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State of Vermont v. Ramone Hosten
Burlington, Vermont, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated domestic assault. Defendant was charged with two offenses-first-degree aggravated domestic assault in violation of 13 V.S.A. § 1043(a)(1) and domestic assault in violation of 13 V.S.A. § 1042- alleging assaults of the complainant on or about September 19, 2025. The State applied for and obtained an ... More...
(02-01-2026 - VT)United States of America v. Christopher Rantanen
Burlington, Vermont, criminal defense lawyer Lisa Shelkrot represented the Defendant charged with felony possession and transportation of firearms and ammunition.... More...
(02-01-2026 - VT)United States of America v. Geison Reynoso
Burlington, Vermont, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and cocaine base. From 2023 until April 25, 2024, Geison Reynoso, 27, of Springfield, Massachusetts, and Davon Lee, age 26, also of Springfield, engaged in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and cocaine base in Rutland County, Vermont. In February 2024, law enforcement seized tw... More...
(12-31-2025 - VT)United States of America v. Samuel Alfaro-Sanchez
Burlington, Vermont, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegally reentering the United States after having been found in the District of Vermont on August 13, 2025, without any lawful status to be in the country. Alfaro-Sanchez, illegally entered the United States on numerous prior occasions. In 2008, Alfaro-Sanchez voluntarily returned to Mexico after having been ... More...
(12-19-2025 - VT)United States of America v. Carlos Nonoal-Cano
Burlington, Vermont, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with transportation of illegal aliens. On December 16, 2025, agents from U.S. Border Patrol received a notification of border crossing on the Vermont-Canada border and received an image of individuals crossing the snow-covered border on foot taken that evening. When Border Patrol agents conducted a search of the rem... More...
(12-19-2025 - VT)United States of America v. Theodore Bland
Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represent the Defendant charged with murder. Theodore Bland, 30, pleaded not guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Burlington to capital crime charges brought against him in a new indictment returned by a grand jury last month, accusing him of firing the shots that killed the two men.... More...
(12-12-2025 - VT)State of Vermont v. Aaron Loucks
Burlington, Vermont, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defenant charged with aggravated disorderly conduct and a hate crime. Aaron Loucks, age 32, of Burlington, Vermont was accused for engaging in disorderly conduct and yelling racial slurs at a black neighbor.... More...
(11-21-2025 - VT)United States of America v. Kayla Ramos
Burlington, Vermont, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with knowingly possessing with intent to distribute cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin. Google A.I. 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) and (b)(1)(C) is a federal statute that makes it unlawful to knowingly possess a controlled substance with the intent to distribute it, or to manufacture or distribute it. The... More...
(11-10-2025 - VT)State of Vermont v. Aaron Loucks
Burlington, Vermont, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of aggravated disorderly conduct. Prosecutors added a hate crime. Aaron Loucks, 32, of Burlington, with two counts of aggravated disorderly conduct. Prosecutors added a hate crime enhancement to one of the charges and say Loucks was yelling racial slurs at one of his neighbors, who is Black.... More...
(10-30-2025 - VT)State of Vermont v. Aaron Loucks
Burlington, Vermont, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated disorderly conduct, one of which is being considered a hate crime after he allegedly shouted racial slurs at children and neighbors. Aaron Loucks, age 32, was accused threatening neighbors and law enforcement.... More...
(10-10-2025 - VT)United States of America v. Christopher Boisvert
Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of Bank Robbery and stipulated to the commission of a second bank robbery and an attempted robbery of a marijuana dispensary The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont stated that on September 30, 2025, Christopher Boisvert of Swanzey, New Hampshire was sentenced by Ch... More...
(09-30-2025 - VT)State of Vermont v. Aaron Badeau
Burlington, Vermont, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with selling drugs. On September 30, 2025, at approximately 10:30 AM, the Burlington Police Department’s Drug Unit, Emergency Response Unit, and members of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) conducted a coordinated operation in City Hall Park. This operation was part of an ongoing drug investigati... More...
(09-30-2025 - VT)United States of America v. Brittany Fields
Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with selling, distributing, or dispensinv fentanyl.... More...
(09-30-2025 - VT)United States of America v. Christopher Boisvert
Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank robbery by force or violence. ... More...
(09-30-2025 - VT)Tom Daley, et al. v. Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
Burlington, Vermont consumer law lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a fraud theory. This was a class action lawsuit against Defendant Toyota Motor North America, Inc. ("Toyota" or "Defendant") by Plaintiffs on behalf of themselves and a class of current and former owners and lessees of model year 2022-2024 Toyota Tundra and Toyota Tundra hybrid vehicles (the "Class Vehicles" or "Vehicl... More...
$1 (09-30-2025 - VT)United States of America v. Richard Bailey Jr.
Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Illegal Possession of a Firearm St. Albans Man Charged with Illegal Possession of a Firearm ... More...
(09-12-2025 - VT)Robin O'Neill v. Nicholas Deml
Burlington, Vermont Plaintiff pro se without counsel sought a writ of habeas corpus. Robin O’Neill, who is serving a life sentence for a double homicide, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont (Sessions, J.) dismissing her pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus made pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district cour... More...
(08-29-2025 - VT)State of Vermont v. Aaron Williams
Burlington, Vermont Criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with road rage assault and battery. Aaron Williams, 44, allegedly passed the victim's car on Mallet's Bay Avenue on Tuesday, cut in front of them, and braked suddenly while still in traffic. ... More...
(08-29-2025 - VT)United States of America v. Travis Limlaw
Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with knowingly possessed a firearm as an unlawful user of and addicted to a controlled substance.... More...
(08-21-2025 - VT)Guadalupe Garcia Olivo v. Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
Burlington, Vermont pro se Plaintiff without a lawyer surged on an immigration law theory.... More...
(08-21-2025 - VT)United States of America v. Daniel McSwiggan
Burlington, Vermona criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with managing and controlling a residence and making the residence available for the purpose of unlawfully manufacturing, storing, distributing, and using cocaine base, a Schedule II controlled substance. Rutland, V... More...
(08-05-2025 - VT)United States of America v. Rahm Klampert
Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, and fentanyl. Hartford, Vermont Man Charged with Drug Crime ... More...
(08-05-2025 - VT)United States of America v. Nasir Hussain
Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Submitting Fraudulent Immigration Application Indian Citizen Convicted of Submitting Fraudulent Immigration Application After a two-day trial before Unit... More...
(04-25-2025 - VT)United States of America v. Serhat Gumrukcu
Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Serhat Gumrukcu Convicted of Murder-for-Hire After a five-we... More...
(04-18-2025 - VT)United States of America v. Owin Thomas
Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possession with Intent to Distribute Cocaine Base and Fentanyl New York Man Sentenced to 70 Months for Possession with Intent to Distribute Cocaine Base and Fentanyl ... More...
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