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The People of the State of California v. Maurice Jewel Taylor Sr. and Natalie Sumiko Brothwell

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with two counts of murder and multiple counts of child abuse.

A Lancaster father and mother of four have been convicted of murdering their teenage son and daughter and abusing their two younger boys in 2020.

“This was a monstrous act of cruelty that shattered an entire family,” Los Angeles Cou

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Stephen Lee Allen v. District Court

Bartlesville, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder in the first-degree.

¶1 The Petitioner has filed a Petition for Writ of Mandamus requesting that this Court direct the District Court of Washington County to grant Petitioner's discovery requests in Case No. CRF-90-239. Petitioner appeals from an order by the District Court denying in part and gr

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Marcus L. Willis v. Diaz De Leon, Jeff Williams, Chief, City of Bedford

Dallas, Texas personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on civil rights violations under 42 U.S.C. 1983.

Plaintiff Marcus L. Willis was driving in Bedford, Texas when Defendant Officer Diaz De Leon pulled him over. De Leon informed Willis that he stopped him for driving without valid insurance.1 De Leon then stated he smelled marijuana and proceeded to search Willis’ ve

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State of New York v. Joel Nieves

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant chgarged wiht Attempted Murder in the Second Degree, one count of Assault in the First Degree; and two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree.

Joel Nieves, age 35, allegedly firing multiple gunshots during the Mexican Day parade and hitting a 17-year-old innocent bystander in September 2025

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United States of America v. Kevin LaMarcus Mitchell

Jackson, Mississippi, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.

his case is about whether the Second Amendment protects a habitual marijuana user from being permanently dispossessed of a firearm based on our Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. On November 28, 2023, Kevin LaMarcus Mitchell was charged with possession o

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State of Wisconsin v. Morgan Geyser

Waukesha, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attemped second-degree homicide.

On May 31, 2014, twelve-year-old Morgan Geyser, with the aid of twelve-year-oldAnissa Weier, repeatedly stabbed her friend, the twelve-year-old victim in this case. Geyser’s attack brought the victim to the brink of death, but she very fortunately survived. As a

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Juliana Swink v. Souothern Health Partners, Inc., et al.

Greensboro, North Carolina personal injury lawyer represents the Plaintiff on medical malpractice, wrongful death and civil rights claims.

David Ray Gsunter was diagnosed with a heart condition shortly after birth. At fifteen years old, to address his heart condition, Gunter underwent open-heart surgery to replace his aortic valve with a mechanical heart valve (“MHV”).
At this t

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Estate of Devine v. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a medical malpractice wrongful death theory.

On May 10, 2023, Appellees filed a wrongful death and survival action against Appellant, in connection with a biopsy that Gabriella underwent as part of her treatment for Acute Myelogenous Lukemia, which Appellees allege caused Gabriella's death. Appellees

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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Dimitrius Bashir Campbell

Allentown, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted homicide and conspiracy to do the same.

On December 29, 2023, members of the Allentown Police Department were around the area of the Sportsmen's Bar for an investigation in an unrelated case when they heard shots fired. They pursued a fleeing individual, later identified as Appellant. Once of

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State of Delaware v. Marsaan Newman

Wilmington, Delaware, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Robbery First Degree and Assault Second Degree.

The Defendant filed a motion for postconviction relief.

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United States of America v. David Dupree

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant seeking compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i).

In 2009, after a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Dupree was convicted of armed bank robbery, use of a firearm during a crime of violence, and conspiracy to commit robbery. The District Court s

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State of Delaware v. Dejuan Robinson

Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of Manslaughter, four counts of first-degree assault, and five counts of first-degree reckless endangerment.

On August 21, 2024, shortly after 11 p.m., officials said. Dejuan Robinson, age 27, had been pulled over by Delaware state troopers for driving 60 mph

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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Quader Moore

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder and possession of a firearm.

Quader Moore, age 20, was charged with murder for killing Tianna Wells in 2021.

