Virginia First Amendment Law
<h2> <center> United States of America v. Jose Alejandro Belmonte Cardozo </h2> </center>
Alexandria, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of a child in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2251(a). Border searches do not require a warrant to be reasonable. And if a border search is routine, individualized suspicion is not required either. But law enforcement may not conduct a nonroutine border search without individualized suspicion. Unde... More...
$ (07-13-2026 - VA)<h2> <center> Josue Ariel Fuentes v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services </h2> </center>
Alexandria, Virginia immigration lawyer represented the Plaintiffs who sued in federal district court asserting two challenges: (1) an Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”) challenge to USCIS’ interpretation of the exclusion clause such that it excludes any individual who was granted SIJ status from ever conferring immigration benefits on their natural or adoptive parents; and (2) a consti... More...
$ (07-24-2026 - VA)<h2> <center> Commonwealth of Virginia v. Jasmine Irene Janae Meade </h2> </center>
Hampton, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, brandishing a firearm, shooting a firearm within 1,000 feet of school property, and three counts of child endangerment. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new"... More...
$ (07-03-2026 - VA)<h2> <center> Commonwealth of Virginia v. Devon Lamar Washington </h2> </center>
City of Fredericksburg, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing a controlled substance, simultaneously possessing a firearm and a controlled substance with the intent to distribute, illegally possessing a machine gun, and carrying a concealed weapon. On September 28, 2023, the Fredericksburg Police Department received several complaints regarding c... More...
$ (04-24-2026 - VA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Brian Lamont Turner </h2> </center>
Charlottesville, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with prostitution racketeering and transporting prostitutes. On multiple occasions throughout 2023 and 2024, Brian Lamont Turner, 45, caused multiple adult victims to travel from the Commonwealth of Virginia to the States of North Carolina and South Carolina for the purpose of engaging in prostitution and other... More...
$ (04-23-2026 - VA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Brian Lamont Turner </h2> </center>
Charlottesville, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with racketeering prostitution and transporting prostitutes. On multiple occasions throughout 2023 and 2024, Brian Lamont Turner, 45, caused multiple adult victims to travel from the Commonwealth of Virginia to the States of North Carolina and South Carolina for the purpose of engaging in prostitution and othe... More...
$ (04-15-2026 - VA)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Soufiane Bougria </h2> </center>
Harrisonburg, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assaulting his then-girlfriend with a hatchet while camping in the Shenandoah National Park. On the night of August 24, 2025, Soufiane Bougria, 31, and his then-girlfriend (Victim 1) were camping at the Mathews Arm Campground in the Shenandoah National Park. Three different park visitors testified that they ... More...
$ (03-24-2026 - VA)United States of America v. CarMax, Inc.
Fairfax, Virginia, commercial litigation lawyers represented the Defendant accused for violating the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) by illegally repossessing motor vehicles owned by members of the military. The Justice Department alleged that CarMax repossessed servicemember vehicles without obtaining court orders as required by federal law, as well as repossessed some vehicles even af... More...
$ (02-24-2026 - VA)Commonwealth of Virginia v. Willie Holmes
Roanoke, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder. Willie Holmes accused of shooting and killing a woman in a Roanoke Rapids parking lot.... More...
$ (02-09-2026 - VA)<H2> United States of America v. Joseph Edward Ramey
Abingdon, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant in a revocation of supervised release procediing. “A district court has broad discretion when imposing a sentence upon revocation of supervised release. [We] will affirm a revocation sentence if it is within the statutory maximum and is not plainly unreasonable.” United States v. Patterson, 957 F.3d 426, 436 (4th Cir. 2... More...
$ (12-31-2025 - VA)United States of America v. Bavonte J. Cole
Richmond, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.<br> <br> While patrolling alone at night, Officer Dquan Walker saw Coe sitting in the driver's seat of a car parked just outside the entrance to a convenience store known for "drug activity . . . inside and outside of the store.†JA 106. Coe was holding plastic baggies... More...
$0 (11-13-2025 - VA)Abigail Zwerner v. Ebony Parker, et al.
