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Commonwealth of North Carolina v. Justin Merritt

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

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Kaleb Ray Russell a/k/a Kaleb Ray Sanderson v. Ashton Paige Weaver

Fort Worth, Texas – Civil Litigation lawyer represented Appellant with appealing from the trial court’s “Final Protective Order”.



Appellant Kaleb Ray Russell a/k/a Kaleb Ray Sanderson attempts to appeal
from the trial court’s “Final Protective Order” signed March 15, 2022. After we
received the re

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United States of America v. Lawrence Belcher

Albany, New York criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with attempting to coerce and entice a child to engage in sexual acts with him.

Lawrence Belcher, age 37, of Troy, New York, admitted that between January and April 2022, he sent sexually explicit text messages to someone he believed to be a 13-year-old boy. Belcher asked to meet the child in person in order to engage in

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State of Oklahoma v. Carson Nathanael Hatch

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant, charged with possession of child pornography in violation of 21 O.S. 1021.2, which provides:

A. It shall be unlawful to:

1. Willfully, and without authorization, gain or attempt to gain access to and damage, modify, alter, delete, destroy, copy, make use of, use malicious computer programs on, disclose or take possessio

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Vidal Presas Garcia v. The State of Texas

Fort Worth, Texas – Criminal lawyer represented Defendant with continuous sexual abuse of a young child. charge.

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In June 2021, Garcia was reindicted for the felony offense of continuous sexual
abuse of a young child pursuant to Section 21.02 of the Texas Penal Code.
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statute provides in pertinent pa

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Alexander Paul Schaefer v. The State of Texas

Fort Worth, Texas – Criminal Defense lawyer represented Appellant with appealing from the trial court’s judgment revoking his probation.

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In 2016, when Schaefer was a juvenile, he was found to have engaged in
delinquent conduct—indecency with a child—and was sentenced to five years’
confinement and plac

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Candace Bell v. The State of Texas

Fort Worth, Texas – Criminal law lawyer represented Appellant with appeals her conviction and 180-day sentence for violation of a protective order charge.

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I. Background
In two points, Appellant Candace Bell appeals her conviction and 180-day
sentence for violation of a protective order. See Tex. Penal Code Ann

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Seth Bookout, Leslye Romero, and Ryan Gallagher v. Jonathan Shelley and Stedfast Baptist Church

Fort Worth, Texas – Civil Litigation lawyer represented Appellants with the trial court’s denial of their motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed against them.

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In this accelerated interlocutory appeal, Appellants Seth Bookout, Leslye
Romero, and Ryan Gallagher challenge the trial court’s denial of their mot

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Ikeem Elijajuan Shaw v. The State of Texas

Fort Worth, Texas – Criminal Defense lawyer represented Appellant with appealing from his convictions for one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and for two counts of deadly conduct charge.

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In May 2017, Entonyo Jones had recently been released from prison. During
Jones’s incarceration, he learned

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United States of America v. Derick Irisha Brown

Birmingham, Alabama criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged for kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap a minor victim.

The jury returned its guilty verdict against Derick Irisha Brown, 32, after three days of testimony before Chief U.S. District Court Judge L. Scott Coogler. Brown was convicted of one count of kidnapping and one count of conspiracy to kidnap a minor victim arising

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United States of America v. Nathan Alan Westbrook

Montgomery, Alabama criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of child pornography.

In 2015, Nathan Alan Westbrook, age 44, from Daleville, Alabama, was convicted in federal court for possessing child pornography. At that time, he received a 33-month prison sentence. Westbrook completed that sentence in September of 2017 and was under the supervision of the United

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United States of America v. Amy Leann Hall

Muskogee, Oklahoma criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with two counts of murder in Indian Country and one ccount of assault with intent to commit murder in Indian Country.

A grand jury indicted Hall in connection with the Nov. 1, 2018, fatal shootings of Kayson Toliver, 18, and Kloee Hall, 16, at their home near Nuyaka. Hall was also charged with shooting a third child of h

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D Kendrik Dewayne Moore v. The State of Texas Child Sexual Predator

Fort Worth, Texas – Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with appealing from the judgment adjudicating him guilty of sexual assault of a child under seventeen charge.

