Spokane, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Assaulting His Intimate Partner with a Firearm and Attempted Witness Tampering

Nespelem Man Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Assaulting His Intimate Partner with a Firearm and Attempted Witness Ta... More...    $0 (07-03-2025 - WA)

Spokane, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Robbery Affecting Commerce and one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute 30 Grams or More of Fentanyl
Spokane Man Involved in Robbery of Large Amount of Methamphetamine and Fentanyl Sentenced to F... More...    $0 (10-10-2024 - WA)

Spokane, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiring to Accept Kickbacks in Connection with Fraudulent Telemarketing Scheme
Ohio Doctor Sentenced for Conspiring to Accept Kickbacks in Connection with Fraudulent Telemarketing Scheme that Harmed Me... More...    $0 (08-07-2024 - WA)

Tacoma, Washington personal injury wrongful death lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on civil rights violation theories claiming that Tacoma Police Officers Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins and Masyth Ford used excessive force when they attempted to arrest him in 2021.

The Complaint:

Plaintiffs, MONET CARTER-MIXON as Personal Representative of the ESTAT... More...    $4000000 (07-11-2023 - WA)

Tacoma, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins and Timothy Rankine who were charged with murder for killing Manuel “Manny� Ellis, who was killed by the Tacoma police officers.

The Pierce County Medical Examiner ruled that Ellis, a black man, was murdered.

2.1 Plaintiff Monet Carter-Mixon: Monet Carter-Mixon (“Ms. Carter-Mixonâ€�)... More...    $0 (12-21-2023 - WA)

Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with for persistently dealing drugs while armed.

Jade Alexander Beavin was caught three different times, twice with distribution amounts of narcotics while also carrying firearms. Beavin is prohibited from possessing firearms due to a lengthy criminal history. At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Rich... More...    $0 (10-20-2023 - WA)

Tacoma, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with trafficking large amounts of fentanyl and methamphetamine while armed with a handgun.

Erick Guerrero-Acosta was arrested November 22, 2022, with 14 kilos of fentanyl powder and pills and seven kilos of methamphetamine. At the sentencing hearing U.S. District Judge Benjamin H. Settle cited the “graveâ€� conse... More...    $0 (08-28-2023 - WA)

Richland, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant with Conspiracy to Distribute 50 Grams or More of Actual (Pure) Methamphetamine, 400 Grams or More of Fentanyl, and 5 Kilograms or More of Cocaine.

Jose Mendoza-Ruelas, age 38, was part of a large drug trafficking organization that involved a legitimate landscaping business used to cover up the organization’s drug traffi... More...    $0 (05-04-2023 - WA)

Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with drug trafficking while armed with multiple firearms.

Santos Gutierrez-Fosella, age 24, of Mount Vernon, Washington, was indicted with two others on March 30, 2022. Robert Johnny was purchasing pills from Gutierrez-Fosella. He was sentenced in January 2023, to six years in prison. A third co-defendant, Steven Lo... More...    $0 (03-29-2023 - WA)

¶ 1 We are asked to determine whether any rational trier of fact could have convicted Donovan Allen of aggravated first degree murder upon the evidence properly admitted in this case.   Allen confessed to killing his mother but challenges, among other things, the sufficiency of the evidence that this killing was premeditated and aggravated by robbery.   We affirm.

FACTS

¶... More...    $0 (11-30-2006 - WA)

At 12:58 p.m. on February 7, 2000, 18-year-old Donovan Allen called 911 and reported that he found his 49-year-old mother, Sharon Cox, injured and bleeding on the floor of her bedroom in Longview, Washington.

Emergency personnel were unable to revive Cox. An autopsy later showed that she had been struck four times in the head with a blunt object and manually strangled. There were signs of... More...    $0 (12-31-2002 - WA)

Spokane, Washington criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with Possession with Intent to Distribute 500 or More Grams of Methamphetamine and two counts of Felon in Possession of a Firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), which provides:

(g) It shall be unlawful for any person—

(1) who has been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a t... More...    $0 (10-18-2022 - WA)

Yakima, Washington criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of Ammunition in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2), which provide:

(a) It shall be unlawful—

(1) for any person—

(A) except a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer, to engage in the business of importing, manufacturing, or dealin... More...    $0 (08-26-2022 - WA)

Seattle, Washington criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. 911(g)(1), which provides:

(g) It shall be unlawful for any person—

(1) who has been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;

(2) who is a fugitive from justice;

(3) wh... More...    $0 (02-17-2022 - WA)

Spokane, Washington criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with three counts of second-degree murder.

