500 fraudulently authorized checks from the home builderâs business ba
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Clifton Mosley
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with witness-murder and marijuana trafficking. During trial, the Government presented evidence that Mosley was friends and drug-trafficking partners with Davon Carter and Matthew Hightower. Hightower had been indicted for healthcare fraud and extortion, due to information provided to the authorities by his co-worker Lisa Edmonds. Edmonds was to be a key witness in Hightowerâs upcoming trial. The Governmen
View VerdictKilmar Ăbrego GarcĂa v. United States of America
Baltimore, Maryland, immigration law lawyers represented the Plaintiff seeking a declaratory judgment and injunction to prevent the government from deporting him. Kilmar Ăbrego GarcĂa was mistakenly deported to his home country last year. He sought a decision of the Federal District Court that the government had no viable plan for deporting him.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Mario Valencia-Birruetta
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute drugs. Mario Valencia-Birruetta, 35, of Corning, California, distributed large quantities of cocaine. As a result of their investigation, in July 2023, investigators learned Valencia-Birruetta was a member of this DTO, so law enforcement placed him on a flight watch list. On August 14, a commercial airline notified investigators that Valencia-Bi
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Lawrence Nathanial Harris
Greenbelt, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a machine gun and possession with intent to distribute drugs. Lawrence Nathanial Harris, 33, of Temple Hills Maryland, admitted that on November 16, 2022, while law enforcement executed a residential search warrant at his home, he threw a firearm and a bag of marijuana from his room. He possessed this firearm in furtherance of his drug-trafficking activities. During a search of Harrisâs attic,
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Duane Watts
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer David Walsh -Little represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Beginning in May 2020, and continuing through at least May 2021, Duane Watts, 46, of Baltimore, Maryland, engaged in a conspiracy to defraud and obtain money through materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises in connection with the UI scheme. Watts also engaged in aggravated identity theft, obtaini
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Ashlee Nicole Scott
Salisbury, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with twenty-three counts stemming from her involvement in an August 2023 assault, robbery, and shooting in Salisbury, Maryland. . Whether the evidence was insufficient to support Ms. Scottâs convictions? II. Whether the instruction to the jury on accomplice liability was erroneous? IV. Whether the court violated Ms. Scottâs confrontation right by admitting evidence of a non-testifying co-defendantâs
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Daquwan Hicks
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a firearm with a nexus to a drug trafficking crime.
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Reginald Lincoln Leo, Jr.
Hagerstown, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with armed carjacking, two counts of first-degree assault, two counts of armed robbery, two counts of reckless endangerment, car theft, two counts of theft under $1,000, and use of a firearm in the commission of crime of violence.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. IAP Worldwide Services, Inc.
Baltimore, Maryland, commercial litigation lawyers represented the Defendant on a False Claims Act action. The U.S. alleged that on November 4, 2015, IAP undertook the performance of a contract awarded by the U.S. Navyâs Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River, Maryland (the Contract). The Contract, among other things, required IAP to maintain and support a certain military aircraft, which included the repair, replacement, and replenishment of items used in the repair and maintenance
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Denis C. Thomason
Hagerstown, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with violating a protective order. Legal issue What jurisdiction does a circuit court exercise when ruling on a motion to correct an illegal sentence after initially exercising appellate jurisdiction? APPELLATE PROCEDURE. JURISDICTION. The case addresses the jurisdiction of the circuit court when ruling on a motion to correct an illegal sentence, determining that such ruling was not made in the exercise of appe
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Kamel Hay
Greenbelt, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with involuntary manslaughter. On February 5, 2022, Kamel Hay, 26, of Houston, Texas, was driving his vehicle northbound on the BW Parkway at a high rate of speed as he wove through traffic. Eventually, Hay lost control of his car, striking two other vehicles, before his car left the roadway and struck a tree. His front-seat passenger (Victim 1. age 33), who was wearing a seatbelt, died after Hayâs car stuck th
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Vanessa Valdez
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with an unemployment insurance (UI) fraud scheme. Beginning in at least May 2020, and continuing through at least September 2021, Vanessa Valdez, 42, of Burtonsville, Maryland, and other co-conspirators, engaged in a conspiracy and scheme to defraud and obtain money by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representatio
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Christian Ramos
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder and related offenses. Christian Ramos, 28, of Aurora, shootings on I-83 in Baltimore County.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Thaddeus Lamont Wills
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with commercial armed robbery. After a nine-day trial, on October 25, 2024, a federal jury found Thaddeus Lamont Wills, 52, of Waldorf, Maryland, was found guilty of conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce by robbery, two counts of interference with interstate commerce by robbery, and two counts of carjacking. Additionally, the jury convicted Wills of three counts of using, carrying, and brandishing a fire
View VerdictUnited States of America v. OJ Rashad Green
Greenbelt, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of fentanyl in the Accokeek, Maryland area. <br> <br> District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced OJ Rashad Green, 36, aka "Ice,ââŹÂ of Accokeek, Maryland, to nine years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of fentanyl in the Accokeek, Maryland area. <br> <br> Kelly O. Hayes, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, announced the sentence with Spe
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Reginald Davis
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank theft.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jemel Maurice Lyles, aka Mauricio Lyles
Greenbelt, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud.
