Grand Rapids, Michigan criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with conspiracy to kidnap the Governor of Michigan.

Daniel Harris, 24, Brandon Caserta, 33, Adam Fox, 38, and Barry Croft Jr., 46 were charged with violation of 18 U.S.C. 1201, which provides:

(a) Whoever unlawfully seizes, confines, inveigles, decoys, kidnaps, abducts, or carries away and holds for ra... More...   $0 (04-08-2022 - MI)

Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, kidnapping and coercion.

Joshua Lankford, a/k/a 20-20, a/k/a Ling Bright, a/k/a Yellow, age 44, led and organized a conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and to commit kidnapping. The evidence indicated that Lankford recruited the victim, a young ... More...   $0 (04-08-2022 - MY)

Cape Girardeau, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with second-degree burglary.

Yount was charged with six counts of the class D felony of second-degree burglary following a string of burglaries in December 2018 and January 2019. Prior to a jury trial, the State filed a motion to amend the information, alleging Yount was a dangerous offender subject to an exten... More...   $0 (04-08-2022 - MO)

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with second-degree murder.

Luis Manuel Serrano-Delgado, age 18, was accused of shooting and killing Jeremanuel Negron-Quiles in 2018 over a $20 drug debt. Negron-Quiles, age 22, was found hot in the back on July 6, 2018.


# Charge Grade Description Offense Dt. Disposition
1 18 § 2502 §§ B... More...   $0 (04-08-2022 - PA)

New Orleans, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented Jonovan Parker, who was charged with second-degree murder and obstruction of justice.

Jonvan Parker, age 23, was accused of shooting and killing Renard Matthews on June 25, 2018.

Defendant pleaded not guilty and Defense counsel showed by the State's eye witness could not have seen the shooter, as he claimed.

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree and third-degree murder.

Tyquan Atkinson, age 22, was charged with shooting and killing 20-year-old Nicholas Flacco who was shot in the chest in March 2021 in FDR park.

Defendant testified on his own behalf.

The State claimed that the Falacco was killed in revenge for after... More...   $0 (04-06-2022 - PA)

Beaufort, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder.

Lewis "Trey" Branche, III was accused of killing his girlfriend Kristen Bennett on September 4, 2018.

Defendant's counsel admitted that that his client shot and killed the victim.

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

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New York, New York criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with child sexual exploitation offenses and kidnapping.

Nachman Helbrans and Mayer Rosner, were leaders of an extremist religious sect called Lev Tahor, masterminded a scheme to kidnap a 14-year-old girl (“Minor-1”) and a 12-year-old boy (“Minor-2”) from their mother in Woodridge, New York. The defendants... More...   $0 (04-01-2022 - NY)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with:
Kidnapping

Count # 1. Count as Filed: KID, KIDNAPPING, in violation of 21 O.S. 741
Date of Offense: 02/14/2022
Party Name Disposition Information
BRASWELL, JARED LEE Disposed: CONVICTION, 03/28/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: KIDNAPPING(KID)
Violation of 21 O.S. 741
Count #... More...   $0 (03-28-2022 - OK)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with:
Kidnapping

Count # 1. Count as Filed: KID, KIDNAPPING, in violation of 21 O.S. 741
Date of Offense: 02/14/2022
Party Name Disposition Information
BRASWELL, JARED LEE Disposed: CONVICTION, 03/28/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: KIDNAPPING(KID)
Violation of 21 O.S. 741
Count #... More...   $0 (03-28-2022 - )

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with:
Kidnapping

Count # 1. Count as Filed: KID, KIDNAPPING, in violation of 21 O.S. 741
Date of Offense: 09/28/2021
Party Name Disposition Information
POWERS, WILLIAM KNIGHT Disposed: CONVICTION, 03/22/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: KIDNAPPING(KID)
Violation of 21 O.S. 741
Coun... More...   $0 (03-22-2022 - OK)

Washington, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with kidnapping and second degree robbery.

Brandon Jonathan Engle, 28, was indicted for on or about Aug. 30, 2018, Engle “did by force, threat or deception knowingly, under circumstances creating a substantial risk of serious physical harm” to the victim, “restrain the liberty of” the victim” and “did not r... More...   $0 (03-22-2022 - OH)

Vallejo, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with robbery of an inhabited dwelling, residential burglary and false imprisonment.

