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Marcos Landin v. The State of Texas

Austin, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Marcos Landin with a Indecency with a Child charge.




Child was born to Mother and Father in 2001. Mother separated from Father,
began dating Landin, and asked Landin to move into an apartment with her and Child in 2004.
The three moved into a duplex about a year

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United States of America v. Elizabeth Korcz, M.D. and Matthew Korez

Birmingham, Alabama criminal defense drug lawyer represented defendant charged with unlawfully distributing opioids and other controlled substances while the doctor was absent from the clinic.

Elizabeth Korcz, M.D., 47, a licensed physician, and Matthew Korcz, 47, her husband and former practice manager, both of Hoover, Alabama, were charged with conspiracy to unlawfully distribute co

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Appellants, Glenn Hegar, Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas and Ken Paxton, Attorney General of the State of Texas// Cross-Appellant, Health Care Service Corporation, A Mutual Legal Reserve Company, d/b/a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas v. Appellee, Health Care Service Corporation, A Mutual Legal Reserve Company, d/b/a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas// Cross-Appellees, Glenn Hegar, Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas and Ken Paxton, Attorney General of the State of Texas

Austin, TX - Tax attorney represented Health Care Service Corporation, A Mutual Legal Reserve Company, d/b/a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas with stop-loss policies in question here limiting the self-insured employer’s liability by providing coverage for employee health-benefit costs that exceed a certain amount charged.



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Texas Health and Human Services Commission v. Dimitria Pope and Shannon Pickett

Austin, TX - Employee-side labor and employment attorney represented Dimitria Pope and Shannon Pickett with filing suit against appellant Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) under the Texas Whistleblower Act.




Pope and Pickett were employed by HHSC as the Director and Associateployment
Director, respectiv

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Shawn Gant-Benalcazar v. The State of Texas

Austin, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Shawn Gant-Benalcazar with a Capital Murder charge.




Joseph Harris found his mother, Kathy Blair, dead on the floor of her bedroom in
their home. The ensuing police investigation indicated that Blair had been killed during the
burglary of her home, during which so

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United States of America v. Troy L. Bechtel

Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with fraud.

Troy L. Bechtel, 51, Overland Park, Kan., was charged with one count of making a false statement to a federal investigator. Bechtel admitted he lied during an investigation into allegations that United Medical Design Builders fraudulently received contracts from the Department of Defense through the Serv

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Stephen Cortez, Jr. v. The State of Texas

Austin, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Stephen Cortez, Jr. with a Capital Murder charge.



Sophia Arevalo testified that she had a daughter, J.A., with a man who was
incarcerated shortly after their daughter’s birth. His parents cared for J.A. while Arevalo worked
cleaning houses. Arevalo began dating Cortez

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Kendrick Tremayne Newman v. The State of Texa

Austin, TX - Criminal defense attorney represented Kendrick Tremayne Newman with a Murder charge.



A jury convicted Newman of murdering John Ammon after an altercation inside a
convenience store. The medical examiner determined that Ammon sustained eleven gunshot
wounds to his body causing his death. The jury heard test

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United States of America v. Bartell Drug, Inc.

Seattle, Washington controlled substance act violation criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Bartell Drug, Inc., with violating the Controlled Substances Act by filling invalid prescriptions.

“For many, the descent into opioid abuse begins with improper prescriptions. That’s why it is critical that our pharmacists serve as a check to keep the public safe,” said U.S. Attorney Mor

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James Joe Bridgefarmer v. The State of Texas

Fort Worth, Texas - Criminal defense atty represented defendant James Joe Bridgefarmer with a Continuous Sexual Abuse of Young Child or Children charge.




A. The Complainant’s Testimony
The complainant, who was sixteen years old at the time of the trial, testified
that her mother was previously married to Appellan

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United States of America v. Timothy Baxter

Abingdon, Virginia providing false information criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Timothy Baxter, who was charged with a one-count misdemeanor Information related to Indivior’s false and misleading representations to the Massachusetts Medicaid program (MassHealth) regarding Suboxone, a drug approved for recovering opioid addicts to avoid or reduce withdrawal symptoms.

Defend

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United States of America v. David M. Fulkerson and Nathaniel Stewart III

Newark, New Jersey health care fraud criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants, David M. Fulkerson and Nathaniel Stewart III, who were charged with submitting medically unnecessary prescriptions for compounded medications.

David M. Fulkerson, 48, of Indiana, and Nathaniel Stewart III, 38, of South Carolina, pleaded guilty to separate informations charging them with conspiracy to com

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Maurice Ranier Brown v. The State of Texas

Fort Worth, Texas - Criminal defense atty represented defendant Maurice Ranier Brown with a Aggravated Sexual Assault charge.



