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United States of America v. Lionel Vallo

Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition and failure to update his sex offender registration.

According to the plea agreement and other court records, Lionel Vallo, age 39, who previously was convicted of aggravated sexual abuse in Indian Country in 2003, failed to update his sex offender re

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United States of America v. Faustino Perez Luna

McAllen, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute 88.5 kilograms of cocaine.

On Nov. 13, 2022, Faustino Perez Luna was driving a tractor trailer loaded with cocaine. The drugs were the priority load of a known drug trafficking organization.

Luna approached the Falfurrias checkpoint and claimed to be headed to Atlanta

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United States of America v. Charles Joseph Raz

Muskogee, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with internet to distribute meth.

On May 9, 2023, Charles Joseph Raz, age 42, of Dallas, Texas, pleaded guilty to Possession with the Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.

During the plea hearing, Raz admitted that on November 27, 2021, he was stopped by a Latimer County Sheriff’s Deputy f

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United States of America v. Nicholas J. Veerkamp

Cincinnati, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sexually exploiting children and possessing child pornography.

Nicholas J. Veerkamp, 32, of Colerain Township, Ohio, was accused of sexually exploited a 9-year-old victim and a 12-year-old victim and kept images of the exploitation.

“This defendant has shown a consistent pattern of sexually abusing chi

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A.L. v. Leon Martin and State of New Mexico

Albuquerque, New Mexico personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued defendants on a New Mexico Tort Claims Act theory.


This case arises out of the alleged rape, assault, battery, false imprisonment, and false arrest of A.L. by Defendant Leon Martin. Doc. 1, Ex. 2 (“Complaint”). Defendant Martin was employed by the Isleta Pueblo Police and was a licensed peace officer co

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United States of America v. Darnell Fulton

Alexandria, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit forced labor and transporting a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution of $979,800 to the victims.

Between June 2016 and May 2019, Darnell Fulton, 39, of Pineville, used violence, sexual abuse, withholding of food, degrad

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United States of America v. Alexander S. Reyes

Houston, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine.

Alexsander S. Reyes, a former Harris County Precinct 1 deputy constable, pleaded guilty Jan. 6, 2022.

Today, U.S. District David Hittner sentenced him to a total of 210 months in federal prison to be immediately followed by

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United States of America v. Jimmie Troy Palmer, III

Del Rio, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

Jimmie Troy Palmer III, 32, and other co-conspirators were arrested on Aug. 1, 2020, after one of the co-conspirators, Bibiana Ira Ortiz, attempted to enter the U.S. through the Del Rio Port of Entry with 16 packages of methamphetamine hidden in her ve

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United States of America v. Samirah Boksmati

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with making false statements in a passport application and three counts of using a passport secured by false statements.

Samirah Boksmati, age 34, made multiple false representations to the U.S. State Department to secure United States passports for herself and her children and then used those passports obt

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Crystal Minnix, et al. v. Sinclair Television Group, Inc., et al.

Roanoke, Virginia personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendants on a slander theory.


In January 2022, the Media defendants broadcast a news segment (the “Segment”) titled “COP'S ROLE IN JANUARY 6 ATTACK DIVIDES VIRGINIA TOWN WITH TIES TO CONFEDERACY.” Compl., ECF No. 1-1, at ¶ 1. Individual Media defendants
Dwyer, Thomas, and Yoo created this Segment,

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Joseph Clifton Smith v. Commissioner Alabama Department of Corrections

Mobile, Alabama federal public defender's claimed that Defendant's Eighth Amendment Rights were violated.

Durk Van Dam was brutally murdered on November 23,
1997. Smith v. Campbell (“Smith III”), 620 F. App’x 734, 736 (11th Cir.
2015). Police found Van Dam’s body in an isolated area near his
pick-up truck in Mobile County. Id. On the same day that police
discov

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Charles Kaleb Vanlandingham v. City of Oklahoma City, et al.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants claiming that
defendants Rolke, Lewis, Morton, and Osten (collectively, “Firefighters”) are employees of the Oklahoma City Fire Department, and Defendant Lee is an Oklahoma City police officer, who responded to an emergency call regarding Plaintiff's decedent, Charles Lamar Vanlandingham (“Mr. Vanla

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United States of America v. Dennis Hebert

Muskogee, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with one count of Aggravated Sexual Abuse in Indian Country.

