Statute of Fraud Law
 
United States of America v. Ryan R. Vandyke

Pocatello, Idaho, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.

Section 922(g)(8)(C)(ii) prohibits firearm possession by an individual subject to a court order that “by its terms
explicitly prohibits the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against [an] intimate partner or child that
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State of Oregon v. Benjamin Guthrie Koteen

McMinnville, Oregon, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of driving under the influence of intoxicants, ORS 813.010.

Defendant sought to suppress vidence that derived from a traffic stop. He contended that the officer who stopped him lacked probable cause to believe that defendant committed the offense of "failure to drive within a lane" as set forth

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United States of America v. Kirill Afanasyev

San Francisco, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud.

Jose Vicente Badillo, Kirill Afanasyev, Jason Naraja, and Jaime Respicio conspired to defraud an auto insurance company by submitting a fraudulent insurance claim on a wrecked car that Afanasyev purchased in May 2019. The Indictment alleges that, when Afanasyev bought

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United States of America v. James L. Hattten, II

Omaha, Nebraska, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking a minor in violation of 18 U.S. 1591.

Federal and state laws treat
trafficking a minor as a severe felony, defining a minor as anyone under the age of 18. A key component of these laws is that a minor cannot legally consent to commercial sex acts or forced labor, meaning prosecutors do not

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United States of America v. Nicholas G. Brown

Omaha, Nebraska, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud.

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Justin Hooper v. The City of Tulsa

Justin Hooper and the City of Tulsa dispute whether the Curtis Act, 30 Stat. 495 (1898), grants Tulsa jurisdiction over municipal violations committed by all Tulsa’s inhabitants, including Indians, in Indian country. Tulsa issued a traffic citation to Mr. Hooper, an Indian and member of the Choctaw Nation, and he paid a $150 fine for the ticket in Tulsa’s Municipal Criminal Court (“municipal

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CITY OF TULSA, Appellant v. NICHOLAS RYAN O'BRIEN, Appellee

¶1 Appellee, Nicholas Ryan O'Brien, was charged by Information in the Municipal Criminal Court of the City of Tulsa with the following misdemeanor traffic crimes:

Case No. 720766, Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol, in violation of City of Tulsa Revised Ordinances Title 37, § 649;

Case No. 720766A, Transporting an Open Container, in violation of City of Tuls

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United States of America v. Corey Ray Fields

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

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Christine M. Arnold v. Ameren Illinois Company

East St. Louis, Illinois, civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff.

In 2018, Arnold filed a charge with the Illinois
Department of Human Rights and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
alleging that her employer, Ameren Illinois Company, discriminated against her. A year
later, the IDHR dismissed the charge for lack of substantial evidence. The IDHR’s notice

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United States of America v. Matthew Ramos-Soto

Madison, Wisconsin, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, see 18
U.S.C. §§ 1343, 1349.

In 2022 and 2023, Ramos-Soto and other conspirators participated in a wire-fraud scheme that targeted elderly Wisconsin residents. Under the scheme, conspirators operating in Canada—called the victims and claimed to be a relative or a rel

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United States of America v. Charles “Chuck” Wright, Amos Durham, Lawson B. Watson

Spartanburg, South Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit theft.

Charles “Chuck” Wright, 60, the former sheriff of Spartanburg County; Amos Durham 61, a former chaplain for the department; and Lawson B. Watson 63, a former employee, have pleaded guilty for their participation in a public corruption scheme that defrauded the county

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Texas Department of Family and Protective Services v, D.V.

Austin, Texas, family law lawyer represent Defendant in a parental termination action.

As future-Chief Justice Pope explained for the Court nearly half a century ago, for example, "[a]ctions which break the ties between a parent and child can never be justified without the most solid and substantial reasons," and so "in an action which permanently sunders those ties," the "proceedings [sh

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State of Colorado v. John Hallford and Carie Hallford

Colorado Springs, Colorado criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with fraud.

Carie Hallford and her husband, Jon Hallford, owned Return to Nature Funeral Home and are accused of dumping the bodies in a building in a rural town between 2019 and 2023, giving families fake ashes and defrauding the federal government out of nearly $900,000.

