1.A district court is justified in denying a defendant's request for new counsel if there is a reasonable basis for believing the attorney-client relationship has not deteriorated to a point that appointed counsel could not give effective aid in the presentation of the client's defense.

        2. K.S.A. 60-401(b) defines relevant evidence as "evidence having any tendency in reaso

Little Rock, Arkansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with child sex abuse.

The conviction of Myrickki McClendon, age 32, for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl was reversed by the Arkansas Court of Appeals as a result of prejudicial error on the part of the trail judge who refused to allow Defense County to adequately inquire about statements made by victim of t

Myrickki McClendonwas tried by a jury and found guilty of the offense of rape involving a child less than fourteen years of age. His victim, S.S., was eight at the time of the rape and ten at the time of trial. McClendon was sentenced to twenty-five years in the Arkansas Department of Correction, with 540 days' jail credit. The trial court then immediately addressed the petition for revocation of

Little Rock, Arkansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with rape of a child less than fourteen years old.

Myrickki McClendon, a black male, age 32, was accused of sexually assaulting S.S. near the end of September 2009. The girl testified that one morning she tried get McClendon up to make her some breakfast and that she accident touched his penis. She further claim

Phoenix, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with murder.On the evening of June 1, 2000, 18-year-old Drayton Witt dropped off his girlfriend, Maria Holt, at a restaurant in Phoenix, Arizona, where she worked as a waitress. Her son Steven, almost five months old, was asleep in the car seat.
 
Steven’s life had been fraught with medical problems from birth, when

Santa Barbara, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with murder, Robbery, burglary and unlawful entry.
On the evening of February 16, 1986, 49-year-old Thakorbhai Patel, the owner of the Lompoc Motel in Lompoc, California, was shot three times and killed in the motel lobby after walking in on two men who were burglarizing the motel’s untended cash register.

Atlanta, Georgia personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on civil rights violation theories.

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Superior, Wisconsin criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree intentional homicide..

Robert Lee Bennett III, age 42, was accused of fatally stabbing his mother on September 29, 2020 who was stabbed multiple times.

Defendant apparently stabbed his mother because the want to take him to the hospital for mental health care.

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Providence, Rhode Island criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with multiple child pornography felonies.

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London, Kentucky criminal law lawyers represented Defendants charged with rape and sodomy with a child.

Jessica O'Dell, age 28, and Donald Collins, age 23, were charged in February 2021 with having sex with a child.

In 1985, petitioners-appellees, M. Jenny Wilcox and Robert Dale Aldridge, were convicted of several counts of child sexual abuse and related offenses, and were each sentenced to life imprisonment. A full ten years later their convictions were vacated and a new trial was granted by the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas in a civil proceeding brought pursuant to R.C. 2953.21. The state appeals

In the late summer of 1984, the police department in Huber Heights, Ohio began investigation allegations of child molestation in the Glenburn Green low-income housing project.
 
The investigation was launched after a resident, Sheila Hess, alleged that several neighborhood children had engaged in sexual activities with each other. Particularly, she alleged that her six-year-old daughter,

¶ 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.

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On October 4, 1996, 34-year-old Lewis Jackson, an ex-Marine who worked as a youth drug counselor, was shot and killed while sitting in his car in Baltimore, Maryland. 
 
In the days following the shooting, police interviewed several witnesses, including Frances Morgan, who claimed to have seen someone on a bike ride up to the victim's car and shoot him. When shown a photo array, Morgan i

Seattle, Washington criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with production of child pornography.

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Boston, Massachusetts criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with possessing cocaine and fentanyl as well as receiving a firearm while under indictment for felony charges. 

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Greenbelt, Maryland criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with sex trafficking of a minor to engage in commercial sex acts.

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Beaumont, Texas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with illegal immigration after having previously been found illegally in the United States.

Orellana-Villegas pleaded guilty to one count of reentry of deported noncitizen, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) & (b). He had previously been deported in 2015 after he was convicted for sexually assaulting a child in violatio

Alamosa, Colorado criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder and reckless child abuse resulting in death.

Krystal Voss, age 43, was accused of felony child abuse causing the death of Kryan Voss, age 19 months.

The State alleged that the child suffered from shaken baby syndrome.

Kryan was admitted to the Alamosa hospital on January 31,

Georgetown, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with murder.

Michael A. Morton was accused for beating her wife Christine Morton to death during the early morning hours of August 13, 1986.

The State's view of the case can be briefly stated: Morton and his wife had a past history of conflict regarding her personal appearance and her lack of interest in sex

Christine Morton was beaten to death sometime during the early morning hours of August 13, 1986. A jury found her husband, Michael, guilty of her murder and assessed life imprisonment and a $5,000 fine. Tex.Pen. Code Ann. § 19.02 (1974). We will affirm the judgment of the district court.
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The State's view of the case can be briefly stated: Morton and his wife had a past hi

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with child exploitation.

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Anderson, Indiana criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with attempted murder.

Michael McCune was accused of attempted murder for stabbing a friend, Laverne Pflugh, Jr., 13 times at a birthday party that ended in a fight.

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Raleigh, North Carolina criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder.

Justin Merritt was accused of killing Andy Banks.

§ 14-17. Murder in the first and second degree defined; punishment.

(a) A murder which shall be perpetrated by means of a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon of mass destruction as defined in G.S. 14-288.21, po