Florida Verdicts & Court Cases
8,392 verdicts, settlements, and court decisions from Florida.
United States of America v. Bryan Steven Etheridge
Jacksonville, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making false statement to a federally licensed firearms dealer. Reported by Kent Morlan On May 10, 2025, Bryan Steven Etheridge, age 40, Lake City, Columbia County, Florida, attempted to purchase a .40 calib
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jon Christopher Enriquez
Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with transmitting a threat through interstates communications in violation of 18 U.S.C. 875(c). Reported by Kent Morlan Jon Christopher Enriquez, 47, of Miami, used the social media platform X to post multiple public thr
View VerdictState of Florida v. Christopher Chiofalo
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged wtih burglary, third-degree grand theft, and criminal mischief of $1,000 0r more. Digested by: Kent Morlan
View VerdictState of Florida v. Cassandra Thompson, aka Cassandra Costentine
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with Third-degree grand theft, money laundering unlawful proceeds, unlawful use of a communications device, and a computer offense involving fraud. Digested by: Kent Morlan State of Florida v. Cassandra Thompson, aka Ca
View VerdictState of Florida v. Stephen Floyd
Bradenton, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a felony. Reported by Kent Morlan Detectives entered the Defendant's house without a warrant. The Defendant moved to suppress the evidence obtained during a warrantless search of his residence. The Circuit
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Landon Dashawn Wilson
Tallahassee, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing and distributing drugs and unlawful possession and transportation of a machine gun. Reported by Kent Morlan The Tallahassee Police Department responded to a call regarding a possible burglary or ass
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Tajmir Wyles
Tampa, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with robbery of a postal mail carrier and receipt, possession or concealment of stolen property of the United States. Reported by Kent Morlan On May 15, 2023, Tajmir Wyles, age 32, from New Jersey, robbed a postal letter
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Angelo Martino
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring with Blackcat/ALPHV (BlackCat) actors to extort multiple victims, as well as conspiring with other former cybersecurity professionals to attack additional victims in 2023. Reported by Kent Morlan Angelo
View VerdictState of Florida v. Eric Desmond Parrish
Pensacola, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual battery with force, battery, and false imprisonment. Reported by Kent Morlan Parrish raped his 53-year-old foster mother when he was 16. Under Florida’s Criminal Punishment Code, the permissible sente
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Scott Robinson
Pensacola, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represents the defendant charged with drug alteration. Reported by Kent Morlan Scott Robinson, 51, of Pace, Florida, via his website, advertised and sold the animal drug toltrazuril to customers across the United States. Under the Federal Food, Drug,
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Gina Mr. and Diego Ramirez-Aldana
Tampa, Florida, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with robbery. Reported by Kent Morlan Gina Parra-Martinez (age 39) and Diego Ramirez-Aldana (age 29) and others robbed a jewelry vendor who was visiting Tampa to sell her jewelry at an exhibition at a hotel near the Uni
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Moises Lima Junior
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegally voting in violation of 18 U.S.C. §611. Reported by Kent Morlan
View VerdictState of Florida v. Rubin Goodson
Tallahassee, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. Reported by: Kent Morlan Rbein Goodson was charged with first degree murder. This court has long held that the state cannot supplement the record in an appeal of an order summarily denying a postcon
View VerdictState of Florida v. Nicolette Keough
Pensacola, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with criminal mischief. Reported by: Kent Morlan Nicholette Keough, age 31, allegedly "peed" on furniture in an an Airbnb in Pensacola.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Lauren Hornbuckle
Tampa, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempt to tamper with consumer products. Reported by: Kent Morlan Lauren Hornbuckle, ate 37, of Seminole, Fllorida, was a Florida-licensed registered nurse who worked at Hospital #1. Between November 2023 and March
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Kenia Marrero and Joan Navarro Bruguet
Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants engaged in a conspiracy to obtain and sell Medicare beneficiary identifier numbers (BINs) of thousands of patients for use in Medicare fraud schemes. Reported by: Kent Morlan Kenia Marrero, 46, of Miami, paid Joan Navarro Bruguet
View VerdictState of Florida v. Patricia Barberena
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with child neglect with physical in jury. Reported by Kent Morlan Patricia Barberena, 62, a school bus driver failed to assure that all the kids on her bus had been delivered to their schools and, as a result, one of them
View VerdictState of Florida v. Natasha Ethel Bagley
Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with carjacking, aggravated assault with a weapon, criminal mischief, grand theft and battery. Reported by Kent Morlan Natasha Ethel Bagley, 49, of Hialeah, accused to attacking an rideshare driver and damaging his vehicle
View VerdictState of Florida v. Open AI and Sam Altman
Carterville, Florida, commercial litigation lawyers represent the Defendants on four counts of deceptive and unfair trade practices, two counts of negligence, two counts of violating product liability laws, one count of fraudulent misrepresentation and another count of causing a public nuisance.