Newport News, Virginia personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a gross negligence claim.<br> <br> Abigail Zwerner, a first-grad teacher in Newport News, Virginia was shot by a 6-year-old student who brought his mother's gun to class in January 2023. She sued Ebony Parker claiming that the assistant principal failed and refused to respond to four separate reports from staff members t... More...
$0 (11-06-2025 - VA)State of Virginia v. Stephen Smerk
Alexandria, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder.<br> <br> Stephen Smerk, age 53, was accused of killing Robin Lawrence, age 27, who was killed in 1994.<br> <br> Detectives using DNA from the crime scene were able to identify Smerk as the killer.<br> <br> Investigators turned to Ellen Greytak, director of bioinformatics at Parabon NanoLabs, a... More...
$0 (10-26-2025 - VA)United States of America .v James B. Comey, Jr.
Alexandria, Virginia, criminal defense lawyers are representing the Defendant charged with:<br> <br> Count 1:<br> 1. On or about September 30, 2020, in the Eastern District of Virginia, the defendant, JAMES<br> B. COMEY JR., did willfully and knowingly make a materially false, Fictitious, and<br> fraudulent statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the<br> Governme... More...
$0 (10-13-2025 - VA)Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. The County of Fairfax, Virginia, et al.
Fairfax, Virginia civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff challenging the constitutionality of the so-called sensitive places doctrine, which allows the government to restrict the presence of firearms in certain locations.<br> <br> A Fairfax County ordinance prohibits "[t]he possession, carrying, or transportation of any firearms, ammunition, or components or combination thereof†in va... More...
$0 (08-27-2025 - VA)George Hawkins v. Glenn Youngkin, et al.
Richmond, Virginia civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a First Amendment violation theory.<br> Virginia's Constitution automatically strips individuals convicted of felony offenses<br> of the right to vote but vests in the Governor the discretionary power to restore those rights.<br> George Hawkins, previously convicted of a felony, petitioned to have his voting rights<br> restored. S... More...
$0 (08-22-2025 - VA)<H2> United States of America v. Keith Rodney Moore
Richmond, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal possession of a firearm.<br> <br> When Richmond, Virginia, police officers observed a vehicle with the temporary license tag number 11134Y, they concluded that it was a fake tag because, within the preceding hours, they had stopped two other vehicles with the identical temporary tag number. The officers activ... More...
$0 (08-04-2025 - VA)Joel Aaron Burrell v. S. Shirley, Correctional Officer, et al.
Alexandria, Virginia personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a prisoner civil rights claim.<br> <br> Under 28 U.S.C. § 1915, federal courts may permit an indigent prisoner to proceed without prepaying filing fees or giving security. The legal term for proceeding this way is in forma pauperis. But Congress expressed concern that prisoners were filing many "frivolous lawsuits floodin... More...
$0 (07-03-2025 - VA)Commonwealth of Virginia v. Jacob Ryan Tolley
Lexington, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug possession.<br> <br> On April 4, 2022, officers from the Botetourt-Rockbridge Regional Drug Task Force (the "Task Force") conducted surveillance of a home located at 36 Edgewood Drive in the City of Lexington. Members of the Task Force had been sworn in as Special State Police Officers ("SSPOs") with the Virgin... More...
$0 (02-25-2025 - VA)Commonwealth of Virginia v. Jose Roberto Gomez Contreras
Alexandria, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with "rape, oral sodomy, and animate object sexual penetration ('OSP'), as well as two counts of custodial indecent liberties.<br> <br> K.I.C. was born in El Salvador to Maritza Contreras, appellant's sister.[3] When K.I.C. was two years old, her mother left El Salvador and travelled to the United States. K.I.C. remain... More...
$0 (02-18-2025 - VA)Commonwealth of Virginia v. Jimi Argedis Salgado
Manassas, Virginia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with malicious wounding.<br> <br> Ilka McCoy and Salgado were in a romantic relationship and lived together until May 2021. By August 2021 they had broken up, lived separately, and McCoy was dating Oscar Lucas. Nevertheless, McCoy and Salgado contacted each other "every couple days" in an effort to remain friends and bec... More...
