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Iowa Jury Verdicts, Settlements and Court Decisions
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United States of America v. Daniel Graben
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with
Arsonist Who Built and Fired Two Improvised Explosive Missiles Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison
A man who had already been conv... More...
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(12-20-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. Devonte Oye Robertson
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Illegally Possessed Multiple Guns
Twenty-Nine-Year-Old Felon who Illegally Possessed Multiple Guns Sentenced to Federal Prison
Devonte... More...
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(12-20-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. Don Christopher White, Jr., et al.
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Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Violent RICO Conspiracy
Nine Quad Cities Men Sentenced to Federal Prison in Violent RICO Conspiracy
Nine Quad Cities men, Don Christopher... More...
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(12-20-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. Anthony James Shearer
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Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Drug and Firearm Charges
Marshalltown Man Sentenced to 17 Years in Federal Prison for Drug and Firearm Charges
A Marshalltown man was c... More...
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(12-20-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. Anthony James Shearer
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Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Drug and Firearm Charges
Marshalltown Man Sentenced to 17 Years in Federal Prison for Drug and Firearm Charges
A Marshalltown man was sentenced on December ... More...
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(12-20-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. Roberto Esquivias-Sandoval
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Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant was charged with illegal reentry and conspiring to distribute controlled substances.
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Evidence of drug sales at Esquivias-Sandoval’s
home supported the finding that he “maintained a premises for the purposes of . . .
distributing . . . controlled substance[s].” U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(12); see Uni... More...
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(12-23-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. Daytrell Washington-Roby
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of ammunition by a felon
Felon Who Pointed a Ghost Gun at Police Officer Returned to Federal Prison
A man who pointed a firearm at a police ... More...
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(12-09-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. Garnett Adam Propst
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Illegally Possessed a Firearm
Twenty-Year-Old Felon who Illegally Possessed a Firearm in Cedar Rapids Sentenced to Federal Prison
A convicted felon who i... More...
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(12-11-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. David Rafael Walker
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Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possessing a Gun
Jury Convicts Cedar Rapids Felon for Possessing a Gun
A man who possessed a firearm as a felon was convicted by a jury today after a three-... More...
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(12-11-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. Johny Fernando Diaz-Mendez
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Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with
South Dakota Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Firearm and Drug Charges
A Sioux Falls, South Dakota man and Guatemalan national was sentenced... More...
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(12-04-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. Anthony Michael Huff; Bobbie Jo Adkins
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Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Firearms Charges
Council Bluffs Individuals Sentenced to Federal Prison for Firearms Charges
Two Council Bluffs individuals were sentenced to federal prison... More...
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(12-04-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. Nevaeh Simone Botts
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Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Distribution of Fentanyl Resulting in Death
Des Moines Woman Sentenced to 12 Years in Federal Prison for Distribution of Fentanyl Resulting in Death
A Des ... More...
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(12-10-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. Luca Joseph Roberts
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Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Fentanyl Distribution
Des Moines Man Sentenced to 144 Months in Federal Prison for Fentanyl Distribution
A Des Moines man was sentenced on November 8, 2024 ... More...
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(12-10-2024 - IA)
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State of Kansas v. Daquan Dean
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Hutchinson, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with battery of a law enforcement officer.
On July 1, 2015, Dean was in the infirmary at Hutchinson Correctional Facility (HCF). Registered nurse Jerry Schmidt was assigned to work in the infirmary. Schmidt testified that Dean was not in good health and had been under observation for possible psycho... More...
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(12-06-2024 - IA)
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Merle D. Brendeland v. Iowa Department of Transportation
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Nevada, Iowa eminent domain law lawyer represented the Plaintiffs on an inverse condemnation theory.
Several individuals owned a tract of land abutting an east-west highway near that highway's intersection with Interstate 35. When the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) announced plans to modernize the interchange between the highway and I-35, these landowners saw a deve... More...
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(11-22-2024 - IA)
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Clay Blanchard v. City of Des Moines
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Des Moines, Iowa personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a governmental tort claims act theory.
Blanchard alleged that the City negligently "created a hazard at the intersection of Fleur Drive (Fleur) and Southlawn Drive (Southlawn) by planting or allowing to grow, oversize vegetation in boxes and in the median between the lanes." He alleged the City the... More...
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(12-04-2024 - IA)
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In the Interest of L.T., Minor Child, A.t., Mother
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Ottumwa, Iowa family law lawyer represented Mother in a termination of parental rights action.
This forty-year-old mother of five children first used methamphetamine when she was just fourteen years old. She has been battling her addiction ever since. In the years before her youngest child was born in September 2022, the mother had her parental rights to two of her children ... More...
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(12-04-2024 - IA)
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In the Interest of A.D.
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Muscatine, Iowa family law lawyer represented the mother in a parental rights termination case.
The mother and father were in an on-and-off relationship for about a decade. When their relationship began, they both lived in Illinois. Of relevance to this appeal, their relationship produced a daughter-A.D.-born in 2020.
Sometime around or after the birth of A.D., the rel... More...
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(12-04-2024 - IA)
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In re the Marriage of Raven T. Mueller and Craig E. Mueller
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Dubuque, Iowa family law lawyers represented the parties in a divorce action.
After sixteen years of marriage, Craig Mueller and Raven Kennicker divorced in December 2020. Under a parenting plan accepted by the court, Craig and Raven agreed to joint physical care of their daughter, L.A.M., born in 2014. Craig also agreed to pay $55 per month in child support, as provided in ... More...
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(12-04-2024 - IA)
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Todd P. Halbur v. Stephen Larson, et al.
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Des Moines, Iowa employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants for wrongful discharge.