View VerdictState of Florida v. Jordan Alexander Bustillo
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with grand theft, organized scheme to defraud and obtaining property by gaming. Reported by Kent Morlan Jordan Alexander Bustillo, age 20, accused for cheating people in an rigged street gambling game in downtown Miami th
View VerdictState of Florida v. Nurideen Shabazz, aka DeenTheGreat
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with assault and battery. Reported by: Kent Morlan Twenty-five-year-old Misfits boxer Nurideen Shabazz, aka DeenTheGreat, accused of assaulting and battering woman on a yacht with whom he had a relationship after she spo
View VerdictState of Florida v. Pylip Vionov and Anton Levkun
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant's charged with placing a credit card scanning device on a credit card point-of-sale machine. Reported by Kent Morlan Pylip Vionov, age 45, and Anton Levkun, age 41, from Ukraine “placed a skimming device on a credit card poin
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Peter Daniel Ring
Gainesville, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sending multiple threatening interstate communications to kill or cause physical injuries. By Kent Morlan In June 2025 the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) received a complaint that a threat to kill a re
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Rebecca Stewart Vaughn
Tampa, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with four counts of wire fraud and one count of theft of government money. By Kent Morlan Rebecca Stewart Vaughn, age 64, Tampa, Florida, engaged in a fraud scheme to obtain Social Security benefits and City of New York
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Roody Metelus
Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with preparing and submitting false tax forms to support more than 200 fraudulent loan applications under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). By Kent Morlan
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Erasme Catalino Paulino Rodriguez, Joseito Diaz De Oleo, and Ober Alexander Villavicencio Jimenez
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to import more than 5 kilograms of cocaine into the United States 21 USC 963. By Kent Morlan Erasme Catalino Paulino Rodriguez, 35; Joseito Diaz De Oleo, 48; and Ober Alexander Villavicencio Jimenez, 36
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Joel Rufus French
Tampa, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States Government, mail fraud, and money laundering. By Kent Morlan Joel Rufus French, age 47 of Armory, Mississippi, engaged in a conspiracy to defraud of the United States. Fre
View VerdictState of Florida v. Rafael Jorge Gonzalez-Sintes
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with f shooting or throwing a deadly missile, culpable negligence, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. By Kent Morlan Rafael Jorge Gonzalez-Sintes, age 61, accused of throwing furniture out of his high rise apartme
View VerdictState of Florida v. Craig Edward Leeks
Dade City, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second-degree murder and improper exhibition of a firearm. The State charged Leeks with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated assault. His defense counsel moved to have him evaluated for competency, and th
View VerdictState of Florida v. Joseph Luther
Perry, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with multiple felonies. The trial court orally pronounced concurrent life sentences for Counts I and II, but the written order states that the sentences are to be served consecutively. The State correctly concedes error.
View VerdictState of Florida v. Christopher Diez
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charge with enticement of a minor for sex and battery. Miami-Dade County Sheriff Lieutenant Chirstopher Diaz allegedly attempt to meet a minor in Delray Beach to have sex.