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Christian Ramos
Baltimore, Maryand, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder and related offenses.<br> <br> Christian Ramos, 28, of Aurora, Illinois was charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder and related offenses. Ramos, who also faces a separate firearm charge in Cecil County.<br> <br> Shortly before midnight on June 18, 2025, troopers from the Maryland State Police Golden Ring Barrack responded to southbound I-83 near Sha
View VerdictCarolyn Hall v. Sheppard Pratt Health System, Inc.
Baltimore, Maryland, civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff title VII failure to accommodate theory.<br> <br> Under Title VII, an employer must provide for a religious accommodation unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the employer, a standard that the Supreme Court recently clarified in Groff v. DeJoy, 600 U.S. 447 (2023).<br> <br> In this case, Carolyn Hall was terminated from her employment at a hospital after she refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19 during the height
View VerdictUnited Stetes of American v. John Robert Bolton,II
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer is representing the Defendant eight counts of unlawful transmission of national defense information as well as 10 counts of unlawful retention of national defense information. <br> <br> 18:793(d) TRANSMISSION OF NATIONAL DEFENSE INFORMATION<br> (1-8) <br> 18:793(e) RETENTION OF NATIONAL DEFENSE INFORMATION<br> (9-18)<br> <br> Department of Justice Press Release:<br> <br> "A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging former National Sec
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Charles Anthony Boatwright
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder.<br> <br> <img width="300" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G21sbJMWMAAnAjK?format=jpg&name=small"><br> <br> Charles Anthony Boatwright, age 55, was accused of killing Randolph Smith, age 56. Smith was shot and killed on July 13, 2025 in the 3900 block of Frederick Avenue.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jean Brown
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking.<br> <br> From at least 2000 until 2010, Jean Brown ran a marijuana trafficking organization that transported large amounts of marijuana from Arizona and California to Maryland for distribution in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and Washington, D.C. Brown used tractor trailers and car carriers to transport the money to the West Coast and the marijuana back to the East Coast. Brown's shipmen
View VerdictState of Maryland v. William Cook, Jr.
Anapolis, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder.<br> <br> William Cook, Jr., age 68, was accused of killing Garnet Elizabeth Griffith, 1989.<br> <br> Griffith was found dead in her apartment from a gun shot wound.