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United States of America v. C.R. Kraus, a/k/a Christopher Kraus

Newark, New Jersey, riminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with healthcare fraud, conspiracy to commit the same, and tax evasion.

Just because two witnesses recall events differently does not mean that either is lying let alone that the prosecution should know it. Harry Pizutelli managed New Jersey’s fund o help people with traumatic brain injuries. He fell in love wit

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United States of America v.

Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with stealing checks out of the mail.

U.S. Attorney Julianne E. Murray of the District of Delaware announced today that a Wilmington man was sentenced on September 18, 2025, to 70 months in prison for amassing over $900,000 in fraudulent proceeds through multiple fraud schemes over the course of years.

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Alicia Rowe v. State Mutual Insurance Company

Belfast, Maine insurance lawyer represented the Plaintiff who brought a reach-and-apply action that Rowe brought pursuant to 24-A M.R.S. § 2904 (2019).[1] See Ashe v. Enter. Rent-A-Car, 2003 ME 147, ¶ 14, 838 A.2d 1157 ("The reach and apply statute . . . enables a judgment creditor to have insurance money applied to the satisfaction of [a] judgment by bringing an action against the judgment debt

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Randy Ball v. Roman Catholic Bishop of Manchester and others.

Concord, New Hampshire, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a negligence theory.

Randy Ball, sued the Roman Catholic Bishop of Manchester and Camp Bernadette and Camp Fatima, Inc. the defendants) that alleged negligent hiring, retention, and supervision of an employee who sexually abused him when he attended camp in the 1970s.

In 2005, the legislature enacted RSA

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Christopher B. Norman v. Tranam Systems International, Inc. and Masaru Brook Iwata

Tulsa, Oklahoma personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a fraud theory.

Plaintiff claimed that Iwata represented that the was the Chief Operating Office of TransAm and it needed a loan of $75,000.

The money was loaned but the loan was not repaid.

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United States of America v. Peter Bardunias

Albany, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Attempted Enticement of a Minor.

Peter Bardunias, age 59, of Clifton Park, New York, was charged today with attempting to entice a minor to engage in prohibited sexual activity. Acting United States Attorney John A. Sarcone III and Craig L. Tremaroli, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the F

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The State of Oklahoma v. In the Matter of L.M., an alleged Deprived Child.Rebecca Mireles and James Moody

Durant, Oklahoma, family law lawyer represented the Defendants in a termination of parental rights case.

¶ 1 In this consolidated appeal, the biological parents of L.M. appeal a trial court judgment terminating their parental rights based on separate jury verdicts finding: (1) Rebecca Mireles (Mother) has a mental illness, and (2) both James Moody (Father) and Mother have failed to corr

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United States of America v. Tania Cesar

Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud and 5 counts of health care fraud.

When reviewing the substantive reasonableness of a prison sentence, courts consider the totality of the circumstances under a defrential abuse-of-discretion standard. Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 51 (2007). The party

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United States of America v. Leonard Brown, aka Bo

Miami, Florida pro se plaintiff, without the help of a lawyer, sent a letter to the judge asking for the appoint of a laywer to help him with an application for a sentenced reduction under the First Step Act. The District court denied his application.

A district court has no inherent authority to modify a defendant’s sentence and may do so “only when authorized by a
statute or ru

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United States of America v. Clonet Junior Charmant

Tallahassee, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempt and conspiracy to commit fail fraud and bank fraud.

harmant was sentenced to 26 months of imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for his involvement in a fraud conspiracy. When Charmant began his supervised release term in October 2023, he had to comply with certain conditions, including: (

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United States of America v. Sharon Toney‑Finch a

New York, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Wire Fraud And Stolen Valor.

A former Stoughton police officer who was previously indicted for allegedly murdering Sandra Birchmore, a pregnant woman, to prevent her from disclosing information about his sexual exploitation of her beginning when she was a minor, has been indicted for allegedly causing the de

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United States of America v. Byron Cordell Thomas

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of sex
trafficking and one count of possessing a gun as a convicted felon.

Mr. Thomas claimed the statute required proof “that force, fraud, or coercion was actually ‘used to
cause’ an individual to engage in a commercial sex act, thereby depriving that individual of valid consent to

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