Sexual Assault Law
 
United States of America v. Nicholas Ferlando Haynie

Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute Cocaine and Heroin. Following a trial in September 2025, a federal jury convicted an Arkansas man of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Nicholas Ferlando Haynie, 45, of Camden, Arkansas, was a member of a dru

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United States of America v. Jamon Charles Phetsacksith

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country. In May 2025, Jamon Charles Phetsacksith, 27, was indicted for one count of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury in Indian Country. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, in November 2024, Phetsacksith was drinking and hanging

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United States of America v. Gustavo Gordillo

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of children. In July 2020, public record reflects that Oklahoma City Police Department (OCPD) investigators received a cyber tip after files containing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) were uploaded to a Google Photos account. The investigation revealed that the individual who uploaded

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United States of America v. Benjamin Charles Fisher

Wichita, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography. Benjamin Charles Fisher, 44, of Clearwater, admitted to using a social media messaging platform to correspond with other sex offenders to trade child sexual abuse materials. He used multiple alias accounts and connected to the internet from his home and from his work while committi

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State of New Mexico v. Timothy Busfield

Albuquerque, New Mexico, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual abuse of a minor. Timothy Busfield, accused of abusing a 7 year old boy on the set of “The Cleaning Lady,” a TV series Busfield directed and acted in.

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United States of America v. Austin Riley Jensen

St. George, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with r producing and receiving child sexual abuse material involving a 15-year-old victim. Law enforcement found communications between Austin Riley Jensen, 33, of Hurricane, Utah, and an individual on federal supervised release in Las Vegas, Nevada, which occurred between October 2022 and December 2022, containing ima

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State of Arizona v. Jeremiah Bagby and Jalen Bails-Bacchus

Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with aggravated assault, disorderly conduct, concealing a deadly weapon posses JJeremiah Bagby age 22 and 19-year-old Jalen Bails-Bacchus got into an argument with 53-year-old John Lathrop who tried to hit them. The responded by pulling guns that they pointed and Lathrop.

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State of Oklahoma v. C.M.F.

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with domestic assault and battery by strangulation.

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United States of America v. Graham S. Gattis, aka "Dro"

Kansas City, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with armed assault against a member of rival motorcycle club. Graham S. Gattis, also known as “Dro,” 41, of East Ridge, Tennesse. was charged with one count of assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering, and one count of possession of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. On Se

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United States of America v. David S. Becker

St. Louis, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with receiving and distributing child pornography and attempted coercion and enticement of a minor. In August, jurors in U.S. District Court in St. Louis found Becker guilty of one count of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor and one count of possession of child pornography. Trial evidence and testimony show

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United States of America v. Carlan Travis Penney, Jr.

St. Louis, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with coercion, enticement, and transportation of minor for sexual purposes. Carlan Travis Penney Jr., now 46, pleaded guilty in October to coercion and enticement of a minor and transportation of a minor across state lines with the intent to engage in illegal sexual activity. He admitted meeting the 15-year-old onlin

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United States of America v. Robert Silva

Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with production of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2251. Robert Silva, agte 52, of Waipahu, Hawaii, admitted that on multiple occasions in 2018 and 2019, he paid adults in the Philippines to sexually abuse children there during live internet video streams. While in Hawaii, Silva created recordings of thes

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United States of America v. State of Montana v. John Doe A and John Doe B

Billings, Montana, criminal lawyer represent the Defendants charged with five counts of assault with a weapon. The Defendant were accused of committing drive-by shooting involving two cars where several rounds were fired from one car at another car before both drove away.

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State of Arizona v. Joanna Chalup Cortez

Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyer represents Defendant charged with aggravated assault and discharging a gun inside a home. Joanna Chalup Cortez, age 29, accused for discharging a firearm during a domestic dispute that hit her son who is expected to survive.

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State of Louisiana v. Troy Rodriguez

Gretna, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with multiple counts for raping and sexually abusing four children over the course of several years. Troy Rodriguez, 49, of Bay St. Louis, was arrested following an investigation by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office and booked with three counts each of first-degree rape of a victim under 13, molestation of a victim u

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United States of America v. Kari Eugene Leslie

Phoenix, Arizona, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with with sexual abuse and kidnapping. Karl Eugene Leslie, 42, of Whiteriver, Arizona, is charged in a 15-count indictment, returned Dec. 23, 2025, with Aggravated Sexual Abuse, Kidnapping (including one count of Kidnapping-Victim Under 18), Sexual Abuse through Fear, Sexual Abuse through Coercion, and Deprivation of Ri

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United States of America v. Mark Stephen Gullings

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with production of child pornography. In October 2022, Mark Stephen Gullings, age 44, surreptitious photos of a minor female living in his home and under his care while she was in the bathroom. Gullings would put his phone under the bathroom door or over the shower curtain to take pictures of the juvenile’s

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State of Texas v. Alexander Pena

San Antonio, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, one count of assault causing bodily injury and one count of interfering with an emergency request for assistance. Alexander Pena, age 29, was fighting with another person around 6:15 p.m. Saturday near the entrance of the zoo at Brackenridge Park. When a 42

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United States of America v. Randi L. Cook

Green Bay, Wisconsin, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Interstate travel with intent to engage in a sexual act with a minor, coercing or enticing a minor for unlawful sexual activity, and production of child pornography. on December 23, 2025, Randi L. Cook (age: 24) of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was charged in a criminal complaint with interstate travel with intent to e

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United States of America v. Ana M. Hernandez

Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged assault for throwing incendiary device onto her neighbors’ porch. On March 16, 2024, ANA M. HERNANDEZ threw a glass bottle containing oil and a washcloth—a device commonly known as a “Molotov cocktail”—onto her neighbor’s back porch in Chicago. The incendiary device started a fire on the wooden porch, bu

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United States of America v. Jason Baca

Albuquerque, New Mexico, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm. 18:922(g)(1) and 924: Felon in Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition; 18:111(a) and (b): Assault on a Federal Officer; 18:924(c)(1)(A)(ii): Brandishing a Firearm During and in Relation to, and in Furtherance of, a Crime of Violence. An Albuquerque man is federally charged

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United States of America v. Jamon Charles Phetsarcsith

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country.

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State of Oklahoma v. John Joseph Hogan

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and failure to restrain dangerous dog. A. It is unlawful for the owner of any dog that previously has: 1. When unprovoked inflicted bites on any person or severely injured any person either on public or private property; or 2. When unprovoked created an imminent threa

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United States of America v. Alexis Aldair Chavez

San Antonio, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession and distribution of child pornography. Alexis Aldair Chavez coerced minors to commit heinous and cruel acts of self-harm. According to court documents, Alexis Aldair Chavez, also known as Zack and Zack8884, 19, was an administrator and online leader of the ‘8884’ network, which is a network r

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United States of America v. Jamar Tywone Kimpson

Columbia, South Carolina, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of firearms. In 2021, workers at a local FedEx hub found three suspicious packages with a strong odor of marijuana. All three were addressed to the same person at an address in Swansea, South Carolina with return addresses of the recipient’s same name and address. Law enforcement e

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