Manslaughter Law
 
United States of America v. Lucas Jack Woods

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with child neglect in Indian Country.

Lucas Jack Wood, age 21, was charged with child neglect for shaking a 4-month-old infant while she was in his care.

“An infant has sustained life altering injuries resulting from the abusive actions of Lucas Woods. This week, he has been held accountable by a federal jury... More...
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Sate of New York v. Miya Ponsetto, a/k/a "SoHo Karen"

New York, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with committing a hate crime.

Miya Ponsetto, a/k/a "SoHo Karen," was indicted for unlawfully imprisoning Keyon Harrold, Jr., age 14, after she accusing him of stealing her cell phone.

Defendant Keyon and his father were all guests at the Arlo Soho hotel.

It was later determined that she left her pho... More...
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State of Oklahoma v. Jimmy Dwayne Grissam

El Reno, OK: criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: HM21, MANSLAUGHTER IN THE FIRST DEGREE, in violation of 21 O.S. 711
Date of Offense: 04/29/2021
Party Name Disposition Information
GRISSAM, JIMMY DWAYNE Disposed: CONVICTION, 04/04/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: MANSLAUGHTER IN THE FIRST DEGREE(HM21)
Violation... More...
   $0 (04-11-2022 - OK)

State of Missouri v. Kenneth Scott McKee, Curtis P. Lanham and Charles V. Baltzell

Galena, Missouri criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with manslaughter.

Kenneth Scott McKee, age 54, Curtis P. Lanham, age 39, and Charles V. Baltzell, age 79, were charged with first-degree involuntary manslaughter for their respective roles in the deaths of 17 people who drowned when the duck boat in which they were passengers in 2018.... More...
   $0 (04-08-2022 - MO)

State of Wyoming v. Kristina Eileen Croy

Cheyenne, Wyoming criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with manslaughter.

Kristina Eileen Croy was accused for causing the death of an 8-month-old girl who was in her care by putting her in a too-small swaddling device against her mother’s wishes and against state guidelines in a day care center that she operated.

6-2-107. Criminally negligent homicide.
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   $0 (04-05-2022 - WY)

State of Minnesota v. Robert Lee Baker, III

St. Paul, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with Second-Degree Murder.

Robert Lee Baker, III was accused of shooting and killing Maurice Antonio Anderson, age 28, of Minneapolis at the Sonesta Suites hotel on Nov. 9, 2020.

Defendant told police that he shot and killed Anderson for robbing him.

Anderson was shot in the head 11 times.
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   $0 (04-05-2022 - MN)

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Jaikorian Johnson

Owensboro, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with murder, attempted murder, tampering with physcial evidence, and four counts of wanton endangerment.

Jaikorian Johnson, age 18, shot and killed Corban Henry, age 15.

Johnson claimed self defense.

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   $0 (04-02-2022 - )

State of Oklahoma v. Troy Wesley Lane

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with:
Manslaughter - First Degree - Automobile... More...
   $0 (03-30-2022 - OK)

State of North Carolina v. William Harrison

Rocky Mount, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with felony death by vehicle and of driving while impaired.

William Harrison, 60, was charged with having unintentionally caused the death of Ronald Kelly, 52, on Sept. 30, 2020.

G.S. 20-141.§ Felony and misdemeanor death by vehicle; felony serious injury by vehicle;
aggravated offenses; repea... More...
   $0 (03-25-2022 - NC)

State of Oklahoma v. Christopher Allen Straight

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with:
MANSLAUGHTER - FIRST DEGREE - HEAT OF PASSION

Count # 1. Count as Filed: HM21, MANSLAUGHTER - FIRST DEGREE - HEAT OF PASSION, in violation of 21 O.S. 711
Date of Offense: 06/06/2020
Party Name Disposition Information
STRAIGHT, CHRISTOPHER ALLEN Disposed: CONVICTION, 03/24/2022. Jury TrialMore...
   $0 (03-24-2022 - OK)

State of Oklahoma v. Blake Lee Chrisenberry

El Reno, OK: criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with drug trafficking in violation of 63 O.S. 2-415, which provides:

B. Except as otherwise authorized by the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act, it shall be unlawful for any person to:

1. Knowingly distribute, manufacture, bring into this state or possess a controlled substance specified in subsection ... More...
   $0 (03-21-2022 - OK)

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Jordan Alford

Franklin, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with willful and wanton homicide.

Jordan Alfrod, age 27, of Portland, Tennessee was indicted for his roll in the killing of Damian Cook, age 19, who was killed in Franklin, on August 7, 2018.

Cook was found Aug. 7, 2018, in a garage at Broderson Mobile Home Community in Franklin that served as his home. Coo... More...
   $0 (03-21-2022 - TN)

United States of America v. Sito Aeroplan Nalwood

Phoenix, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with voluntary manslaughter.