Clifton Frank Peter, agte 37, of Wapato, Washington, is an enrolled member of the Confederated Bands and Tribes of the Yakama Nation and has a violent criminal history. In 2011, he was convicted in Yakima County Superior Court of First-Degree Robbery with a Deadly Weapon and Theft ... More...    $0 (08-24-2022 - WA)

Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented defendants charged with engaging in a Ponzi-like scheme that defrauded customers of millions of dollars.

Bernard Ross Hansen, 61, aka Ross B. Hansen was convicted of multiple counts of wire and mail fraud after a four-week jury trial in July 2021. Hansen’s co-defendant and partner, Vault Manager Diane Renee Erdmann, 49, was conv... More...    $0 (06-06-2022 - WA)

Seattle, Washington criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with
fraud and identity theft.

A 33-year-old Seattle man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to three years in prison for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Kevin Antoine Jones used information from a bank insider so that he and his underlings coul... More...    $0 (01-19-2022 - WA)

Pocatello, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of ammunition by a prohibited person.

Jason Richard Sandoval, 46, of Albuquerque, was contacted by Bannock County Sheriffs deputies on May 7, 2020 near Yoxall Road in Downey, Idaho. Sheriff’s deputies responded to a call that Sandoval was claiming to have a bomb and acting erratically. Deputies attemp... More...    $0 (12-17-2021 - WA)

Spokane, Washington criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with carjacking and felon in possession of a firearm.

Kyle Steven Scott Cate, age 30, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, was charged with Carjacking and Felon in Possession of a Firearm following Cate’s guilty pleas to two federal indictments earlier this year.

Ac... More...    $0 (12-02-2021 - WA)

Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm during civil unrest and looting in downtown Seattle.

A 33-year-old Kent, Washington man was indicted for being a felon in possession of a firearm during civil unrest and looting in downtown Seattle. Al M. Talaga was arrested in September 2020, following an investigation... More...    $0 (08-18-2021 - WA)

Seattle, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with for being a felon in possession of a firearm during civil unrest and looting in downtown Seattle.

Al M. Talaga, age 33, was arrested in September 2020, following an investigation of events that began June 1, 2020. At the sentencing hearing today U.S. District Judge James L. Robart told him, “You can’t have... More...    $0 (08-13-2021 - WA)

Tacoma, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with second degree murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Bobbie Anson Pease, age 52, admited that in September 2018, he used a baseball bat and gun to murder a 34-year-old woman on federal land, part of Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM).

According to the plea agreement, Pease was sharing a ho... More...    $0 (07-30-2021 - WA)

Spokane, WA: CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Company (CHPRC), a prime contractor at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, has agreed to pay $3,038,270 million to resolve allegations that CHPRC violated the False Claims Act by submitting false and fraudulent small business subcontract reports.

In 2008, CHPRC, a Washington subsidiary of CH2M Hill Companies Ltd., which is headquartered in... More...    $0 (06-09-2021 - WA)

Seattle, Washington "Molotov Cocktail" possession charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Kelly Thomas Jackson, age 21, who was charged with unlawful possession of a destructive device in violation of 26 U.S.C. 2561 and 5845.

Jackson was arrested in September 2020 when he was identified as the person who used Molotov cocktails to burn two Seattle Police vehicles in downtown ... More...    $0 (04-01-2021 - WA)

Peterson also challenges his sentence of 48 months’ imprisonment imposed for being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). The district court concluded that Peterson’s prior conviction for firstdegree robbery was a “crime of violence” as that term is defined by U.S. Sentencing Guidelines (“Sentencing Guidelines” or “U.S.S.G.”) section 4B1.2(a) which, along with ... More...    $0 (09-10-2018 - WA)

On remand from the United States Supreme Court we are tasked with deciding whether the unlawful entry into a residence by two sheriff’s deputies, without a warrant, consent, or exigent circumstances, was the proximate cause of the subsequent shooting and injuries to the plaintiffs. We hold that it was, permitting a federal claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. We also hold that the plaintiffs have an inde... More...    $4000000 (07-29-2018 - WA)

Spokane, WA - Pasco Drug Dealer Sentenced to Life Imprisonment

Miles Barton Nichols, age 59, of Pasco, Washington, was sentenced after having been convicted after two separate jury trials in October, 2017, of one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute 50 Grams or more of pure Methamphetamine, one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute 5 Grams or more of pure Methamphetamine,... More...    $0 (03-19-2018 - WA)