Stephen Michael Taylor v. The State of Texas

Eastland, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Stephen Michael Taylor with a Sexual Assault charge. The victim in this case, for whom the pseudonym “Violet” was used in the indictment, testified for the State. She was seventeen years old at the time of trial. Appellant was Violet’s stepfather and married Violet’s mother when Violet was seven years old. Violet testified that App ... More $0 (03-01-2021 - TX)

Danna Presley Cyr v. The State of Texas

Eastland, Texas - Criminal defense attorney represented Danna Presley Cyr with a Injury to a Child, Elderly or Disabled Individual charge. On the night of the incident, Appellant and her husband, Justin Cyr, were at home near Denver City with their children J.D. and E.P. E.P. was five years old when the incident occurred, and J.D. was only four months old. E.P. testified that she saw Justin in ... More $0 (03-01-2021 - TX)

United States of America v. Tawhyne Patterson and Damon Williams

Lincoln, Nebraska criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with murder, armed robbery and felony possession of a firearm. Tawhyne Patterson, Sr. and Damon Williams. Patterson and Williams, both of Lincoln, were charged with two counts of attempted interference with commerce by robbery; using and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence; murder while using a firearm during a cr ... More $0 (03-01-2021 - NE)

United States of America v. Warren Dion

Pierre, South Dakota criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with assaulting a federal officer. Warren Dion, age 22, was charged with assaulting, resisting, opposing and impeding a federal officers. The maximum penalty upon conviction is up to 20 years in federal prison and/or a $250,000 fine, three years of supervised release, and $100 to the Federal Crime Victims Fund. Restituti ... More $0 (03-01-2021 - SD)

United States of America v. Abdimanan Bana Habib

Fargo, North Dakota criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with civil disorder in violation of 18 U.S.C. 231. Bana Habib, age 21 of Fargo, was charge with Civil Disorder, 18 USC 231(a)(3). On May 30, 2020, Habib participated in riots that erupted in Fargo following George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. What started as peaceful protests in Fargo turned violent when rioters, inclu ... More $0 (03-01-2021 - ND)

United States of America v. Richard Tobin

Newark, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiring with members of a white supremacist hate group to threaten and intimidate African Americans and Jewish Americans by vandalizing minority-owned properties throughout the country in September 2019. Richard Tobin, 19, of Brooklawn, was charged with conspiracy against rights. “Conspiring with others to vanda ... More $0 (03-01-2021 - NJ)

Todd William Barr v. The State of Texas

Eastland, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Todd William Barr with an Arson charge. At about 11:30 a.m. on July 13, 2017, Jill Phillips received a phone call at work from a security company notifying her that an alarm had been triggered for her home at 3717 Trailend Drive in Abilene. A neighbor called Jill’s husband, Raymond John Phillips (John), to inform him that his house was on fi ... More $0 (02-28-2021 - TX)

Juan Ramon Barron v. The State of Texas

Eastland, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Juan Ramon Barron with a Murder charge. A. Evidence at Trial The murders of Bruns and Hoover arose from their encounter with Appellant on January 24, 2016, at approximately 4:00 a.m. at Appellant’s trailer. Later, Appellant and his wife, Nicole, provided law enforcement personnel with detailed versions of what they claimed had occurred duri ... More $0 (02-28-2021 - TX)

Ronald Evan Richardson v. The State of Texas

Eastland, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Ronald Evan Richardson with an Assault charge. Appellant was charged by information with intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causing bodily injury to Hannah Fierros by biting her and/or punching her in the face. The application paragraph of the court’s charge asked the jury to determine if Appellant assaulted Fierros “by biting her and ... More $0 (02-28-2021 - TX)

John Johnson, Jr. v. The State of Texas

Eastland, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented John Johnson, Jr. with a Continuous Sexual Abuse of Young Child or Children charge. In the first count of a two-count indictment, the grand jury indicted John Johnson, Jr., Appellant, for the offense of continuous sexual abuse of a child or children. The grand jury alleged four manner and means by which Appellant committed the offense of cont ... More $0 (02-28-2021 - TX)

United States of America v. Jannice Kristina Laur, Vasean Berioisova Ricks, Jared Trhomas Michelizzi, James Anthony Sierra, Daniel Mathias, Lloyd Joseph Loftis, Corolos Kentrell Smith, Irma Beatrice timmerman, Ronald Ollo Coleman, John Michael Blalock, Sharon Denise McEwen

Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with telemarketing fraud. Jannice Kristina Laur, Vasean Berioisova Ricks, Jared Trhomas Michelizzi, James Anthony Sierra, Daniel Mathias, Lloyd Joseph Loftis, Corolos Kentrell Smith, Irma Beatrice timmerman, Ronald Ollo Coleman, John Michael Blalock, Sharon Denise McEwen were charged with participating in a fraud schem ... More $0 (02-28-2021 - MN)

United States of America v. Justin Troendle

Cedar Rapids, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with failure to register as a sex offender. Justin Troendle, age 34, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was convicted of one count of escape from federal custody. At the plea hearing, Troendle admitted that, in May 2020, he was in custody at the Hinzman Center under a federal court order pursuant to his prior conviction for failure t ... More $0 (02-28-2021 - IA)

Terry Lewis Day v. The State of Texas

Eastland, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Terry Lewis Day with an Indecency with a Child charge. Appellant, Terry Lewis Day, pleaded guilty to the offense of indecency with a child. See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 21.11(a)(2)(A) (West 2019). The trial court deferred the adjudication of Appellant’s guilt and placed Appellant on community supervision for a period of eight years. Near the ... More $0 (02-28-2021 - TX)

Larry Dewayne White v. The State of Texas

Eastland, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Larry Dewayne White with a Murder charge. Karla Martin testified that she was a next-door neighbor of both Appellant and the victim, Kenneth Wayne Williams. Williams first lived in the house, and then Appellant moved in with Williamssometime later. Mrs. Martin testified that, around 5:30 a.m. on the morning of April 29, 2017, she was awakened ... More $0 (02-28-2021 - TX)

David Lee Trevino v. The State of Texas

Eastland, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented David Lee Trevino with a Poss With Intent to Deliver Methamphetamine charge. Appellant was initially detained when agents with the Abilene Police Department Special Operations Division executed a search warrant for narcotics at a known “dope house.” Appellant was not identified as a suspect in the search warrant, but he was arrested at th ... More $0 (02-28-2021 - TX)

Ex parte Paul Torres

Eastland, TX - Paul Torres has filed a pro se notice of appeal that relates to an application for writ of habeas corpus that was filed in the trial court and sent to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. The documents on file in this cause indicate that Torres’s appeal relates to an application for writ of habeas corpus that was filed pursuant to Article 11.07 of the Texas Code of Criminal Pr ... More $0 (02-28-2021 - TX)

Joseph Robert Ellis, Jr. v. The State of Texas

Eastland, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Joseph Robert Ellis, Jr. with a Poss of a Controlled Substance charge. Officer Gary Roberts, a K-9 officer with the Stephenville Police Department Narcotics Unit, was conducting surveillance on a residence he knew to be Appellant’s home when he observed a red Ford compact car leave the property. Officer Roberts was familiar with the car beca ... More $0 (02-28-2021 - TX)

Stacie Michelle Moore v. The State of Texas

Eastland, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Stacie Michelle Moore with a Delivery of a Controlled Substance charge. In August 2016, Joe Aaron Taylor, a narcotics detective with the Brownwood Police Department, began investigating the distribution of methamphetamine by Brittany McDonough after receiving information of McDonough’s involvement in the distribution of methamphetamine. Dete ... More $0 (02-28-2021 - TX)

United States of America v. Adam Brent Branton

Davenport, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charge with Distribution of 50 Grams or More of Methamphetamine. Adam Brent Branton, age 39, of Burlington, was charged with Distribution of 50 Grams or More of Methamphetamine and 120 months in prison for Felon in Possession of a Firearm. The investigation of Branton began in February 2020 when law enforcement identified Branton as a ... More $0 (02-28-2021 - IA)

United States of America v. LaShawn DJames Hensley

Davenport, Iowas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm. LaShawn DJames Hensley, age 28, originally of Silvis, Illinois, to was charged with being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm. The investigation of Hensley began in 2018 when Hensley was driving eastbound on Interstate 74 in Bettendorf approaching the Mississippi River. While crossing the b ... More $0 (02-28-2021 - IA)

Richard Darnell Amos v. The State of Texas

Eastland, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Richard Darnell Amos with a Delivery of a Controlled Substance charge. On March 31, 2017, Agent John H. Murphy of the Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division began an investigation into the distribution of methamphetamine by Appellant. Agent Murphy conducted an undercover investigation that included controlled purc ... More $0 (02-27-2021 - TX)

