Mitigation Law
 
United States of America v. Jeffrey Olsen

Pasadena, California - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with an illegally prescribing opioids charge.



The panel (1) amended its opinion filed April 23, 2021,
reversing the district court’s judgment dismissing with
prejudice an indictment charging Jeffrey Olsen on 34 counts
related to the unlawful d

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United States of America v.Jeffrey Olsen

San Francisco - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with an illegally prescribing opioids charge.



The panel (1) amended its opinion filed April 23, 2021,
reversing the district court’s judgment dismissing with
prejudice an indictment charging Jeffrey Olsen on 34 counts
related to the unlawful distribut

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United States of America v. Derichebourg Recycling, USA, Inc.

Houston, Texas environmental law lawyers represented Defendant charged with violating the Clean Air Act.

Derichebourg Recycling USA Inc. (Derichebourg) of Houston was accused of Clean Air Act violations at 10 scrap metal recycling facilities in Texas and Oklahoma.

The federal complaint filed simultaneously with the consent decree alleges that Derichebourg failed to recover refr

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United States of America v. Sultan Issa

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with embezzling tens of millions of dollars charge. He now appeals his sentence, claiming that the district court violated his due process rights by erroneously admitting and relying upon sentencing submissions from victims of his crimes.




Sultan Issa engaged in a

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United States of America v. Ronnie Martin

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with possessing heroin with the intent to distribute charge.



Ronnie Martin was sentenced to 43 months’
imprisonment for possessing heroin with the intent to distribute. 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). With his direct appeal of his sentence pending, Martin moved for comp

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United States of America v. Ricky Fackrell and Christopher Cramer

New Orleans, LA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with the June 2014 prison murder of Leo Johns charge.



Fackrell has several previous convictions, including convictions for
aggravated assault, robbery, and possession of a prohibited object. His prison
record denotes several instances of misconduct includ

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United States of America v. Michael Slager

Richmond, VA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with argueing that the district court reversibly erred in setting his sentence by: (1) using second-degree murder as the sentencing cross-reference for his offense rather than voluntary manslaughter, and (2) applying a two-level enhancement for obstruction of justice.



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United States of America v. James Quay a/k/a Stephen Jameson

Philadelphia, PA - Securities Fraud lawyer represented defendant with
two counts of securities fraud charges.



Quay, a former attorney and investment advisor, pleaded guilty to two counts of
securities fraud in 2019. Over the two decades prior to this conviction, he participated in
several schemes selling fraudulent

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United States of America v. Angel Rafael Contreras-Delgado

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a possessing a machine gun charge.



Because this appeal follows a guilty plea, we draw the
facts from the change-of-plea colloquy, the undisputed portions of
the PSR, and the transcript of the sentencing hearing. United
States v. Arias-Mercedes, 901 F.

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United States of America v. Aletsys Calderón-Lozano

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a conspiracy to launder monetary instruments charge. He now challenges the procedural and substantive reasonableness of his sentence



Between February 25 and 26, 2016, Calderón-Lozano and an
undercover Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”) agent arranged

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United States of America v. RILEY BRIONES, JR.

San Francisco, CA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with murder charge.

We must decide whether a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole imposed on a juvenile is valid



Riley Briones, Jr., a Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian,
was a founder and leader of the “Eastside Crips R

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United States of America v. Adel Daoud

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with
soliciting a crime of violence, (Count 1); murder-for-hire, (Count 2); and obstruction of justice (Count 3) charges.



A. FBI Investigation and Bomb Plot
Daoud came to the FBI’s attention after a series of online
posts, communications, and se

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United States of America v. Devin Dawson

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a
conspiring to transport stolen property in interstate commerce charge. He also violated the conditions of his supervised release after his release from prison by possessing a loaded, semiautomatic firearm.



Dawson received his original prison sentenc

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Nathson Fields v. City of Chicago

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented Plaintiff-Appellee with asserting claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law against the City of Chicago and individuals including several Chicago police officers as well as two former Cook County prosecutors. He claims they fabricated evidence and withholding exculpatory evidence in a criminal investigatio

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United States of America v. Andre Hatcher, Jr.

Cleveland, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with
felon in possession of a firearm and escape charges.



On March 16, 2017, Andre Hatcher, Jr. escaped from the Oriana House Residential
Reentry Center (RCC), where he was confined by virtue of a forty-six-month sentence for felon
in possessio

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United States of America v. James Quay a/k/a Stephen Jameson

New York, NY - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with
two counts of securities fraud charges.



Quay, a former attorney and investment advisor, pleaded guilty to two counts of
securities fraud in 2019. Over the two decades prior to this conviction, he participated in
several schemes selling fraudu

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MARCIA MELENDEZ, et al v. CITY OF NEW YORK et al.

New York, NY - Constitutional law lawyer represented Plaintiffs who sued the City and various named City officials seeking a judgment declaring the challenged laws unconstitutional and for an injunction permanently enjoining their enforcement.



In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments at all
levels—federal

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United States of America v. Dr. Harold Altvater

Boston, MA - Securities Fraud lawyer represented defendant with three counts of securities fraud for insider trading charges.



Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Ariad") is a small
Cambridge-based pharmaceutical company whose shares are traded on
the NASDAQ exchange. Altvater's then-wife, Maureen Curran, joined

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United States of America v. HÉCTOR GARCÍA-CARTAGENA, a/k/a/ Arana

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with possessing drugs with intent to distribute and domestic abuse charge.se



Let's start with the basics. To recommend sentences for
supervised release violators, the United States Sentencing
Guidelines rank new crimes with letter grades (A, B, and C).

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David Resnick v. United States of America

Chicago, IL- Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with aggravated sexual abuse of a minor and interstate transportation of child pornography charges. He now files a direct appeal from his convictions and life sentences.



hen reviewing a district court’s denial of a § 2255 motion, we review factual findings fo

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State of Wisconsin v. Kyle H. Rittenhouse

Kenosha, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with two counts of first-degree reckless homicide, 1st-Degree Recklessly Endangering Safety, 1st-Degree Recklessly Endangering Safety, 1st-Degree Intentional HomicideAttempt 1st-Degree Intentional Homicide and Possess Dangerous Weapon-Person < 18.

Kyle Rittenhouse, DOB 01/03/2003, traveled from Illinois to Kenosha, W

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United States of America v. Jesus Beltran-Leon

Chicago, IL- Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances charges.



Jesus Raul Beltran-Leon (“Beltran”)
pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with
intent to distribute controlled substances, in violation o

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United States of America v. Jesse Ballard

Chicago, IL- Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a
being a felon in possession of a firearm charge.



Ballard pleaded guilty in this case to being a felon in possession of a firearm. This is, of course, a very serious and potentially dangerous crime.
At the first sentencing hearing, on October 22,

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United States of America v. Evaris Naomi García-Camacho

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with possession with intent to distribute a substance containing cocaine base and cocaine (Counts 1 and 2, respectively); possession with intent to distribute a substance containing marijuana (Count 3); and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime (Count 4) charges.

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United States of America v. Benny Ruperto-Rivera

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a
possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon charge.



We briefly rehearse the relevant facts and travel of the
case. Where, as here, "a sentencing appeal follows a guilty plea,
'we glean the relevant facts from the change-of-pl

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