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United States of America v. Derrick John Thompson
St. Paul, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent do distribute fentanyl and being a felon in possession of a firearm. On June 16, 2023, a trooper with the Minnesota State Patrol observed a black Cadillac Escalade speeding north on I-35W, traveling at 95 miles per hour in a 55 miles per hour speed zone. The trooper observed the driver, later identified as Derrick John Thompson, 30, abruptly cut across four lanes of traffic to exit the f
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Michael Lewis
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with threatening to murder a Member of Congress. Michael Lewis, age 53, of Minneapolis alled the office of a United States Congressperson and left a voicemail threatening murder. When law enforcement went to Lewis’ apartment to speak with him, he admitted to making the call. Lewis was sentenced on one count of threatening to murder a United States official. This case is the result of an investigation by
View VerdictIn re the Marriage of De’Vondre Ke’ne Campbell V. Nicole Lee Campbell
Shakopee, Minnesota, family law lawyers presented the parties in divorce. On September 4, 2025, respondent De’Vondre Ke’ne Campbell filed a petition for dissolution of the parties’ marriage. On November 10, 2025, respondent filed a motion to order a partial distribution of marital assets from the parties’ joint accounts pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 518.58, subd. 3(b) (2024)
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Abdulkarim Farah
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bribery of a juror in violation of 18 U.S.C. 201, which provides: (a) For the purpose of this section— (1) the term “public official” means Member of Congress, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, either before or after such official has qualified, or an officer or employee or person acting for or on behalf of the United States, or any department, agency or branch of Government thereof, including the
View VerdictState of Minnesota v. Sriudorn Phaivan
Buffalo, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Criminal Sex Conduct-2nd Degree-Victim Under 13. Criminal Sexual Conduct-2nd Degree-Penalty-Stat. Max. (609.343.2(a))
View VerdictState of Minnesota v. Sriudorn Phaivan
St. Paul, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Theft-Take/Drive Motor Vehicle-No Owner Consent.
View VerdictState of Minnesota v. Hernan Cortes-Valencia
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual assault against a child, sexual assault-carnal abuse and four DUIs. Hernan Cortes-Valencia was charged with sexual assault.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jennifer Marie Stately
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with premeditated murder of minor A and B and murder in the course of committing child abuse. On March 15, 2024, Jennifer Marie Stately, 37, attacked and killed two of her young children. The evidence at trial showed that Stately, when alone with the children at their home on Red Lake Nation, assaulted the boys causing numerous injuries and attacked them with a knife. Stately fatally stabbed her older son befor
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Claire Louis Feng
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault on a federal officer resulting in bodily injury. On January 24, 2026, CBP and HSI officers were attempting to establish and maintain a secure perimeter near Nicollet Avenue, between 27th and 28th St. in Minneapolis, following an officer involved shooting. While a CBP officer attempted to arrest an individual who threw a chemical canister toward deployed federal law enforcement officers, Claire Lo
View VerdictUnited States of America v. James Patrick Lyons
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant with interstate transmission of a threat to injury the person of another. James Patrick Lyons, age 45, accused of interstate transmission of threats to injure five federal law enforcement officers on January 18, 2026, On January 14, 2026, in response to an immigration enforcement action, a large group of protesters in Minneapolis vandalized and significantly damaged FBI-owned vehicles, stealing weapons and ammunitio
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jose Alberto Ramirez
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with interstate transmission of a threat to injury the person of another. Jose Alberto Ramirez, age 29, was charged with interstate transmission of threats to injure a federal law enforcement officer on January 15, 2026. According to court documents, on January 14, 2026, in response to an immigration enforcement action, a large group of in Minneapolis vandalized and significantly damaged FBI-owned vehicles,
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Don Lemon
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendant charged with conspiracy agains rights of religious freedom at a place or worship and injuring, intimidating and interfering with the exercise of a right of religious worship. 18:241 provides: If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Anthony Waddell Jefferson and Lester Brown
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Anthony Waddell Jefferson, 37, and Lester Brown, 53, both of Philadelphia, set up businesses in Minneapolis and enrolled as HSS program providers, purportedly to help people with disabilities – including seniors and people with mental illnesses and substance use disorders – find and maintain housing. Rather than provide those services, Jefferson and Brown – who marketed themselves as �
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Paul Johnson, et al.
Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal defense lawyers represented sixteen individual who were accused of violently federal officers and damaging federal property. Gillian Etherington, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who is alleged to have rammed her car into a United States Border Patrol vehicle and drove away. Border Patrol Agents followed Etherington who drove into oncoming traffic and struck an unmarked law enforcement vehicle near a high school. Etherington refused to comply with Agents’ commands
View VerdictState of Minnesota v. Jake Long
St. Paul, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with damaging a sculpture that said "Prosecute ICE" at the Minnesota State Capitol. Lang claimed he was "exercising my First Amendment right to artistic expression. Jake participated in the January 6, 2021, invasion of the Capitol building in Washington and was pardoned by Trump.