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Kamryn Andrews, James Lawson, and Travis Lissau
Centreville, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with manslaughter, assault and reckless endangerment.<br> <br> Kamryn Andrews, 19, of Seaford, Delaware; James Lawson, 20, of Queenstown, Maryland; and Travis Lissau, 27, of Centreville, Maryland, were accused of shooting of a 19-year-old at a house party in Maryland.<br> <br>
View VerdictState of North Dakota v. Isiah Simms
Bismarck, North Dakota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual assault of a child.<br> <br> Isiah Simms was accused of sexually assaulting child on the state Capitol grounds.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Daniel Michael Harris
Greenbelt, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with four armed robberies while using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. <br> <br> U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Daniel Michael Harris, Sr., 44, of Waldorf, Maryland, to 14 years in federal prison for committing four armed robberies while using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.<br> <br> Kelly O. Hayes
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Rashad Green aka ââŹĹIceââŹÂ
Greenbelt, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of fentanyl.<br> <br> District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced OJ Rashad Green, 36, aka "Ice,ââŹÂ of Accokeek, Maryland, to nine years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of fentanyl in the Accokeek, Maryland area. <br> <br> Kelly O. Hayes, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, announced the sentence with Special Agent in Charge Christophe
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Amir Barnes-Henderso
Baltimore, Maryalnd, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with First-Degree Murder and multiple related charges in connection with the fatal shooting of Gary Lee Matthews, age 34. Assistant State's Attorney Elizabeth Stock prosecuted this case.<br> <br> On November 21, 2024, at approximately 5:22 p.m., a Northeast District Patrol Officer with the Baltimore Police responded to reports of a shooting at 4900 Block of Frankford Avenue. Upon arrival, officers found the victim,
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Kamal Khalid, Fnu Shahrukh
Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy and conspiracy and securities fraud and odometer rollback scheme. <br> <br> Chief Judge George L. Russell, III, sentenced Kamal Khalid, 44, of Pasadena, Maryland, to 36 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after he pled guilty to conspiracy and securities fraud stemming from his role in an odometer rollback scheme. Judge Russell previously sentenced Khalid's younge
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Troy Spencer
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition by a prohibited person, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ç 922(g)(1) (Count 1), and possession of a firearm in a school zone, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ç 922(q) (Count 2). <br> <br>
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Christopher Lawrence Stouffer
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual abuse of a child and possession of child pornography.<br> <br> <br> Federal law aggressively criminalizes and punishes the sexual exploitation of children, primarily through laws found in Title 18 of the U.S. Code.<br> <br> The key statute is 18 U.S.C. ç 2251, which broadly prohibits the use, enticement, or coercion of a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of creating and distri
View VerdictMichael Rentshler v. Atlantic General Hospital Corporation
Baltimore, Maryland personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiffs on a property damage theory.<br> <br> As a comprehensive healthcare services company, AGH collects, maintains, and<br> stores highly sensitive personal and medical information pertaining to its patients, including, but<br> not limited to: Social Security numbers, dates of birth, full names, addresses, telephone numbers,<br> driver's license numbers, information regarding medical treatment, diagnosis, and prescriptions,<br> me
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Marlow Bates, a/k/a Low
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances (drugs).
View VerdictKeeley Olson and Dustin Olson v. A.R.T. Institute of Washington, Inc., et al.
Greenbelt, Maryland, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiffs on medical malpractice claims.<br> <br> In Maryland, a medical malpractice claim requires demonstrating four elements:<br> a duty of care owed by the healthcare provider to the patient, a breach of that duty (deviation from the accepted standard of care), causation (the breach directly caused the injury), and damages (the patient suffered harm). The standard of care is what a reasonably competent provider would do in similar
View VerdictA.A. vMontgomery County Public Schools, et al.
Greenbelt, Maryland, civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Individuals With Disabilities Education Act theory. <br> <br> The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a federal law guaranteeing eligible children with disabilities a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) in the least restrictive environment, ensuring access to necessary special education services from birth through age 21. Key provisions include the creation of Individualized Education Program
View VerdictAshley Brooks v. Berman Management, LLC, et al.
Greenbelt, Maryland, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a Fair Labor Standards Act violation theory.<br> <br> The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes federal standards for minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor for most private and public employees. Key provisions require employers to pay a minimum hourly wage, at least one and a half times the regular rate for hours worked over 40 in a week (unless an exemption applies), and to maintain accurate reco
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Brandon Glen Jackson
Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with traveling across state line while indicted for a state-law felony.<br> <br> Arizona bans short-barreled rifles. Ariz. Rev. Stat. çç 13-3101(A)(8)(a)(iv),<br> 13-3102(A)(3). In December 2020, a Phoenix police officer alleged that Brandon Glen<br> Jackson "knowingly did manufacture, possess, transport, sell, or transferââŹÂ one. J.A. 58.<br> That alleged conduct led state prosecutors to charge Jackson with
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