On July 26, 2018, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Michael T. Liburdi to attempted to take a bag from the victim by threatening her with a rifle. When the victim refused, Nalwood began firing shots around her. One of the shots hit the victim in the pelvis, which ultimately k... More...
   $0 (03-21-2022 - AZ)

Commonwealth of Maryland v. Joseph Francis Migliaccio

Prince Frederick, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with negligent manslaughter with an automobile, manslaughter by a vehicle, homicide with a motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol and other charges.

Joseph Francis Migliaccio, age 35, hit and killed Leah Christines Clark, age 35, in October 2019. Clark was walking along Dares Beach Road when she was hit fro... More...
   $0 (03-18-2022 - MD)

State of Arkansas v. Michael Davis

Cabot, Arkansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with manslaughter and negligent homicide.

Michael Davis, a former Lonoke County sheriff's office sargeant shot and killed Hunter Brittain, age 17, during a traffic stop. The Office said he shot the boy when he reached into the bed of pickup during the stop and failed to comply with the orders being given by Davis.
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   $0 (03-18-2022 - AR)

United States of America v. Brian Tony

Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder.

Brian Tony, 50, of Gallup, New Mexico an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, was arrested on June 3, 2016, on a criminal complaint charging him with killing a man by stabbing him in the head and neck and hitting him with a hammer. Tony killed the victim on the Navajo Nation in McKinl... More...
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State of New York v. Jason L. Washington, Jr.

Buffalo, New York criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with one count of Manslaughter in the First Degree (Class “B” violent felony).

On August 31, 2019, at approximately 7:00 p.m., Jason L. Washington, Jr., age 20, of Buffalo, was involved in a fight with other individuals at Emerson Park near Sycamore Street and Koons Avenue in the City of Buffalo. The incident occ... More...
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STATE OF LOUISIANA Vs. CARDELL A. HAYES

New Orleans, LA - Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with manslaughter and attempted manslaughter charges.



The facts and procedural history of this case were set out in this Court’s
appellate opinion. State v. Hayes, 2017-0789 (La. App. 4 Cir. 3/27/19); ___
So.3d___, 2019 WL 1... More...
   $0 (03-09-2022 - LA)

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Brandon W. Bostian

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represent defendant charged with involuntary manslaughter.

Brandon Bostian was the engineer in control of an Amtrak train that jumped the track at 100 mph killing 8 people in 2015.

Defendant was charged with having committed 200 crimes as a result of the derailment which killed 8 and injured hundreds of the passengers on the Wash... More...
   $0 (03-05-2022 - PA)

State of Ohio v. William Beasley

Painesville, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with murder, involuntary manslaughter, and two counts of endangering children.

According to officials, William Bentley's infant son Zachary was beaten to death in May 2020. The child was 32 days old when he died.... More...
   $0 (03-04-2022 - OH)

United States of America v. Billy Shane Hemphill

Tulsa Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with involuntary manslaughter in Indian Country.

Billy Shane Hemphill, 48, admitted to driving a 1999 GMC Sierra on Aug. 11, 2019, when it veered off a county road and crashed about a mile south of Foyil in Rogers County, killing passenger Nicole Estes, 47, of Claremore.

Defendant was intoxicated with alcohol a... More...
   $0 (03-02-2022 - OK)

Angela Lambes v. Eric Lambes

Jackson, MS - Divorce lawyer represented both parties with filing competing claims for divorce.




Eric and Angela were married on December 31, 2011.2 Two children were born of
the marriage: “Adam” was born in 2012, and “James” was born in 2014.3 The couple’s
relationship was tur... More...
   $0 (02-23-2022 - MS)

State of Louisiana v. Ernesto Alonso and Frank Garcia

Baton Rouge, Louisiana criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with first-degree murder.

Ernesto Alonso was charged with first-degree murder for killing Denis and Suzanne Duplantier.

The bodies of the Duplantier couple bound and beaten inside their truck at a gas station in Hammond on Oct. 19, 2015. The couple’s home on Highland Road had been broken into the nig... More...
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JONATHAN MATTHEW ALEDDA, vs THE STATE OF FLORIDA

Miami, FL - Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with appealing his conviction for misdemeanor culpable negligence charge.



On the day of the incident, July 18, 2016, Aledda was a four-year
veteran of the City of North Miami, Florida, police department. He was a
certified SWAT offic... More...
   $0 (02-20-2022 - FL)

State of Minnesota v. Kimberly Potter

Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with first and second-degree manslaughter.

Kimberly Potter, age 23, a former Brooklyn Center police officer, shot and killed Daunt Wright, age 20, on April 11, 2021, during a traffic stop. Potter claimed that she mistakenly grabbed her 9mm handgun rather than her taser when she shot and killed
Wright.
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   $0 (02-19-2022 - MN)

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