The United States presented evidence that on July 21, 2021, in McAlester, Oklahoma, the defendant, Dennis Hebert, age 38, of Phenix City, Alabama, engaged in a sexual act with a child under the age of twelve. The government also called another witness who

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United States of America v. Devon Jonathan Souza, a/k/a/ Devon Jonathan Swan

Cheyenne, Wyoming criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a felon and a drug user in unlawful possession of a firearm.

On September 1, 2021, Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers attempted to pull Devon Jonathan Souza, a/k/a/ Devon Jonathan Swan, age 29, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, over based on known warrants. Swan led troopers, police officers, and sheriff’s deputies on

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United States of America v. Perry Maryboy

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with second-degree murder in Indian country.

Perry Maryboy, age 59, of Bluff, Utah, was accused of unlawfully shooting and killing a man during a roadside argument on April 3, 2018.

Maryboy, who was parked on the side of the road at the intersection of Country Road 443 and Summerhouse Road, escalated an ar

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The People v. Trezell and Jacqueline Phillip West

BAkersfield, California criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, two counts of willful cruelty to a child and false report of an emergency.

Trezell and Jacqueline West were accused to causing the deaths of Orrin and Orson West whose bodies have never been found.

001 F PC 187(A)>2ND MURDER:SECOND DEGREE FOUN

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State of Wisconsin v. Phillip Dellar

Oshkosh, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with First-Degree intentional homicide and domestic abuse.

Phillip Dellar was accused of killing his ex-girlfriend, Leianna Mule, by stabbing her 70-times in July of 2021.

The case was prosecuted by Amanda Nash

940.01(1)(a), which provides:

(1)  Offenses.
(a) Except as provided in su

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State of Florida v. Juan Jose Rodriguez

Ocala, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with three counts of lewd, lascivious molestation of a child younger than 12.

Juan Jose Rodriguez, age 61, was three counts of lewd, lascivious molestation of a child younger than 12.

Assistant State Attorney Adam Smith prosecuted the case.

800.04.5AB, which provides:

800.04 Lewd or lasciviou

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State of Michigan v. Henry Jones, Jr.

Kalamazoo, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree felony murder and first-degree child abuse.

Henry Jones Jr., age 18, at the time, was accused of causing the death of 18-month-old Dre’Quan Scott in November of 2020.

The child suffered significant trauma of his head, chest, abdomen, pelvis and back.

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United States of America v. Samirah Boksmati

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with making false statements in a passport application and three counts of using a passport secured by false statements.

Samirah Boksmati, age 34, made multiple false representations to the U.S. State Department to secure United States passports for herself and her children and then used those passports obtai

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United States of America v. Benjamin Morton

Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of a child.

An investigation was begun of Benjamin Morton, age 39, of Nampa, Idaho, when the Boise Police Department (BPD) received information that an adult male, pretending to be a juvenile online, had arranged to meet the 14-year-old victim. BPD later identified Morton as the suspect and determ

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United States of America v. Ramiro Velasco, Jr.

Oakland, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with distribution of more than 50 grams of methamphetamine.

Ramiro Velasco, Jr., age 33, a resident of San Jose, pleaded guilty on January 12, 2023. According to his plea agreement, Velasco attended a meeting in October 2020 of the San Jose Grande (SJG). SJG is a Norteño street gang formed in San Jose in the 1990s

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United States of America v. Richard O'Connor

Santa Ana, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), including at least one video portraying masochistic sexual conduct involving a child.

Richard O’Connor, 45, of Anaheim, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography.

O’Connor formerly was employed as a fourth-grade teacher at Cresce

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United States of America v. Mark Hadland

Cedar Rapids, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Mark Hadland, 49, from Omaha, Nebraska, received the prison term after a February 7, 2023, guilty plea to prohibited person in possession of a firearm. Hadland was previously convicted of felony Theft by Unlawful Taking Over $1500, in the Douglas County District Court f

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United States of America v. Sativa Looking Cloud

Pierre, South Dakota criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with second-degree murder, first degree burglary and felony possession and use of a firearm.

Sativa Looking Cloud, age 21, pleaded guilty on January 18, 2023, to Second Degree Murder and First Degree Burglary.

Stephen Fallis, age 30, pleaded guilty on January 19, 2023, to Possession of a Stolen Firearm and

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