Springfield, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with kidnapping and threatening to kill the victim and her family.

Jeffrey Marsh, 34, of Oronogo, Mo., pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit kidnapping, one count of kidnapping, one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, and one count of stalking.

Co-defendant Zaqouri Traves Arch... More...   $0 (07-07-2022 - MO)

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:
Distribution of A CDS- Cocaine

Count # 1. Count as Filed: ODO, DISTRIBUTION OF A CDS- COCAINE, in violation of 63 O.S. 2-401-2-420
Date of Offense: 12/11/2018
Party Name Disposition Information
WHATLEY, SUDARA LASHAY Disposed: DEFERRED, 06/14/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: DI... More...   $0 (06-29-2022 - OK)

New York, New York criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with violating the Mann Act.

R&B singer Robert Sylvester Kelly, a/k/a R. Kelly's musical career will come to a permanent end when he is sentenced on June 30, 2022. He was found guilty of violation the Mann Act on September 27, 2021 of sex trafficking women and girls.


The defendant, an international mu... More...   $0 (06-29-2022 - NY)

Billings, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sex trafficking and drug investigation that involved more than a dozen women and girls who were forced by threats and violence into prostitution in Montana.

Louis Gregory Venning, also known as “December,” 42, pleaded guilty in November 2021 to sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, sex trafficking of ... More...   $0 (06-27-2022 - MT)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with sex trafficking, arising from his forcible coercion of a minor to engage in prostitution.

In September 2018, Rodney Kent a/k/a "Hot Rodd" was charged by Indictment for sex trafficking of a minor via force, fraud and coercion stemming from his actions to traffic the victim. The defendant and the victim fi... More...   $0 (06-17-2022 - PA)

Montgomery, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with coercing several victims, including a minor, to engage in prostitution over the course of several years.

Lonnie Dontae Mitchell, age 36, targeted vulnerable victims who struggled with drug addictions, and then manipulated their drug addictions for his benefit. He increased the victims’ use of heroin and encou... More...   $0 (06-17-2022 - AL)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with child sexual exploitation.

Gregory Mancini traveled to Georgia from Erie, Pennsylvania for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a 13-year-old boy. Upon arriving in Georgia, Mancini traveled to meet with the boy and was subsequently taken into custody by the Hall County, Georgia Sheriff’... More...   $0 (06-10-2022 - PA)

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with international sex trafficking organization operating dozens of illegal Asian brothels in the United States, Canada and Australia.

Zongtao Chen aka Mark Chen, 49, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, led a criminal enterprise that recruited women, primarily from China, to travel to the United States and elsewhere to engage... More...   $0 (06-09-2022 - OR)

Ocala, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant who was charged with two counts lewd molestation of a child under 12.

800.04 Lewd or lascivious offenses committed upon or in the presence of persons less than 16 years of age.—
(1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section:
(a) “Sexual activity” means the oral, anal, or vaginal penetration by, or union with, th... More...   $0 (06-03-2022 - FL)

Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with trafficking minor and young adult victims throughout the mid-Atlantic region.

Anthony Jones, 38, of Wilmington, Delaware, was convicted by a federal jury in April 2019 following a 14-day trial. Jones was found guilty of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors by force, fraud or coercion, and of sex ... More...   $0 (06-03-2022 - DE)

White Plains, New York criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with communicating online with an individual he believed to be a 14-year-old girl and attempting to meet the girl to engage in sexual activities and record the activities.

According to the allegations in the Complaint[1] filed yesterday in White Plains federal court:

Beginning on April 24, 2022, a detect... More...   $0 (06-01-2022 - NY)

Buffalo, New York criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity.

Between October 8, 2020, and January 9, 2021, Michael Mesko, age 52, of Cheektowaga, New York, engaged in a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old minor female (Victim 1), who was mentally disabled. Mesko communicated with Victim 1 via text message and mobile chat ap... More...   $0 (05-31-2022 - NY)

Albany, New York criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with attempted online enticement of a minor.