Both of Brown’s points focus on the testimony of the State’s expert witness,
Nurse Pamela Simmons. We limit our factual discussion to the evidence relevant to
Brown’s two points.
A. Hearing

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Aaron Rios v. The State of Texas

Little Rock, AR - Criminal defense atty represented defendant Aaron Rios with a Capital Murder charge.




Joel Rios—who was unrelated to Appellant—testified that on January 12, 2016,
while he was outside smoking a cigarette after dark, his neighbor came up to him and
said that he had been shot, so Rios called 911. T

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United States of America v. Kathryn Nikole Russell

Memphis, TN - Conspiracy to distribute drugs criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Kathryn Nikole Russell, 41, of Memphis, was charged with conspiracy to distribute and dispense controlled substances. The defendant was charged in an April 2019 indictment as part of the first Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid (ARPO) Strike Force Takedown. https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtn/pr/us-atto

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Amy M. Hedtke v. The State of Texas

Fort Worth, Texas - Criminal defense atty represented defendant Amy M. Hedtke with disregarding a police officer’s lawful order charge.



Hedtke and her passenger, her 17-year-old son, were driving from Wichita Falls
to Ellis County for her son’s Boy Scout meeting when City of Rhome police officer
Bryan Pickler stopped H

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United States of America v. Yu Zhou

Columbus, OH - Theft of trade secrets criminal defense lawyer represented defendant accused of conspiring to steal exosome-related trade secrets concerning the research, identification and treatment of a range of pediatric medical conditions.

Yu Zhou, age 50, admitted to conspiring to steal scientific trade secrets related to exosomes and exosome isolation from Nationwide Children’s Hospi

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Dwight Goffney v. The State of Texas

Houston, Texas - Criminal defense atty represented defendant Roberto Mena with a Aggravated Assault charge.



The complainant, Roberto Mena, testified that in October 2015, he was
self-employed as a contractor. In October 2015, he did some remodeling work for
Tereza Demonbreun, the owner of a home at 451 Woodrail Street

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United States of America v. Teresita Lumanas Alquero and Providence Home Health and Providence Hospice

Houston, Texas Teresita Lumanas Alquero and Providence Home Health and Providence Hospice knowingly and willfully committed health care fraud by paying improper kickbacks for referrals of Medicare patients to her businesses.

Teresita Lumanas Alquero owned both entities at the time of the alleged violations but has since sold them.

�We cannot tolerate kickbacks, especially those

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United States of America v. Vancy Bridges

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented Vancy Bridges, age 76, who was charged with misprison of a felony.

Bridges worked as a doctor and supervised nurse practitioners for in-home patients. Bridges was unaware that that a co-worker had been previously convicted of healthcare-related fraud and had no medical training. In July 2016, Bridges observed a patient list for patients a

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Jonathan Bradshaw v. The State of Texas

Houston, Texas - Criminal defense atty represented defendant Jonathan Bradshaw with a Murder charge.




A jury convicted appellant Jonathan Bradshaw of murder and sentenced him
to 60 years’ imprisonment.1
In four issues on appeal, Bradshaw contends that (1) the
evidence is legally insufficient to support his co

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David Nino v. The State of Texas

Houston, Texas - Criminal defense atty represented defendant David Nino with indecency with a child and sexual assault of a child charges.



When the complainant, C.R., was twelve years old, appellant, her stepfather,
began sexually abusing her. Although C.R. did not know the precise number of
times the abuse occurred, sh

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Steven Wallace Hopkins v. The State of Texas

Houston, Texas - Criminal defense atty represented defendant Steven Wallace Hopkins with a Aggravated Sexual Assault charge.



A grand jury indicted Hopkins for aggravated sexual assault. The indictment
alleged that Hopkins intentionally and knowingly caused his mouth to contact the
sexual organ of J.S., a disabled indi

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Donald Chapman v. Ring's End, Inc.

New Haven, Connecticut - Employment law lawyer represented plaintiff, Donald Chapman, who sued Ring's End, Inc. on a Family & Medical Leave Act theory.

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Ex parte Octavian Becciu v. The State of Texas

Houston, TX - Criminal defense atty represented defendant Octavian Becciu with writ of habeas corpus seeking to set aside the order of deferred adjudication on the basis that his guilty plea was not voluntary.




On December 16, 2011, appellant was involved in an altercation with his
girlfriend, and he was arrested an

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