Dlijawon McMaryion v. The State of Texas

Eastland, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Dlijawon McMaryion with a Aggravated Assault charge. On April 4, 2018, Appellant went to the apartment of the victim, Austin Haynes. Appellant and Haynes had been friends for approximately ten years. Witnesses presented conflicting testimony as to the reasons for the meeting; however, Haynes ultimately suffered a gunshot wound to his left le ... More $0 (02-27-2021 - TX)

In re Kevin Earl Scott

Eastland, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Kevin Earl Scott with a filing the original petitions for writ of mandamus. Relator, Kevin Earl Scott, filed these original petitions for writ of mandamus in which he requests that we instruct the Honorable Don Gosnell, presiding judge of the City of Cross Plains Municipal Court, to transmit Relator’s notice of appeal to this court and to ... More $0 (02-27-2021 - TX)

Joshua Bradley Jeffer v. The State of Texas

Eastland, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Joshua Bradley Jeffer with a Sexual Assault charge. The indictment charged Appellant with two counts of sexual assault of K.J. Appellant was charged in count one with intentionally and knowingly causing the penetration of the female sexual organ of K.J. with Appellant’s hand, without K.J.’s consent; the indictment alleged that Appellant c ... More $0 (02-27-2021 - TX)

Eagle Supply & Manufacturing L.P. f/k/a Eagle Construction & Environmental Services, L.P. and Metex Demolition, LLC v. Landmark American Insurance Co. and Seneca Specialty Insurance Co.

Eastland, TX - Contract attorney represented with a Eagle Supply & Manufacturing L.P. f/k/a Eagle Construction & Environmental Services with m the denial of two motions for summary judgment brought by Landmark and Seneca with respect to Eagle’s claims.. The underlying lawsuit arises from damage claims that Eagle originally asserted against Metex for demolition, cleanup, and remediation wor ... More $0 (02-27-2021 - TX)

Kristi Jones a/k/a Kristi Alaniz v. The State of Texas

Eastland, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Kristi Jones a/k/a Kristi Alaniz with a Burglary of a Habitation charge. In her first issue on appeal, Appellant claims that the evidence is insufficient to prove the required mens rea for theft because there was a bona fide dispute as to the ownership of the personal property involved. Appellant asserts in her second 2 issue on appeal that ... More $0 (02-27-2021 - TX)

William Len Rainey v. The State of Texas

Eastland, TX - William Len Rainey, pro se, filed a notice of appeal from the denial of a motion to recuse.. The clerk of this court wrote Appellant on November 9, 2020, and informed him that it did not appear that the order denying the motion to recuse was an appealable order. We requested that Appellant respond and show grounds to continue the appeal. We have received a response from Appellant ... More $0 (02-27-2021 - TX)

Joe Antonio Luna v. The State of Texas

Eastland, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Joe Antonio Luna with a DWI charge. The jury convicted Joe Antonio Luna of the offense of felony driving while intoxicated as enhanced by two prior misdemeanor DWI convictions: one from 1980 and the other from 1989. See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. §§ 49.04, 49.09(b)(2). The State alleged two prior felony convictions for enhancement purposes. Appel ... More $0 (02-27-2021 - TX)

Leo Brito v. The State of Texas

Eastland, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Leo Brito with an Aggravated Assault charge. The grand jury indicted Appellant for “intentionally, knowingly and recklessly caus[ing] serious bodily injury to JORGE MORALES, by cutting, stabbing, and slashing him” with “a deadly weapon, to-wit: a knife.” In its witness list, the State included Morales among those it intended to call d ... More $0 (02-27-2021 - TX)

United States of America v. Joseph L. Smith

Kansas City, Missouri receiving child pornography charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Joseph L. Smith, 48, who was charged failure to register as a sex offender he was convicted in 1992 for forcible oral sodomy of an 8-year-old female. Smith was also convicted of failure to register as a sex offender in 2001. On Oct. 15, 2020, Smith pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography ... More $0 (02-27-2021 - MO)

United States of America v. Elijah Moore

St. Louis, Missouri attempted murder criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Elijah Moore. 38-year-old, from Warrenton, Missouri who was charged with two counts of attempting to kill a federal officer, one count of discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence and one count of carjacking. On July 29, 2019, a Task Force Officer (TFO) with the U.S. Marshals Service went to a r ... More $0 (02-27-2021 - MO)