As part of his guilty plea, Warner admitted that between about October 2020 and January 15, 2021, he exchanged electronic messages, via text and through a social networking platform, with someone he believed to be the mother of an 11-year-old girl. In those messages, Warner... More...   $0 (05-26-2022 - NY)

Washington, DC: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, sex trafficking of minors, and related offenses.

Willis Lewis, age 48, and Brittany Jones, age 32, were indicted for sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, sex trafficking of minors, and related offenses, in connection with their trafficking of a 15-year-old... More...   $0 (05-24-2022 - DC)

Wichita Falls, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with indecency with an 8-year=old child and continuing for 10 years.

Andrew Riggs, age 46, was charged with sexual indecency with a child. The child testified that Defendant abused her during the entire time that he dated her mother who caught him abusing her.

Title 5 Texas Penal Code Sec. 21.01 provides:... More...   $0 (05-23-2022 - TX)

Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with participating in a sex trafficking conspiracy.

Matthew Engram, 35, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion; two counts of transportation of an individual for purposes of prostitution; and one count of conspiracy to commit interstate travel in aid of a r... More...   $0 (05-20-2022 - MA)

Tallahassee, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with coercing or enticing a minor to engage in prostitution.

Jirard Quin Kincherlow, age 40, of Montgomery Alabama, was convicted by a federal jury on June 11, 2021, finding Kincherlow guilty on the sole count of coercing or enticing a minor to engage in prostitution.

“This sentence is yet another examp... More...   $0 (05-16-2022 - FL)

Buffalo, New York criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with sex trafficking and drug conspiracies.

• Lairon Graham a/k/a Shah a/k/a Uncle Shah a/k/a Unc – 64, Buffalo, NY
• Kimberly Udrea – 34, Buffalo, NY
• Thomas Degree a/k/a Tommy – 57, Fairborn, GA
• Joseph Ward – 58, Buffalo, NY
• Jordan Davis a/k/a Little Corn a/k/a Baby Corn – ... More...   $0 (05-12-2022 - NY)

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with:
Falsely Personate Another to Create Liability

Count # 1. Count as Filed: FFP, FALSELY PERSONATE ANOTHER TO CREATE LIABILITY, in violation of 21 O.S. 1531.4
Date of Offense: 02/12/2019
Party Name Disposition Information
RICE, DESTINY Disposed: DEFERRED, 09/12/2019. Guilty Plea
Count as D... More...   $0 (05-09-2022 - OK)

Knoxville, Tennessee civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiffs-Appellants, who sued Defendant on a Amendment Violation theory.

The First Amendment does not “constitutionalize the employee
grievance.” Connick v. Myers, 461 U.S. 138, 154 (1983). But that is what police officers
Christopher Anderson and J.J. Hatmaker seek, asking us to second-guess the city’s decision to fi... More...   $0 (05-02-2022 - TN)

Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion.

Between January and March 2019, Darnell Deshawn Stennis, 30, transported one woman around the Midwest, using threats and physical violence to force the woman into performing commercial sex acts. In March of 2019, Stennis transported a second woman between Minneso... More...   $0 (04-27-2022 - MN)

Jay, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with child sexual abuse.

Defendant confessed to the crime but took the stand in his own defense.

21 O.S. 843. 5 provides:

A. Any person who shall willfully or maliciously engage in child abuse, as defined in this section, shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the ... More...   $0 (04-20-2022 - OK)

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)

Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with sex trafficking an adult victim by force, fraud, and coercion; five years for facilitation of prostitution; and 40 years for distribution of a controlled substance to a person under the age of 21.

According to evidence presented at the four and a half-day trial and court documents submitted for sentencing, Redd u... More...   $0 (03-25-2022 - IA)

Sacramento, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sex trafficking a minor.

Robert Pierre Duncan, age 26, of Sacramento was charged with of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of a child, sex trafficking of a child, and escape from custody.

Between September and October 2018, Duncan recruited a 17-year-old girl to engage in prostitution in Oakla... More...   $0 (03-09-2022 - CA)