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D Kendrik Moore filed a pro se notice of appeal from the trial court’s
judgment adjudicating him guilty of sexual assault of a child und

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Ryan Matthews v. The State of Texas

Fort Worth, Texas – Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with appealing being found guilty of murder and assessed his punishment at 20 years.

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II. SELF-DEFENSE
Under the Penal Code, a person is justified in using force against another when
and to the degree he “reasonably believes the force is immed

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In the Interest of K.C. and N.T., Children

Fort Worth, Texas – Family Law lawyer represented parents with appealing from a judgment terminating the parent–child relationship.

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The primary issue in this appeal from a judgment terminating the parent–child
relationship (1) between Mother and K.C. and N.T and (2) between Father and K.C.1
is an issue of

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Dyrol T. Stubbs v. The State of Texas Child Sexual Predator

Fort Worth, Texas – Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with challenging his convictions for indecency with a child by sexual contact and indecency with a child by exposure charges.

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I. Introduction
In a single issue, Appellant Dyrol T. Stubbs challenges his convictions by a jury
for indecency w

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IN THE INTEREST OF R.W. AND G.W., CHILDREN

Fort Worth, Texas – Family Law lawyer represented Appellant and Appellant with a order terminating their respective parental rights.

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Appellant L.A. (Mother) and Appellant D.W. (Father) appeal the trial court’s
order terminating their respective parental rights to R.W. and G.W. (the children). In
seven issu

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Latrenda S. Coleman v. Ivan Duane Coleman, Jr.

Fort Worth, Texas – Divorce lawyer represented Appellant with appealing from the trial court’s final decree of divorce.

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Mr. Coleman’s unsworn original petition for divorce (Petition) was a fill-in-theblanks form on which various options for jurisdictional allegations and relief appeared
next to open boxes for

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Beecher Montgomery v. The State of Texas

Fort Worth, Texas – Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with arguing in that his constitutional right to due process were violated.

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In June 2020, Montgomery pleaded guilty to the offenses of evading arrest and
theft and pleaded true to having been previously convicted of a felony. The trial court
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Dani Roisman v. Gavriella Etana Roisman

Houston, Texas – Divorce lawyer represented Appellee with an enforcement action for medical child support.

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Dani and Gavriella have three children together. Jane is their oldest child.
Dani and Gavriella divorced in February 2018 when Jane was 15 years old.
Dani and Gavriella signed an Agreed Divorce Decree

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Dmintry Nikolenko v. Luiza Nikolenko

Houston, Texas – Divorce lawyer represented Appellant with considering whether (1) a Russian divorce decree deprived the trial court of subject-matter jurisdiction.



The Parties’ Relationship
Dmitry Nikolenko (“Dmitry”) and Luiza Nikolenko (“Luiza”) were married
on March 15, 2011 in Tashkent, Uzbekis

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The State of Texas v. Marco Antonio Moreno

Houston, Texas – Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with a aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge.


On April 18, 2012, a grand jury indicted Moreno for aggravated assault with
a deadly weapon (the “assault charge”). The same day, the grand jury also indicted
Moreno on an unrelated charge

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Valerie L. Calf Boss Ribs v. Daniel J. Cornelius

Cut Bank, Montana, family law lawyers represented the parties seeking custody on a child of the relationship between the parties.


¶4 In October 2020, Father picked up L.D.C. from Mother in Browning. He did not return the child for Mother's next scheduled parenting time, however, and instead made multiple failed attempts to get Mother to submit to mediation. In February 2021, Mother

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Allen Flores; Shark Ventures, Inc. d/b/a Shark Shack; Bliss, Inc. d/b/a Bliss Lounge; and Barfly Lounge, Inc. d/b/a Playground Patio Bar v. The City of Galveston, Texas and Yaga's Entertainment, Inc. and Brian Maxwell, in his Official Capacity only

Houston, Texas – Civil Litigation lawyer represented Appellants with seeking injunctive and declaratory relief barring the performance of a contract.



The contract that is the subject of this appeal is the Galveston Mardi Gras
Promoter Agreement 2016-18 (the “Contract”) regarding the City’s selection of

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Rina Sefrin Hutagaol v. Jaka Janaka

Houston, Texas – Divorce lawyer represented Appellee a filing a petition for divorce from his wife.



Jaka and Rina had been married for about 15 years and lived in Fort Bend
County with their two children. In December 2019, the family traveled to Indonesia
for vacation. After an altercation between Jaka, Rina

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