View VerdictState of Minnesota v. Gregory Maurice Oats, Jr.
St. Paul, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first and third-degree sexual assault. Gregory Maurice Oats, Sr. was charged with first- and third-degree criminal sexual conduct, alleging that he sexually penetrated the victim, E.H., on numerous occasions from 2009 to 2011, when she was under the age of sixteen, and from 2011 to 2013 when she was sixteen and seventeen years old. The case was tried to a jury. Oats was represented by court-appointed counsel
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jessica Lynn Larson
St. Paul, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making a false statement. While working as a nurse at FMC Rochester, Jessica Lynn Larson, age 38, had a compromising sexual relationship with an inmate. Larson and the inmate exchanged sexually explicit love letters in which they professed their love for one another and discussed various sexual acts. In April 2024, Larson and the inmate had a sexual encounter. Sexual relationships between staff and inmates are
View VerdictState of Minnesota v. Eric Dione Birth
Winona, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual assault. Eric Dione Birth was a track coach beginning in 2016, then became a PE teacher at Winona Senior High School in addition to being a track coach. Birth was accused of sexually assaulted three different high school students in 2016, 2017 and in 2022.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Aimee Bock
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer John Ellis represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and bribery.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Raul Gutierrez
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant, Raul Gutierrez, charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and theft of government property after breaking into an FBI vehicle and stealing a rifle. “Despite the incitement of violence against federal law enforcement by local officials, which resulted here in the theft of a firearm from an FBI vehicle and the destruction of government property, this United States Attorney’s Office and Department of Just
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Damien William Quinn, also known as Ryan William Shattuck
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with production and attempted production of child pornography and cyberstalking. Damien Quinn owned multiple pseudonymous Snapchat and Instagram accounts that he used to “catfish” minor victims in order to receive sexually explicit photographs and videos. Quinn used these accounts to cyberstalk women who attended North Branch High School with him, claiming he had nude photos of them and sharing nude photos
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Abdimajid Mohamed Nur
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. At trial, Abdimajid Mohamed Nur, age 24, and his co-defendants stole more than $47 million in program funds by claiming to serve 18 million meals to kids at more than 30 food distribution sites. The scheme originated out of Empire Cuisine & Market, a small storefront halal market in Shakopee. Empire Cuisine enrolled in the Federal Child Nutrition Program in April 2020—during the early days of th
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Patrick Carl Timberlake, Jr., a/k/a “King”
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of Distribution of Heroin and Fentanyl. Patrick Carl Timberlake, Jr., a/k/a “King,” age 29, is a drug dealer and a felon who is prohibited from possessing weapons. In 2019 and 2020, Timberlake sold poison—heroin containing deadly fentanyl—to two drug users who took Timberlake’s poison, overdosed, and died. The U.S. Attorney’s Office extends its profound condolences to the families o
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Gregory Hamilton
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with RICO Conspiracy and Premeditated Murder for his involvement in the Highs and the August 8, 2021 murder of Darryl Wells, Jr., an innocent bystander who was mistaken for a gang member. Gregory Hamilton, age 29, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, was a member of the Highs—a criminal enterprise that controlled territory north of West Broadway Avenue in Minneapolis. Evidence at trial proved that members of the Highs c
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Abdinajib Hassan Yussuf, et al.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. In the Autism fraud scheme, Abdinajib Hassan Yussuf, age 27, has been charged by federal information with one count of wire fraud. As set forth in the information, Yussuf and others devised and carried out a scheme to defraud the Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention benefit, a publicly funded Minnesota Health Care Program that offers medically necessary services to people un
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Gregory Hamilton
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with RICO Conspiracy and Premeditated Murder for his involvement in the Highs and the August 8, 2021 murder of Darryl Wells, Jr., an innocent bystander who was mistaken for a gang member. Gregory Hamilton, age 29, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, was a member of the Highs—a criminal enterprise that controlled territory north of West Broadway Avenue in Minneapolis. Evidence at trial proved that members of the Highs c
View VerdictDestiny Dunn v. Donovan W. Frank
Minneapolis, Minnesota, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a job discrimination civil rights violation theory.
View VerdictState of Minnesota v. Marquan Tucker
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer will represent the Defendant charged with two county of second-degree muder.<br> <br> Marquan Tucker, 20, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the death of Patrick Henderson.
