Wrongful Death Law
 

Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico criminal defense lawyer representing the Defendants charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

Leon Law and Isaiah Nicholas Maestas, both age 15, were accused of death of Monica Carter, age 43, whose body was found in May 2025.

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Ann Barclay Dewet, et al. v. G. Russell Rollyson, Jr., et al.

Bluefield, West Virginia, civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a 42 U.S.C. 1983 taking without due process.


Smith owned real property in West Virginia. She failed to pay the real estate taxes
assessed for 2016, and the Mercer County Sheriff sold a tax lien on the property to Boer.

Boer then sought a tax deed to the property. He prepared a list of those to be

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Linda Dill v. Stephanie Sodegren

Tulsa, Oklahoma personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a wrongful death claim.

The Plaintiff claimed that the Defendant caused an accident that occurred at the intersection of East 41st Street and South Yale Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma on April 30, 2023 in which Teddy Bogle was killed. the Plaintiff further claimed that the Defendant failed to yield the right-of-way.

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United States of America v. Darryl Elliott

Williamsport, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs resulting in death.

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United States of America v. Carlos Ramirez, a/k/a “Guerra”

New York, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a racketeering conspiracy and two murders.

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, announced that CARLOS RAMIREZ, a/k/a “Guerra,” was sentenced today to life in prison for his participation in a racketeering conspiracy and two murders committed as a member of th

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State of New York v. Donald Ziebenhood

New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of Burglary in the First Degree, two counts of Burglary in the Second Degree, one count of Assault in the Second Degree, two counts of Aggravated Criminal Contempt, eight counts of Criminal Contempt in the First Degree, and one count of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Fourth Degree.

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State of Idaho v. Robin Lee Row

Boise, Idaho, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with capital murder.

Robin Lee Row was sentenced to death in 1993 for murdering her husband and two
children in their sleep on February 10, 1992. Over the next 30 years, Row filed five petitions for
post-conviction relief in state court and two federal habeas corpus claims, all of which were
unsuccessful.

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United States of America v. Kaylee Ann Widmer

Scranton, PA criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone and 40 grams and more of fentanyl resulting in death

Kaylee Ann Widmer, age 25, of Thornhurst, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 21 years’ for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone and 40 grams and more of fentanyl r

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United States of America v. Richard Burk

Williamsport, PA criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Wire Fraud


Richard Burke, age 76, of Milan, Pennsylvania, plead guilty to wire fraud.


From April 2005 until March 7, 2022, Burke withdrew $350,634.23 of his deceased mother’s Social Security Retirement, Survivors and Disability (RSDI) benefits and Veterans Affairs death pension benef

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State of Missouri v. Craig Jones

St. Louis, Missouri, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action.

Craig Jones, age 22, was accused for bludgeoning and stabbing his sister to death.

Police said Jones attacked his sister unprovoked, striking her in the head several times with a seven-pound dumbbell, and then stabbing her several times with a steak

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United States of America v. Quintron Dixon

Syracuse, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of a controlled substance and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance

Quintron Dixon, age 22, of Syracuse, pled guilty today to distribution of a controlled substance and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. Acting United States Attorney John A. Sarcon

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United States of America v. Elvis Trujillo, Yeferson Vallecillo Cambar

Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with “racketeering conspiracy” or “RICO conspiracy”

Two Honduran nationals have been extradited to the United States to face racketeering charges. Each defendant – both of whom are alleged members of the Trinitarios – is charged with participating in two murders. They are

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Janice Hughes Barners, et al. v. Roberto Felix, Jr., et al.

Houston, Texas, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a excessive force wrongful death civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983.

Ashtian Barners was shot and killed by Officer Roberto Felix, Jr. during a traffic stop.

Barnes’s parents sued Felix and Harris County under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.5 The district court granted summary judgment on th

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United States of America v. Ameen Alai, aka Adam Powars

Denver, Colorado criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of distribution of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of ibogaine.

he United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Ameen Alai, aka Adam Powars, 52, of Broomfield, Colorado, was sentenced to 48 months in prison after pleading guilty to one c

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United States of America v. Cruz Javier Garcia

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Trafficking 40 Pounds of Methamphetamine and Cocaine in Utah

Cruz Javier Garcia, 39, of Bland, Virginia, was sentenced today to 246 months’ imprisonment and a five-year term of supervised release for trafficking 40 pounds of methamphetamine and cocaine while in the District of Utah.

Garcia

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Family and Estate of Wongel Estifanos, et al. v. Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park, et al.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a wrongful death claim.

Wongel Estifanos, age 6, fell to her death while riding on the Haunted Mine Drop at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park.

The child was never buckled into the ride.

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United States of America v. Benjamin Madrigal-Birrueta

San Diego, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Murdering Couple and their Unborn Child During Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

Benjamin Madrigal-Birrueta, an undocumented Mexican national living in Yakima, Washington, admitted in federal court today that he murdered a man and his six-months-pregnant wife while they were engaged in a drug trafficking cons

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State of New York v. David Kingsley, Mathew Galliher, Nicholas Kieffer, and Michael Fisher

New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with three counts of second-degree murder and one count of second-degree manslaughter.

David Kingsley, Mathew Galliher and Nicholas Kieffer, were charged with second-degree murder, and Michael Fisher, was charged with second-degree manslaughter.

The Defendants were implicated in the brutal beating

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Dist State of New York v. Richard J. Fox

Buffalo, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of second-degree murder.

Between on or about 2003 and 2004, the defendant intentionally caused the death of Cassandra Watson at a location in the City of Buffalo. On September 26, 2021, a hiker found a human skull while walking along the Chautauqua Rails to Trails near Woleben Road in the Town of

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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Alexis Herrera

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder.

Alexis Herrera, 25, was charged with first-degree murder in the 2020 death of 3-year-old Bella Seachrist

According to the criminal complaint, Herrera lived with her sister, Laura Ramriez, Bella’s stepmother, and Ramriez’s husband, Jose Salazar-Ortiz Sr., Bel

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State of Michigan v. Michael Simone Abby-Wills (Det

Detroit, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with:
1. Murder - 2nd Degree -
2 counts
2. OWI - Causing Death -
2 counts
3. Reckless Driving -
Causing Death - 2 counts
4. Operating While
License Suspended,
Revoked, or Denied -
Causing Death - 2 counts

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State of Florida v. Quandarious Hammond, Zvante Sampson, Jaylin Bedward, Andrew Thompson, and James Denson

Tampa, Florida, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with first-degree murder.

Quandarious Hammond, Zvante Sampson, Jaylin Bedward, Andrew Thompson, and James Denson were accused of shooting and killing Suni Bell, age 4.

In August 2021, Suni was in the backseat of the family’s silver Infiniti as they drove along Hillsborough Avenue in Tampa. Surveill

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State of Georgia v. Angel Marie Thompson

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder.



Angel Marie Thompson had been previously charged with concealing the death of her 24-year-old girlfriend Nicole Alston and stealing her iden

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State of South Carolina v. Brian Randell Sease

Charleston, South Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Voluntary Manslaughter, Armed Robbery, and Possession of a Weapon During the Commission of a Violent Crime.

Brian Randell Sease was indicted for murdering 22-year-old Travis Green, Jr. on October 30, 2021.

Assistant Solicitors Cassity Brewer and Hunt Russell presented the State’s c

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State of Colorado v. Daniel Ryan Clark

Arvada, Colorado, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with tampering with a deceased human body, abuse of a corpse, and tampering with physical evidence.

Daniel Ryan Clark, age 31, is under investigation regading the death of 20-year-old woman whose body was found in a block box.

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