Matthew Muller pleaded no contest to two counts of forcible rape of Denise Huskins, who was dragged from her Vallejo home in 2015, the county district attorney’s office said.

Muller was charged and convicted of kidnapping... More...   $0 (03-18-2022 - CA)

Breckenridge, Colorado criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with first-degree attempted murder, first-degee assault.

Robert Fergus_Jean was charged with first-degree attempted murder for firing six shots at his roommate and friend Stephen Darley through Darley's bedroom door in Vail.

Defendant claimed self defense.


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Ashland, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with kidnapping and sexual assault.

On July 10, 2020, and the early hours of July 11, 2020, Charles Glorioso, age 53, from Portsmouth, Ohio and Nathan Welch kidnapped a woman at knifepoint. The victim was driving the two men in her vehicle, from Portsmouth, into Greenup County, Kentucky. There, the victim testified, bot... More...   $0 (03-17-2022 - OH)

Tampa, Florida criminal defense appellate lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued the State of Florida seeking a writ of habeas corpus setting aside his conviction for murder, armed robbery and kidnapping with bodily injury.


The power of the federal courts to grant a writ of habeas corpus setting aside a state prisoner's conviction on a claim that his conviction was obtained in violat... More...   $0 (03-14-2022 - FL)

Spokane, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder.

A federal jury convicted James Cloud, 37, of White Swan, Washington, on four counts of First Degree Murder. The jury also returned guilty verdicts against James Cloud for Carjacking, two counts of Brandishing a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence, Kidnapping a M... More...   $0 (03-10-2022 - WA)

Spokane, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with four counts of first-degree murder.

On March 9, 2022, a federal jury convicted James Cloud, 37, of White Swan, Washington, on four counts of First Degree Murder. The jury also returned guilty verdicts against James Cloud for Carjacking, two counts of Brandishing a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence, ... More...   $0 (03-10-2022 - WA)

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with kidnapping and murder.

Darius Fields, age 31, was accused for kidnapping and killing a 13-year-old girl in retaliation for stolen drugs.

The State alleged that Fields was the kingpin of a lucrative drug operation and the mastermind behind the kidnapping of the child.

Michael Titus field was also mur... More...   $0 (03-09-2022 - TX)

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with conspiracy and hate crime charges for attacking five victims inside a restaurant while shouting ethnic slurs, hurling chairs at the victims and threatening to kill them.

William Stepanyan, 23, of Glendale, and Harutyun Harry Chalikyan, 24, of Tujung, were charged with committing hate crimes in violation o... More...   $0 (03-09-2022 - )

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: FE1A, ENDANGERING OTHERS WHILE ELUDING POLICE OFFICER, in violation of 21 O.S. 540A (B)
Date of Offense: 09/02/2021
Party Name Disposition Information
COLE, LLOYD DANIEL Disposed: CONVICTION, 03/08/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: ENDANGERING OTHERS WHILE ELUD... More...   $0 (03-08-2022 - OK)

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with kidnapping.

Edgar Adrian Hernandez Lemus, 23, of the Central-Alameda neighborhood in Los Angeles and Junior Almendarez Martinez, 23, of Watts were charged for engaging in a conspiracy and kidnapping for ransom.

At the conclusion of a three-day jury trial in November 2021, Lemus was foun... More...   $0 (03-01-2022 - CA)

Ballston Spa, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with kidnapping in the second degree, strangulation in the second degree, aggravated family offense, unlawful imprisonment in the second degree, criminal contempt in the first degree, witness tampering in the fourth degree, and assault in the third degree and criminal contempt in the second degree.

Michael R. Zak... More...   $0 (02-26-2022 - NY)

Buffalo, New York criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with international parental kidnapping.

Lisa Miller, 53, formerly of Virginia, pleaded guilty to international parental kidnapping, which carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Defendant Miller was in a civil union with Janet Jenkins under Vermont law. Miller was artificiall... More...   $0 (02-23-2022 - NY)