View VerdictState of Florida v. Walter Afitt Garcia
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with felony littering and misdemeanor failing to obtain an environmental permit. Walter Afitt Garcia, 48, opened gate for a dump truck driver seeking to get rid of a load of landscaping debris at an "illegal dumping transfer
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Marcus Bernard Clark
Orlando, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud and related access devices fraudulently used with fifteen or more unauthorized devices and aggravated identity theft. Marcus Bernard Clark, age 31, of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, worked at a Wendy’s fast food
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Colleen Kieran
Orlando, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud. Colleen Kieran, age 57, of Clermont, Florida, oversaw the accounting department of a business based in Seminole County. Over the course of nearly 13 years, Kieran used her position to siphon more than $3.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Boise Cascade
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with Lacey Act Trafficking. The Boise Cascade Company (Boise Cascade) was accused of felony violation of the Lacey Act for its role in a timber trafficking scheme to evade countervailing and anti-dumping duties. “Boi
View VerdictState of Florida v. Yamilet Alfonso
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with grand larceny. Yamilet Alfonso, age 36, accused of being a porch pirate and stealing $2,200 in packages from one victim's porch.
View VerdictState of Florida v. Lazaro Miranda-Alonso
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with engaging in a scheme to defraud Walmart. third-degree grand theft, and five counts of using a false or fraudulently obtained receipt in Florida to request a refunds. Lazaro Miranda-Alonso, age 26, was a homeless Walmart
View VerdictState of Florida v. Mauricio Jimenez
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Jimenez, 48, of Hialeah, Florida, was a Home Depot Manager. He is accused providing discounts to “a core of accounts” and that the “high markdown activity” at his old store stopped once he left, and �
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Christopher Ashley Defilippis
Tampa, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing fentanyl that resulted in a person's death and possession of fentanyl with the intent to distribute.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Mario G. Davis
Tallahassee, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base, carrying a firearm during a drug-trafficking crime, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Marlo G. Davis, 47, of Havana, Florida, appeare
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Joseph Elegele, Jr.
Orlando, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering. Between August 2017 and June 2023, Joseph Elegele, Jr. (41, Orlando) was part of a fraud scheme that laundered funds that had been fraudulently obtained from various businesses
View VerdictState of Florida v. Gabriela Saldana
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with making threats on WhatsApp to kill or do bodily injury. Saldana “made a threat to kill or do bodily harm” in posts about “a scheduled event” in a WhatsApp group chat.
View VerdictState of Florida v. Lubby Navarro
Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with third-degree grand theft. Former Miami-Dade School Board Vice Chair Lubby Navarro, age 51, was accused of using a school district credit card to run up about $100,000 in personal purchase. The state alleged that Navarr
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Howard Neil Martin
Tallahassee, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession and distribution of drugs and possession of a machine gun. The Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a report about a burglary in progress. When they arrived, Howard Neil Martin, 46,
View VerdictErica Lynn Odom v. James Calas Cole
Crawfordville, Florida, family law lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking a protective order. Plaintiff’s petition alleged that she and Defendant had been in an on-again, off-again relationship and had lived together. She also alleged that after an argument with Defendant, called the police
View VerdictState of Florida v. Edgar Hunez
Crestview, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a felony. Fla. R. App. P. 9.140(b)(2)(A)(i) (providing that a defendant may not appeal after a guilty or nolo contendere plea except for an expressly reserved appeal of a “prior dispositive order of the lower t
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Ronald St. Clair
Fort Myers, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted tax evasion. Ronald St. Clair attempted to hide his assets from the IRS after accumulating tax debts for 2011 through 2017. In 2020, after the IRS notified St. Clair that it intended to levy his assets t
View VerdictState of Florida v. Joseph Sanderson
Milton, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with violation of conditions for suspended sentence. Joseph Sanderson violated probation. 2 must make such findings. We reject the argument and affirm Appellant’s judgment and sentence. Appellant was on sex-offende
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jasen Butler
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud, forgery, and money laundering. Jasen Bulter, age 38, of Jupiter, the owner of Independent Marine Oil Services LLC, corrupted the competitive bidding process for military fuel contracts and submitted dozens
View VerdictState of Florida v. Jaylyn Coleman
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with grand theft. Jaylyn Coleman, age 29, accused of stealing a gold chain valued at %more than$18,000. The defend attempted to sell the chain but was told it was fake by the jeweler.
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