United States of America v. Patrick Wayne Watson and Kennan Dane O'Bier

El Dorado, Arkansas identity theft charge criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants, Patrick Wayne Watson, age 24, and Kennan Diane O'Brier, age 24, who were charged with mail fraud and identity theft. According to court records, between August of 2018 through January 31st of 2019, Watson, who was employed at a local bank, used his position at the bank to review personally identifiable info ... More $0 (02-27-2021 - AR)

United States of America v. Richard Holzer

Denver, Colorado hate crime charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Richard Holzer, age 28, who was charged with attempting to obstruct persons in the enjoyment of their free exercise of religious beliefs, through force, attempting to use an explosive or fire, attempting to damage and destroy a building used in interstate commerce by means of fire and explosives and use of fire and/o ... More $0 (02-27-2021 - CO)

State of Oklahoma v. Farrell Lee Deal

Tulsa, Oklahoma kidnapping criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, charged with: Count # 1. Count as Filed: KID, KIDNAPPING, in violation of 21 O.S. 741 Date of Offense: 12/16/2020 Party Name Disposition Information DEAL, FARRELL LEE Disposed: DISMISSED, 02/26/2021. Dismissed by Court Count as Disposed: KIDNAPPING(KID) Violation of 21 O.S. 741 Count # 2. Count as Filed: ABDGR, ASSAU ... More $0 (02-26-2021 - OK)

State of Oklahoma v. Collin Clarke

Tulsa, Oklahoma second-degree burglary criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, charged with: Count # 1. Count as Filed: BRG2, BURGLARY - SECOND DEGREE, in violation of 21 O.S. 1435 Date of Offense: 12/15/2020 Party Name Disposition Information CLARKE, COLLIN Disposed: CONVICTION, 02/26/2021. Guilty Plea Count as Disposed: AMEND TO BREAKING AND ENTERING WITH INTENT(ENTB) Violation of 2 ... More $0 (02-26-2021 - OK)

State of Oklahoma v. Heather Jenil Ward

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, charged with: Count # 1. Count as Filed: LMFR, LARCENY OF MERCHANDISE FROM RETAILER, in violation of 21 O.S. 1731 Date of Offense: 04/05/2020 Party Name Disposition Information WARD, HEATHER JENIL Disposed: DEFERRED, 02/26/2021. Guilty Plea Count as Disposed: LARCENY OF MERCHANDISE FROM RETAILER(LMFR) Violation of 21 O.S. 1731 ... More $0 (02-26-2021 - OK)

United States of America v. Shelby Lamonte Miller

Davenport, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine Base, Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, and Possession with Intent to Distribute Cocaine Base. Shelby Lamonte Miller, age 52, of Davenport, was charged with Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine Base, Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, and Possession with ... More $0 (02-26-2021 - IA)

State of Oklahoma v. Danyell Reshan Phillips

Tulsa, Oklahoma - Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, who was charged with: Count # 1. UNAUTHORIZED USE OF A VEHICLE, in violation of 47 O.S. 4-102 Date of Offense: 08/30/2020 Party Name Disposition Information PHILLIPS, DANYELL RESHAN Disposed: DISMISSED, 02/26/2021. Dismissed- Prosecution Witness Failed to Appear Count as Disposed: UNAUTHORIZED USE OF A VEHICLE(LA3) Violation of ... More $0 (02-26-2021 - OK)

State of Oklahoma v. Bryan Michael Campbell

Tulsa, Oklahoma - Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, who was charged with: Count # 1. ATTEMPTED LARCENY OF AUTOMOBILE, in violation of 21 O.S. 1720 Date of Offense: 07/23/2020 Party Name Disposition Information CAMPBELL, BRYAN MICHAEL Disposed: DISMISSED, 02/26/2021. Dismissed- Prosecution Witness Failed to Appear Count as Disposed: ATTEMPTED LARCENY OF AUTOMOBILE(LA5) Violation ... More $0 (02-26-2021 - OK)

State of Oklahoma v. Bryan Michael Campbell

Tulsa, Oklahoma - Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, who was charged with: Count # 1. Count as Filed: LA4, POSSESSION OF STOLEN VEHICLE, in violation of 47 O.S. 4-103 Date of Offense: 12/02/2019 Party Name Disposition Information CAMPBELL, BRYAN MICHAEL Disposed: DEFERRED, 02/26/2021. Guilty Plea Count as Disposed: POSSESSION OF STOLEN VEHICLE(LA4) Violation of 47 O.S. 4-103 ... More $0 (02-26-2021 - OK)