Jackson, Mississippi extortion charge criminal defense lawyer represented defendant, Royric “Roy” Benamon, age 27, with one count of federal extortion under color of right.

In April 2020, Officer Benamon pulled over a driver at night in Lauderdale County, and solicited and received from the driver a cash payment in exchange for not issuing the driver a ticket.

Benamon was indicte... More...   $0 (12-05-2020 - MS)

Tulsa, OK - Domestic assault and battery by strangulation criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: ABDOM, DOMESTIC ASSAULT AND BATTERY BY STRANGULATION, in violation of 21 O.S. 644.1
Date of Offense: 10/18/2020
Party Name Disposition Information
PIERCE, JOHN PAUL Disposed: DEFERRED, 12/04/2020. Guilty Plea
Count as Dispose... More...   $0 (12-04-2020 - OK)

In this interlocutory appeal of a preliminary injunction, the dispositive issue is whether 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(a)(23) gives Medicaid patients a right to challenge, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, a State’s determination that a health care provider is not “qualified” within the meaning of § 1396a(a)(23). Our decision rests primarily on two independent bases: (1) the Supreme Court’s decision in O’Bannon v. To... More...   $0 (11-25-2020 - TX)

Columbia, South Carolina Hobbs Act violation criminal defense lawyer represented Brandon Thompson, age 33, who was charged with conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.

Evidence presented to the court showed that on the early morning hours of December 30, 2017, deputies with the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department responded to ... More...   $0 (11-24-2020 - SC)

Greenville, North Carolina interference with fair housing indictment criminal defense lawyer represented Douglas Matthew Gurkins, age 34.

On August 6, 2020, Gurkins was charged with one count of criminal interference with the Fair Housing Act, for using threats of force against an African American family because of the family members� race and because they were renting a dwelling. At h... More...   $0 (11-24-2020 - NC)

Tulsa, OK - Kidnapping criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: KID, KIDNAPPING, in violation of 21 O.S. 741
Date of Offense: 08/25/2019
Party Name Disposition Information
HARRIS, RAMON DSHON Disposed: DISMISSED, 10/25/2019. Dismissed- Request of the State
Count as Disposed: KIDNAPPING(KID)
Violation of 21 O.S. 741
... More...   $0 (11-20-2020 - OK)

Anchorage, Alaska - Armed robbery criminal defense lawyer charged with bank rubbery and discharging a firearm during separate violent crimes on June 1, 2019, and June 15, 2019.

As part of a plea agreement, Kek Nyathor Bol, age 22, admitted to entering a Cash America store on Gambell Street in Anchorage on June 1, 2019, with a Glock pistol. He fired a shot into the ceiling, threatened to ... More...   $0 (11-19-2020 - AK)

Rome, Georgia drug trafficking criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with providing prison inmates with methamphetamine, marijuana, and tobacco.

Michael L. Jones was charged with accepting bribes to provide prison inmates with methamphetamine, marijuana, and tobacco, all of which were destined to be smuggled into Floyd County Correctional Institution (“FCCI”) in Rome, Geor... More...   $0 (11-11-2020 - GA)

Tulsa, Oklahoma domestic assault and battery with strangulation criminal defense lawyer represented Jawaad Akdojee, who was charged by the States of Oklahoma with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: ABDOM, ASSAULT AND BATTERY - DOMESTIC- BY STRANGULATION, in violation of 21 O.S. 644.J
Date of Offense: 08/27/2020
Party Name Disposition Information
AKOOJEE, JAWAAD Disposed: DISMISS... More...   $0 (10-23-2020 - OK)

Arapaho James Oldman and Matthew Whiteplume severely beat Charles Dodge
III. One of them cut his throat. Mr. Dodge died from blunt-force trauma and/or sharpforce
injuries.
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A grand jury charged Mr. Oldman with first-degree murder as both a principal and
an aider and abettor. At trial, the district court refused his request for a lesser-included
offense instruction on assau... More...   $0 (10-21-2020 - WY)

St. Louis, Missouri interference with commerce by robbery criminal defense lawyer represented Clyde Jefferson, age 28, with five counts of interference with commerce by robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.

Jefferson admitted that he used online marketplaces including Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp, and Letgo to arrange for victims to sell h... More...   $0 (10-16-2020 - MO)

Dayton, Ohio armed robbery criminal defense lawyer represented Kavonte Knolton, age 21, who was charged with two crimes related to armed robbery.

Knolton and Jamaal Murphy, 19, were charged in June 2020 with working together to rob at gunpoint several businesses in the Dayton area.

Knolton and Murphy were arrested June 29 by Dayton Police and agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, T... More...   $0 (10-16-2020 - OH)

Tulsa, Oklahoma first degree burglary criminal defense lawyer represented Lance Joseph Braun, who was charged by the States of Oklahoma with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: BRG1, BURGLARY - FIRST DEGREE, in violation of 21 O.S. 1431
Date of Offense: 07/18/2020
Party Name Disposition Information
BRAUN, LANCE JOSEPH Disposed: DEFERRED, 10/06/2020. Guilty Plea
Count as Dispo... More...   $0 (10-06-2020 - OK)

Plaintiffs Arash Alborzi, M.D., and Arash Alborzi, M.D.,
Inc. sued defendants University of Southern California, Keck
School of Medicine of USC, and USC Verdugo Hills Hospital
(collectively, USC); as well as Concord Hospitalist Group and
Elevate Health Group. Alborzi and his corporation were part of a
panel of on-call physicians at Verdugo Hills Hospital. Plaintiffs
alleged... More...   $0 (10-01-2020 - CA)