PER CURIAM:

In 2014, Melchor Calderon was convicted of conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act
robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951; possessing a firearm during a crime of violence,
in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 924(c)(1)(B)(i); conspiracy to distribute cocaine, in violation
of 21 U.S.C. § 846; and kidnapping, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 1201(a). Calderon filed
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Charleston, West Virginia defendant was charged with sexual assault and kidnapping.

Gerald Wayne Davis, age 26, and, his father Dewey Davis, were charged with abducting, sexually abusing and sexually assaulting a woman.


The Supreme Court of Appeals for West Virginia described the case against Davis as follows:

"The charges against the appellant arose primarily from ... More...    $0 (12-31-1986 - VA)

Alexandria, Virginia criminal law lawyers represented Defendants charged with kidnapping and murder of two adolescent boys in 2016.

MS-13 gang members Elmer Zelaya Martinez, Ronald Herrera Contreras, Henry Zelaya Martinez, Pablo Velasco Barrera, and Duglas Ramirez Ferrera, along with their co-conspirators, targeted E.E.E.M., a 17-year-old resident of Falls Church, who they erroneously su... More...    $0 (11-04-2022 - VA)

Newport News, Virginia criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with making more than 60 threats to murder, rape, torture and otherwise harm state and federal elected officials, including numerous members of Congress and a former President of the United States.

Steve Cochran, 43, repeatedly threatened to murder, kidnap, torture, and/or rape elected officials and their loved ones.... More...    $0 (10-13-2022 - VA)

Alexandria, Virginia criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs and other felonies.

A federal jury convicted four defendants on numerous charges relating to a murder, a violent gang enterprise, and a drug trafficking conspiracy operating in Virginia, California, and several other states.

According to court records and evidence pres... More...    $0 (05-06-2022 - VA)

Richmond, Virginia kidnapping criminal defense lawyer represented, Devon Allen Odell Scott, who was charged with kidnapping and carjacking of a woman.

According to allegations in the indictment, on Sept. 18, 2019, Devon Allen Odell Scott, 38, of Edgewood, abducted a woman for the purpose of committing a sexual assault on and robbery of that same victim, and after traveling from Maryland t... More...    $0 (12-04-2020 - VA)

Michael Maynes raises various assignments of error arising from his trial and
convictions for four counts of sex trafficking by use of force, fraud, or coercion in
violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a) and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking in
violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1591(a) and 1594(c). For the reasons that follow, we affirm the
convictions.
I.
Michael Maynes w... More...    $0 (01-18-2018 - VA)

Scott Cammorto pleaded guilty to knowingly failing to register in Virginia as a sex offender, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2250. Based on his underlying conviction in Georgia for rape, the district court sentenced Cammorto as a Tier III offender pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 2A3.5(a)(1) and thus imposed an enhanced sentence of 41 months’ imprisonment. Cammorto now challenges the district court’s reliance ... More...    $0 (06-13-2017 - VA)

“When considering a challenge to the sufficiency of evidence on appeal, we review the
evidence in the light most favorable to the prevailing party at trial and consider all inferences
fairly deducible from that evidence.” Jones v. Commonwealth, 276 Va. 121, 124, 661 S.E.2d
412, 414 (2008).
In February of 2014, Conner Sullivan, a student at the Virginia Military Institute
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In 2012, while seventeen years old, appellant was adjudicated delinquent for two instances
of violating Code § 18.2-248(G), possession with intent to distribute imitation cocaine. The
violations of Code § 18.2-248(G) would have been non-violent felonies if appellant had been an
adult when he committed the offenses. Appellant does not dispute that he was over the age of
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In 2013, Marlon Flores-Granados pled guilty to a single-count indictment for illegal reentry into the United States following deportation and a conviction for an aggravated felony. See 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a), (b)(2). He now challenges his sentence, specifically the 16-level enhancement that was applied pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines § 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(ii) for prior conviction of a ... More...    $0 (01-06-2016 - VA)

In early 2010, a group of seven Somalis — including defendants Mohamed Ali Said, Mohamed Abdi Jama, and Abdicasiis Cabaase — boarded a small skiff and entered the Gulf of Aden (in the Indian Ocean between the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa), intending to seize a merchant ship at sea. Their objective was foiled by the British warship HMS Chatham, which was conducting a counter-piracy miss... More...    $0 (08-14-2015 - VA)

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Colombian man extradited to the Eastern District of Virginia pleaded guilty today for his involvement in the kidnap and murder of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent James Terry Watson in Bogotá, Colombia, on June 20, 2013.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, ... More...    $0 (09-04-2014 - VA)

Petitioner Tobia Romero Quitanilla, a native of El Salvador, sought discretionary relief from removal by way of a special rule cancellation under the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act of 1997 (the “NACARAâ€�).1 An Immigration Judge (the “IJâ€�) denied Quitanilla’s request, ruling that he was ineligible for relief because of the “persecutor bar,â€� codified at 8 U.S.C. Â... More...    $0 (07-14-2014 - VA)

The United States of America charged Ahmed Muse Salad, Abukar Osman Beyle and Shani Nurani Shiekh Abrarpiracy under the law of nations in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1651; conspiracy to commit kidnapping in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1201; Use, carry, possess and discharge a firearm during and in relation to and in furtherance of the commission of a crime of violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. 924; Conspira... More...    $0 (08-03-2013 - VA)

Andrea Morrison (“motherâ€�) appeals the Floyd County Circuit Court’s refusal to register and enforce a Michigan divorce decree, dated September 17, 2003, awarding her sole legal and physical custody of her daughter, J.M., born October 14, 2002. Mother contends the reason given by the court in refusing to register and enforce the decree is not among the reasons listed in the Uniform Child Cust... More...    $0 (02-08-2011 - VA)