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United States of America v. Edwin Calligan

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with possessing a firearm as a felon, importing a controlled substance and attempting to distribute a controlled substance charges.



The mother of Calligan’s girlfriend owned the house at is‐
sue and it was located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Jonathan
Goe

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United States of America v. Elijah Vines

Chicago, IL- Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with five counts related to sex trafficking of a minor, including: sex trafficking of a child, and sex trafficking of a child and; conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor; and interstate travel in aid of racketeering charges.



The evidence at trial demonst

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United States of America v. Kyle Matthews

Chicago, IL- Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with
possessing a machine gun, an unregistered silencer, and an unregistered short-barreled rifle charges.



On Saturday, March 31, 2018, Michael Long—an employee at an auto-parts store in Carlyle, Illinois—overheard
his coworker discussing pipe bomb

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United States of America v. Carl Palladinetti

Chicago, IL- Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with bank fraud and making false statements.



Palladinetti admits to knowingly participating in a yearslong scheme to defraud lenders. He and several others used
this scheme to purchase at least thirty apartment buildings in
the Chicago area and

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State of Oklahoma v. Erica Marie Hays

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, charged with possession of a false ID in violation of 21 O.S.C. 1550.41(C).

Count # 1. Count as Filed: IDSFI, MAKE/SELL/POSSESS/DISPLAY FALSE ID, in violation of 21 O.S. 1550.41(C)
Date of Offense: 06/03/2021
Party Name Disposition Information
Hays, Erica Marie Disposed: DEFERRED, 11/09/2021. Guilty Plea
C

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United States of America v. Evens Claude a/k/a Shawn Miranda

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with two counts of bank fraud, six counts of access device fraud, eight counts of aggravated identity theft, and various currency offenses.



A jury found Claude guilty on two counts of bank fraud,
six counts of access device fraud, eight counts o

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United States of America v. Iancu Ovidiu Florea

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit financial institution fraud.

Iancu Ovidiu Florea, 53, was charged with conspiracy to commit financial institution fraud.

Florea admitted that he and codefendant Marinel Muchie, also a Romanian citizen, committed fraud against Tinker Federal Credit Union in July and August 2019. The cre

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United States of America v. Larry O'Neal

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with one count of possession of child pornography charge.



We consider first whether the district court committed
reversible error in finding that O'Neal's interview was not
custodial. In so doing, we accept the district court's findings
of fact and

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United States of America v. Tony Leonard a/k/a Tom Cat, a/k/a Thomas Lee Jones

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with
one count of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and one count of possession with the intent to distribute cocaine charges.



In August 2017, Lewiston (Maine) Police Department
("LPD") Patrolman Zachary Provost submitted an affidavit in <

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United States of America v. Darwin Ramos-David

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with two armed carjackings, armed robbery, and using and carrying a firearm in connection with a carjacking charges.



We begin with the background facts. On January 3, 2017,
four individuals took a 2008 Toyota Yaris from a woman while she
was opening he

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United States of America v. John Thomas Burnette

Tallahassee, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with extortion, honest services fraud, use of an interstate facility to promote bribery, and making false statements.

John Thomas Burnette, 44, of Tallahassee, was charged with extortion, honest services fraud, use of an interstate facility to promote bribery, and making false statements.

At trial, the gov

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United States of America v. Jesus Leonardo Castillo-Martinez

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with illegally distributing marijuana and of trafficking OxyContin charges.


This case concerns the
interpretation of a statutory bar in 8 U.S.C. § 1326(d) precluding
certain collateral attacks in criminal proceedings. Appellant
Jesus Leonardo Castillo-

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United States of America v. Ruben Gonzalez

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin and 500 grams or more of cocaine charges.



When reviewing the denial of a motion to suppress, we recite "the facts as . . . found by the court below, including any
inferences dr

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United States of America v. Alston Orlando Leroy Williams

Atlanta, GA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a
sex trafficking charge.



Deborah was 16 years old when she first met Alston Williams.1
She had dropped out of high school and was pursuing her GED; she lived with her father,
but her home life was complicated. That’s when a friend, Marilyn

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United States of America v. Kelvin Lorenzo Harris and James Archibald

Atlanta, GA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, attempted possession with intent to distribute cocaine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime charges.



These are the essential facts adduced at trial. As part of an el

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United States of America v. Lillian Akwuba

Atlanta, GA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a conspiring to commit and committing health care fraud charge.



Ms. Akwuba was convicted of issuing and conspiring to issue prescriptions
for controlled substances improperly, conspiring to commit health care fraud, and
committing health care frau

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United States of America v. Anthony Villadares

Los Angeles, CA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with kidnapping.

Anthony Valladares, 29, of Pasadena, was indicted for committing a “horrendous crime” when he and others conspired to kidnap the victim, resulting in his death.

Valladares conspired with others, including Chinese nationals Guangyao Yang, 28, and Peicheng Shen, 35, to kidnap Ruo

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United States of America v. JUANA BAEZ-PAULINO

Tampa, Florida - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with fraudulently and falsely procured birth certificate (Count One), false claim of United States citizenship (Count Two), and aggravated identity theft (Count Three) charges.



On April 14, 2020, Defendant pleaded guilty to use of a fraudulently and falsely <

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United States of America v. Antonio Soul Gonzalez

Atlanta, Georgia - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with
a possessing 50 grams or more of cocaine base (i.e., crack cocaine) with intent to distribute charge. He now appeals the denial of his motion for a sentence reduction.



Pursuant to a plea agreement, Mr. Gonzalez pled guilty in 2005 to possessing

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United States of America v. Eddie Lee Perry, Chad Ragin

Atlanta, Georgia - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute in excess of five kilograms of cocaine and in excess of 280 grams of cocaine base.



In this consolidated appeal, Perry presents multiple challenges to his
convictions, while Ragin attacks his sentence

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United States of America v. Scott A. Wilson

Oakland, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with embezzlement.

Scott A. Wilson was charged for executing a multi-year embezzlement scheme targeting his former employer, Operating Engineers Local No. 3.

“Scott Wilson abused his authority as the IT director of the Operating Engineers Local 3 by creating a complex scheme to steal millions of dollars i

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United States of America v. Eric Wade Lysne

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with bank and wire fraud.

In April 2020, Eric Wade Lysne, age 35, devised and perpetrated a scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration (SBA) and various financial institutions by fraudulently applying for and obtaining Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans using fals

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United States of America v. Matthew William Wheeler United States of America v. James Wayne Long United States of America v. Charles Smigrod United States of America v. Anita Sgarro United States of America v. Charles Topping

Atlanta, Georgia - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with wire fraud, mail fraud, and conspiracy for their alleged involvement in a telemarketing scheme to defraud stock investors charges.



The government charged the defendants in this case for
their alleged roles in a telemarketing scheme that tricked i

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United States of America v. Francisco Joseph Arcila Ramirez

Atlanta, Georgia - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization charge.



Colombian law enforcement were investigating how illicit
firearms and ammunition were smuggled into Colombia and
distributed to guerrilla paramilitary groups. A Colombi

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State of Indiana v. Robert Lawson

Indianapolis, Indiana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with assault and battery and perjury.

Former Indianapolis police officer Robert Lawson was indicted for hitting a 17-year-old mail student in 2019 outside Shortridge High School.

Law claimed that he was defending himself but the State claimed that he struck the student “without a legitimate concern for

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