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United States of America v. Jason Todd Topping

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with receipt and possession of child pornography. Jason Todd Topping, age 53, reported to be in possession of child pornography. The Mobile Police Department (“MPD”) received a walk-in complaint at Mobile Police Department Headquarters. A concerned citizen came to report that she believed that Topping was engagin... More...

(03-31-2026 - AL)
United States of America v. Dustin Cole Mosley and Jason Robert Riel

Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Dustin Cole Mosley, 40, and Jason Robert Riel, 41, created a shell safety services and supplies business, which billed the ARC for fake safety services and supplies purportedly provided to the ARC. Mosley worked as the ARC’s Safety Manager, and it entrusted him to approve invoices ... More...

(03-20-2026 - AL)
United States of America v. Russell Lee Stanley

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with failure to register as a sex offender.... More...

(03-20-2026 - AL)
United States of America v. Russell Lee Stanley

Mobile, Atlanta, criminal defense lawyers Chris Vrieze and Kyle Henderson represented the Defendant charged with failure to register as a sex offender. Russell Lee Stanley, 46, was convicted of Forcible Sexual Intercourse – Rape on October 3, 2011, in Harrison County, Mississippi. He was sentenced to 25 years’ incarceration, with 12 years to serve day-for-day, and the remaining 13 years su... More...

(03-10-2026 - AL)
United States of America v. Dustin Cole Mosley and Jason Robert Riel

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Dustin Cole Mosley, 40, and Jason Robert Riel, 41, created a shell safety services and supplies business, which billed the ARC for fake safety services and supplies purportedly provided to the ARC. Mosley worked as the ARC’s Safety Manager, and it entrusted him to approve invoices ... More...

(02-27-2026 - AL)
United States of America v. Detrick Spelton

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire frau.... More...

(02-21-2026 - AL)
United States of America v. Ruben Wilson Mero-Vera

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine on board a vessel.... More...

(02-11-2026 - AL)
Robert Earl Rome v. Ashley M. Richard, et al.

Mobile, Alabama, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights violation theory.... More...

(02-10-2026 - AL)
United States of America v. Wilson Robert Mero-Castro, Ruben Wilson Mero-Vera and Gabriel Cruz-Joya

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine on board a vessel An individual may not knowingly or intentionally manufacture or distribute, or possess with intent to manufacture or distribute a controlled substance on board a vessel of the United States or a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States; 46:70506(b) C... More...

(01-30-2026 - AL)
United States of America v. Braxton A. Thomas,

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug-trafficking organization responsible for distributing hundreds of pounds of cocaine and pure methamphetamine. Braxton A. Thomas, 38, led an extensive drug-trafficking organization (“DTO”) from 2021 to 2024. Thomas’s DTO distributed various drugs, including cocaine and pure methamphetamine, in the Mobile ... More...

(01-16-2026 - AL)
United States of America v. Nicholas Ferlando Haynie

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute Cocaine and Heroin. Following a trial in September 2025, a federal jury convicted an Arkansas man of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Nicholas Ferlando Haynie, 45, of Camden, Arkansas, was a member of a dru... More...

(12-29-2025 - AL)
Jennifer Votaw v. State Farm Fire and Casulty Company

Mobile, Alabama insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a bad faith breach on insurance contract theory. AI Overview Alabama's bad faith insurance law allows policyholders to sue insurers who unreasonably deny or delay valid claims, requiring a contract breach and no "reasonably debatable" reason for denial, opening insurers to damages beyond policy limits, including punit... More...

(12-23-2025 - AL)
United States of America v. Erika Day

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with methamphetamine possession with intent to distribute and firearm use attendant to a drug crime. In her written plea agreement with the government, Erika Kelley Day provided an undisputed factual resume. Deputies with the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office arrested Day in a drug bust after the Office received a tip tha... More...

(12-23-2025 - AL)
State of Alabama v. Jeffery Blackston

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with capital murder and sexual torture. Blackston broke into the home of Troy Barnhill on Jan. 3, 2021. Barnhill was asleep in his bedroom when Blackston began to beat him with a metal pipe, then sexually tortured him with the pipe. Barnhill suffered severe internal injuries and lacerations to multiple organs. "The fa... More...

(12-19-2025 - AL)
United States of America v. Rashawn Anthony Robinson-Mills

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with theft of mail, bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Rashawn Anthony Robinson-Mills, 25, admitted that between August 2023 and January 2024, he traveled along the Gulf Coast breaking into blue U.S. Postal Service letter boxes and stealing mail. Robinson-Mills broke into multiple boxes at several locations in A... More...

(12-19-2025 - AL)
Leonard L. Hixon v. Premier Medical Group, Inc.

Mobile, Alabama, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a medical malpractice claim. On December 5, 2022, Leonard L. Hixon underwent a medical procedure at the Springhill Medical Center to remove a mass that had developed on the right side of his face. Dr. Kent L. Burton and other medical professionals performed the procedure. Afterward, Hixon allegedly suffered complications, inc... More...

(12-12-2025 - AL)
United States of America v. Logan Smith

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation and attempted enticement of a minor. Logan Smith, age 38, first came to law enforcement attention following a report that he had been distributing child pornography via the internet. Further investigation revealed that he had been communicating with a minor victim living out of state over a peri... More...

(12-11-2025 - AL)
United States of America v. Justin Brian Melton

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine. See 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(A), and ... More...

(11-20-2025 - AL)
State of Alabama v. David Smith

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer is represented the Defendant charged with capital murder because it allegedly happened during a burglary, another capital murder charge because the child present was less than 14 years of age, and another capital murder charge of two or more persons. David Smith was accused of breaking into a women's shelter and shot the mother of his child. ... More...

(11-11-2025 - AL)
State of Alabama v. Todd Bond

Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with larceny for engaging in porch piracy. Todd Bond was accused of theft of package from peoples' porches.... More...

(11-03-2025 - AL)
State of Alabama v. Marcus Cobbs and Cameron Hall

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyers will be representing Defendants accused of engaging in criminal enterprise and gang activities. Marcus Cobbs, 23, and Cameron Hall, 19, were arrested in November after a drug bust at Cobb's home.... More...

(10-29-2025 - AL)
United States of America v. Preston Buie

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Preston Buie was pulled over for following too closely behind a semi-truck. Within minutes, the officer who stopped him became suspicious that something criminal was afoot—he had US... More...

(10-20-2025 - AL)
United States of America v. Nikequis Lachristopher Green

Mobile, AL criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm. Defendant-Appellant Nikequis LaChristopher Green pled guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). Green's guilty plea came on the heels of three prior convictions for two violent felonies and one serious drug offense: Green was ... More...

(09-10-2025 - AL)
United States of America v. Nikequis Lachristopher Green

Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm. Defendant-Appellant Nikequis LaChristopher Green pled guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). Green's guilty plea came on the heels of three prior convictions for two violent felonies and one serious drug offense: Green... More...

(09-10-2025 - AL)
Henry R. Seawell, III and Kathryn D. Seawell v. Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company

Mobile, Alabama insurance law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on bad faith breach of insurance contract theories. In 2002, the Seawells purchased a supplemental cancer insurance policy from Colonial.1 The policy is intended to supplement traditional health insurance policies and cover additional costs of cancer treatment. The parties contest the meaning of the par... More...

(08-19-2025 - AL)