$0 (02-24-2025 - VA)Commonwealth of Virginia v. Anthony Leroy Brannon
Stuart, Virginia, criminal defense represented the Defendant assault and battery.<br> <br> In February 2023, Heather Burris and Brannon lived together at the Virginian Motel in Patrick County while Brannon was in the area for work. The motel manager, Jesse Christoph, knew Burris and Brannon well, as they had resided at the motel since at least October 2022 and Burris occasionally helped with house... More...
$0 (02-18-2025 - VA)Commonwealth of Virginia v. Isaac Ramirez Rodriguez
Danville, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Dendant charged with rape, aggravated sexual battery, three counts of object sexual penetration, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.<br> <br> Rodriguez was sentenced to two life terms plus 115 years and 12 months with 55 years suspended. On appeal, Rodriguez first challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain his convi... More...
$0 (01-14-2025 - VA)United States of America v. Mynor Esau Jandres Flores
Alexandria, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant who reentered the US after removal.<br> <br> Mynor Esau Jandres Flores was convited of illegal reentry after removal,<br> in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a). He argued on appeal that 8 U.S.C. § 1326 is<br> unconstitutional because it violates the equal protection guarantee of the Fifth Amendment.<br> Specifically, Flores main... More...
$0 (12-24-2024 - VA)Winchester Department of Social Sevices v. Jennifer Elizabeth Jones
<h2><br> Winchester, Virginia family law lawyer represented the Defendant in a parental rights termination case.<br> </h2><br> <br> Mother is the biological parent to two children, H.J. and R.J.[2] The family first came to the Winchester Department of Social Services' (the Department) attention in 2020, when H.J. was born at 25-weeks gestation, and tested positive for fentanyl and marijuana exposu... More...
$0 (01-16-2024 - VA)Gabrielle Barbour v. Merrick B. Garland
<h2><br> Alexandria, Virginia civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff workplace discrimination theory.<br> </h2><br> <br> The Complaint reflects that, prior to her application for employment with the DEA as a Special Agent, Barbour had studied International Politics and Print Journalism at Pennsylvania State University, where she was also a student-athlete. See Complaint ¶ 10. After earnin... More...
$0 (06-24-2024 - VA)K.E.E., et al. v. Dr. Daniel Davidow, et al.
<h2><br> Richmond, Virginia plaintiff personal injury lawyer represented multiple women who sued claiming there was sexually abused while patients at Virginia children's hospital.<br> </h2><br> "A total of 46 former patients sued the Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents in New Kent, which treats vulnerable children, and Dr. Daniel Davidow, the hospital's longtime medical director. In t... More...
$300000000 (10-01-2024 - VA)Yemane Mehari v. Muzit Mesfun-Mehari
<h2><br> Fairfax, Virginia divorce lawyers represented husband and wife in a child support and equitable distribution dispute.<br> <h2><br> <br> Husband and wife married on January 12, 2002, and had three children. When the parties divorced in January 2023, their oldest child was an adult and attending college, while their younger children were seven-year-old twins. One of the twins, A.M., had sev... More...
$0 (07-16-2024 - VA)Commonwealth of Virginia v. Eftakhar Alam
<h2><br> Arlington, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with rape.<br> </h2><br> <br> In 2019, Eftakhar Alam pleaded guilty to rape under a plea agreement that postponed sentencing for three years. The agreement provided that if Alam complied with the conditions imposed during that three-year period, he could withdraw his guilty plea and plead guilty instead to assau... More...
$0 (09-10-2024 - VA)Commonwealth of Virginia v. Steven Nicholas Dawson
<h2><br> Verona, Virginia possession of cocaine criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant.<br> </h2><br> <br> On March 23, 2021, a confidential and reliable informant (CRI) informed former Staunton Police Department Investigator Stuart Green that a man staying in Room 118 at the Skyline Motel had illegal narcotics and a firearm in his possession. She gave Green the man's first name, and he... More...