Todd Halbur was fired from his position as comptroller of the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division (ABD). Halbur believed he was fired in retaliation for (1) disclosing to his supervisor, Administrator Stephen Larson, the head of ABD, that ABD was operating in viola... More...
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(12-06-2024 - IA)
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United S0ta0tes of America v. Angela Celina Hernandez
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Check Fraud
Waterloo Woman Sentenced to Federal Prison in Check Fraud Scheme
A Waterloo woman who stole nearly $250,000 from three financial institutions... More...
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(12-03-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. Joshua Taylor Watson
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of escape from federal custody.
Minnesota Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Escape from Custody
A man who escaped from custody in the Gerald ... More...
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(12-03-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. Arturo Reyna-Arajo
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Illegally Reentering the United States After Being Deported
Mexican Man Sentenced to Prison for Illegally Reentering the United States After Being Deported
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(12-03-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. Darryl Fonte Jackson
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Cocaine
Cedar Rapids Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Cocaine More...
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(12-03-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. Krystopher Cordeiro
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Cedar Rapids, IA criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possession of Child Pornography
Cherokee County Man Sentenced to 3 Years in Federal Prison For Possession of Child Pornography
Krystopher Cordeiro, age 23, ... More...
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(12-02-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. Quivadas Quadell-Lee Gaines
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Des Moine, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Firearm and Ammunition Charges
Illinois Man Sentenced to 115 Months in Federal Prison for Firearm and Ammunition Charges
A Silvis, Illinois man was sentenced... More...
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(11-22-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v.
Bryan Michael Vannausdle
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Council Bluffs, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with receipt of child pornography.
Creston Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Federal Prison for Child Pornography Charge
A Creston man was sentenced to 20 years i... More...
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(11-26-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. Brent Michael Fisher
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Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Receipt of Child Pornography
Clinton Man Sentenced to 97 Months in Federal Prison for Receipt of Child Pornography
Brent Michael Fisher, 48, possessed fif... More...
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(11-20-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. David Lee Davis, Jr.
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Council Bluffs, IA criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing methamphetamine
Burlington Man Sentenced to 230 Months in Federal Prison for Distributing Meth
David Lee Davis, Jr., 38, distributed approxim... More...
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(11-23-2024 - IA)
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State of Iowa v. Randy Lee Nibaur
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Charles City, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with child sexual abuse.
Following allegations that he sexually abused his granddaughter numerous times while babysitting her, Randy Nibaur pleaded guilty to sexual abuse in the third degree, in violation of Iowa Code section 709.4(1)(b)(2)(d) (2021).
State v. Nibaur, 24-0128 (Iowa App... More...
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(11-13-2024 - IA)
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In the Interest of L.E. and L.E., Minor Children, J.E., Mother
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Indianola, Iowa family law lawyer represented the mother in a parental rights termination case.
Lu.E. a ten-year-old male, and Li.E., a thirteen-year-old female, came to the attention of the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the summer of 2022 because of substance use by their mother. The children were removed from the mother's custody in early June ... More...
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(11-13-2024 - IA)
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State of Iowa v. Ericka Lynn Rankins
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Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with child endangerment.
Following the death of her five-year-old son, Ericka Rankins pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor counts of child endangerment and three felony counts of neglect of a dependent person. For those nine offenses, the district court sentenced her to a prison term not to exceed t... More...
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(11-13-2024 - IA)
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Catherine Smith v. Chad Ragan
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Muscatine, Iowa family law lawyers represented the Plaintiff and Defendant in a child custody dispute.
Seven-year-old T.R. is lucky in many ways. His parents, Catherine Smith and Chad Ragan, are devoted caregivers. Both have confidence in the other's parenting skills. T.R. is doing well in school and for over three years has thrived under the shared-care arrangemen... More...
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(11-13-2024 - IA)
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State of Iowa v. Jeffrey John Flynn
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Dubuque, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with OWI first offense.
Iowa has an implied consent statute governing law enforcement's ability to request and collect bodily specimens in investigating suspected offenses for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated (OWI). The Iowa Code provides that "[a] person who operates a motor vehicle in th... More...
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(11-15-2024 - IA)
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State of Iowa Chad Allen Staton
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Waterloo, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with incest and sexual abuse of his daughter.
Staton was charged and convicted of two counts of sexual abuse in the second degree and incest arising out of the abuse of his daughter L.S. in Waterloo. He was not charged with an underlying sexual abuse of his daughter that took place in Butler C... More...
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(11-15-2024 - IA)
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In the Interest of N.S.N.S.
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Council Bluffs, Iowa civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking the right to own and/or possess a firearm.
Article I, Section 1A of the Iowa Constitution provides:
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The sovereign state of Iowa affirms and recognizes this right to be a fundamental individual right. Any and all restriction... More...
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(11-15-2024 - IA)
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State of Iowa v. Daniel Murillo
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Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant convicted being a sex offender.
Under Iowa Code section 692A.128 (2022), applicants seeking modification of their sex offender registration requirements must meet statutory threshold criteria before a district court may exercise its discretion and approve or reject their application. In this case, the reg... More...
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(11-15-2024 - IA)
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State of Iowa v. Daniel Murillo
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Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant required to register as a sex offender.
Under Iowa Code section 692A.128 (2022), applicants seeking modification of their sex offender registration requirements must meet statutory threshold criteria before a district court may exercise its discretion and approve or reject their application. In this case... More...
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(11-15-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. Craig Carnell Pickens
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine
Fort Dodge Man Guilty of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine
Craig Carnell Pickens... More...
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(11-12-2024 - IA)
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United States of America v. Craig Carnell Pickens
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine
Fort Dodge Man Guilty of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine
Craig Carnell Pickens... More...
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(11-12-2024 - IA)
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