View VerdictState of Minnesota v. Brian Russell Lueck
Ottumwa, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree refusal to submit to blood or breath testing for intoxication.<br> <br> This case concerns the constitutionality of Minn. Stat. § 169A.20, subd. 2(2), the test-refusal statute, as applied to a driver who refuses a chemical test where law enforcement obtained a warrant authorizing only one type of test-either blood or urine, but not both. Specifically, we must determine if a prosecution in this circumsta
View VerdictJudith F. Florian v. 3M Company
Minneapolis, Minnesota personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a Personal Injury: Health Care/Pharmaceutical theory.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Lezly Susana De Leon-Sanchez
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
View VerdictAndrew Verch v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company
Minneapolis, Minnesota insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on an E.R.I.S.A. wrongful denial of employee benefits theory.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Anthony John Crowley
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession and distribution of child pornography.<br> <br> <br> Anthony John Crowley, age 52, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer, charged with possession of child porn. <br>
View VerdictMeeka Elliott v. 3M Company, et al.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, personal injury lawyers presented the Plaintiff who who on a product liability theory.<br> <br> AI Overview<br> <br> Minnesota product liability law holds manufacturers, distributors, and retailers accountable for harm caused by defective products under a<br> <br> strict liability standard. This means an injured party does not need to prove negligence, but must show the product was defective (due to design, manufacturing, or failure to warn) and that the defect directly c
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Evan James Oppegard
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interstate threats to injury.<br> <br> 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) is a federal law that makes it a crime to transmit a communication containing a threat to kidnap or injure another person in interstate or foreign commerce<br> <br> . To be convicted, the government must prove the defendant knowingly transmitted the communication with the intent to make a threat or with knowledge it would be viewed as a threat. Penal
View VerdictBrey Mafi v. Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc., et al.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a real property fraud claim.<br> <br> Fraud law refers to the legal regulations that define and punish deceptive activities used to gain an unfair or unlawful advantage, often resulting in financial loss to another person or entity<br> . It applies to both civil and criminal contexts, punishing fraudulent acts and providing victims with legal recourse. Key elements typically include an intentional deception, a misrepres
View VerdictHeather Grazzini-Sims v. Norby Land Corp.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff on an E.R.I.S.A. violation.<br> <br>
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Abdisatar Ahmed Hassan
Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of Attempting to Provide Material Support and Resources to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, announced .<br> <br> Abdisatar Ahmed Hassan, 23, pleaded guilty to one count of Attempting to Provide Material Support and Resources to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.<br> <br> "There is no margin for error when it comes to terrorism,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson.
View VerdictTimothy Fixsen v. National Tax Debt, L.L.C.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, consumer law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Fair Debt Collection Act violation.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Elizabeth Lynne Brinkmann
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribut methamphetamine while on pretrial release.
View VerdictMallani Ferrer v. Best Buy Co., Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a produce liability claim.
View VerdictRamona Cano v. Equifax Information Services, L.L.C.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, consumer law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a Fair Credit Reporting Act violation theory.
View VerdictState of Minnesota v. John Doe
St. Paul, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted murder.<br> <br> John Doe, age 20, attacked and severely battered a woman, age 31, with a table leg on a METRO Green line platform.<br> <br> The woman did not know the attacker.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Abdisatar Ahmed Hassan
Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Attempting to Provide Material Support and Resources to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.<br> <br> Abdisatar Ahmed Hassan, 23, pleaded guilty today to one count of Attempting to Provide Material Support and Resources to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson.<br> <br> "There is no margin for error when it comes to terrorism,” said Acting
View VerdictState of Minnesota v. Talon Covie Cadrell Walker
Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with vehicular manslaughter.<br> <br> Talon Covie Cadrell Walker, 30, was accused for causing an accident that killed Natalie Gubbay and injured others.
View VerdictState of Minnesota v. Johnny Doe
Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.<br> <br> Johnny Doe, a minor, was accused of shooting a man on the 1900 block of Clinton Avenue, two blocks from the park, around 2:42 p.m.
View VerdictBruce Charles Cohen v. Consilio, LLC and Consilio Services, LLC
Minneapolis, Minnesota, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a wage and hour law violation theory.<br> <br> Consilio is a nationwide legal document review company with offices in <br> Minnesota. Cohen began working for Consilio in 2018 as an hourly licensed attorney <br> document reviewer. In July 2019, Consilio sent an email to Cohen and other <br> Minnesota-based hourly licensed attorney document reviewers, explaining that it <br> would be instituting a new premium overt
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Justin Lyle Cutbank
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
View VerdictState of Minnesota v. Dameon Markese Collins
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second-degree intentional murder.<br> <br> Dameon Markese Collins, 24, pleaded guilty to second-degree intentional murder in June and admitted to firing 23 shots at Mr. Woodard in the presence of other people on the street who could have been struck. <br> <br> "Carl should still be with his family, but Mr. Collins' extreme act of violence took that away,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said. "My
View VerdictState of Minnesota v. John Allan Sandeen
Minneapolis, Minnesota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with four counts of terroristic threats made to individuals via email.<br> <br> Mr. Sandeen referred to Charlie Kirk as his "friend” multiple times and promised to commit numerous acts of violence against the targeted individuals as retribution. He also made sweeping threats against "liberal and left-leaning people” as well as people of specific ethnicities and nationalities.<br> <br> "These threats ar
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