$0 (09-10-2024 - VA)Commonwealth of Virginia v. Zackary Thomas Burkard
<h2><br> Fairfax, Virginia voluntary manslaughter criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant.<br> <h2><br> <br> <br> This case involves a fight between two groups of South County high-school students that began with heckling over social media and ended in Burkard's committing a double homicide. In April 2021, Burkard and his friend, Nicholas Guidinetti, exchanged combative snapchats with Is... More...
$0 (09-10-2024 - VA)N.S. v. Prince Williams County School Board
<h2><br> Alexandria, Virginia civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff who claimed Defendant failed to protect her son from bullying.<br> </h2><br> <br> <br> Plaintiff N.S. asserts that he is a gay minor and that he suffered "regular and relentless†anti-LGBTQ+ bullying at the hands of his classmates within the Prince William County public schools system and, in particular, at Ronald R... More...
$0 (08-23-2024 - VA)Faiza Ambreen, et al. v. Merrick Garland
<h2><br> Alexandria, Virginia immigration lawyer represented the Plaintiff.<br> </h2><br> <br> This action involves a claim under the Administrative Procedure Act ("APAâ€) seeking review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIAâ€). Before the Court is Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment (ECF 5) and Plaintiffs' Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment (ECF 12). Because the BIA... More...
$0 (08-23-2024 - VA)Commonwealth of Virginia v. Cola Beale
<h2><br> Virginia Beach, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder.<br> </h2><br> <br> On March 22, 2022,Cola Beale killed his girlfriend, Czavier Hill. Police later found his father figure, Clifton Baxter, dead on March 25. Then in Norfolk, on March 28, he killed his cousin Downing McLean. He was arrested in Hampton on March 31. ... More...
$0 (07-02-2024 - VA)Alphonso F. Brown v. United States of America
Norfolk, Virginia personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a Federal Tort Claims act negligence theory.<br> <br> The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) is a United States law that allows citizens to sue the federal government for certain kinds of torts (civil wrongs) committed by its employees. This is a significant exception to the principle of sovereign immunity, wh... More...
$0 (01-04-2024 - VA)United States of America v. Daniel Kemp, Sr.
Defendant Daniel N. Kemp, Sr., was charged with nine counts of sexually abusing his adopted children. Pursuant to an agreement with the government, he pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated sexual abuse, and the remaining charges were dismissed. The district court sentenced Kemp to life imprisonment – a term within the Sentencing Guidelines range adopted by the court – and to ... More...
$0 (12-26-2023 - VA)United States of America v. Santuron Cureton
PER CURIAM:<br> <br> Santuron Cureton pleaded guilty, pursuant to a written plea agreement, to possession <br> of a firearm by a convicted felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1); distribution and <br> possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1); and <br> possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, in violation of 18 U... More...
$0 (12-26-2023 - VA)United States of America v. Melchor Calderon
PER CURIAM:<br> <br> In 2014, Melchor Calderon was convicted of conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act <br> robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951; possessing a firearm during a crime of violence, <br> in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 924(c)(1)(B)(i); conspiracy to distribute cocaine, in violation <br> of 21 U.S.C. § 846; and kidnapping, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 1201(a). Caldero... More...
$0 (12-26-2023 - VA)United States of America v. Jontez McLeod
PER CURIAM:<br> Jontez Xavier McLeod appeals his convictions and 141-month sentence imposed <br> after his guilty plea to carjacking and aiding and abetting, in violation of 18 U.S.C. <br> §§ 2119, 2; and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to, and in furtherance of, a <br> crime of violence and aiding and abetting, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 924(c)(1)(A)(ii), 2. <br> On app... More...
$0 (12-26-2023 - VA)United States of America v. Andy Tovar
PER CURIAM: <br> Andy Tovar entered a plea of nolo contendere to conspiracy to participate in a <br> racketeering enterprise, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d); and conspiracy to commit <br> murder in aid of racketeering activity, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a)(5); and pleaded <br> guilty to a second count of conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering activity, in <br> violati... More...
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