On the morning of Wednesday, June 16, 2021, Philadelphia police officers responded to a Missing Persons Report at a rooming house on the 2600 block of N. 17th St

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David Timpanaro v. Jenkinson's Pavilion, Inc. and Jenkinson's South, Inc.

Morristown, New Jersey, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a wrongful death negligence theory.

The essential facts are undisputed. On September 23, 2020, plaintiffs, accompanied by their minor child, C.T., and then sixty-nine-year-old father and grandfather, Anthony Timpanaro ("decedent"), traveled to defendants' beachfront property to spend the day. By all accou

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State of New Jersey v. Joseph Blackham

Morristown, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with DWI.

Joseph Blackham was in a running Jeep while intoxicated.


The State relied on the community caretaking doctrine to justify the officers' early-morning interaction with defendant and his vehicle at his residence. The "community caretaking "doctrine was first recognized by the United Sta

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United States of America v. Adam Gomez

Syracuse, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of firearm with obliterated serial number.

AI Overview

Possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number is illegal under federal and state laws, though some federal challenges are ongoing.

Generally, the law prohibits knowingly possessing, receiving, or transporting a f

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Jane Doe v. Concord Police Department, et al.

Concord, New Hampshire, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking an order requiring that her name be removed from the Exculpatory Evidence Schedule (EES). See RSA 105:13-d (2023).

I. Facts

[¶2] The following facts are taken from the trial court's summary judgment order or are otherwise established by the record. In 2013, a Concord police officer discovered that

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Amy Moore, et al. v. Howard Rubin

Brooklyn, New York, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on Racketeering (RICO) Act violation theories.

Howard Rubin, a successful bond trader, recruited women from around the country to travel to New York and engage in sadomasochism with him in exchange for money. Rubin employed assistants, whom he paid up to $15,000 per month, to lure women with promi

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Janelle Quinn v. Columbia County School District

August, Georgia, civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a education civil rights violation theory.

Quinn filed this suit in April 2022. In her complaint, she set
out two claims: racial discrimination under Title VI (“Count One”),
and retaliation under Title VI (“Count Two”). Importantly, Count
One was brought on behalf of D.J.Q. and Count Two was brought

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United States of America v. Johnathan Gaines

Tampa, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank rubbery by force or violence.

Gaines is serving a 711-month sentence for committing three armed robberies in 2000, brandishing a firearm during the
commission of one of those robberies, and discharging a firearm during another. At the time of his conviction, he received a 25-year mandatory minimum sente

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Stacy Hovan v. Metroploitan Life Insurance Company

Miami, Florida, employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a an ERISA law theory.

Stacy Hovan sued Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“MetLife”) under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
of 1974 (“ERISA”), challenging MetLife’s termination of her long- term disability benefit.

Hovan was employed as a commercial litigator with
Troutman

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State of Missouri v. Kevin Calamaco-Morales

Kansas City, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with first-degree murder.

The Kansas City, Kansas police department believe that Kevin Calamaco-Morales, 22, called his girlfriend 18 times before going to home and killing her.

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United States of America v. Todd Harold Cooper

Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with armed bank robbery.

In 2003, a jury convicted Cooper of armed bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113. At sentencing, the government sought a life sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c), the three strikes provision. Relevant here, § 3559(c) mandates a life
sentence if the defendant “is convicte

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State of Oklahoma v. Sanders

Stillwater, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with Firearm After Former Conviction of a Felony (Count I) (21 O.S.Supp.2012, § 1283) and Knowingly Concealing Stolen Property After Former Conviction of a Felony (Count II) (21 O.S.2011, § 1713).

¶5 Title 21 O.S.2011, § 11(A) governs multiple punishments for a single criminal act. Section 11 provides in re

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United States of America v. Triston Harris Steinman

Las Vegas, Nevada, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.

The district court suppressed evidence seized from Triston Harris Steinman’s car on multiple grounds, including that a law enforcement officer violated his Fourth Amendment rights during a traffic stop. The Government appeals the suppression order, co

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