Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant who was charged with multiple counts of capital murder.

Chad Daybell, age 55, was chargee in the deaths of his former wife, Tammy Daybell, and two children of his current wife, Lori Vallow Daybell.

Tammy Daybell died in late 2019. Vallow Daybell's two youngest children, Tylee Ryan and Joshua Jaxon "JJ" Vallow. Tylee ... More...    $0 (05-30-2024 - ID)

Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with interstate stalking.

Between October 7 and December 24, 2020, Joel Waters, age 44, traveled between Oregon and Idaho to harass and intimidate the victim who was residing in Boise. Waters took dogs from the victim’s home and car, slashed the tires on the victim’s vehicle, set fire to the victim’s residence in O... More...    $0 (08-25-2023 - ID)

Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud.

From March 2019 through March 2022, Elijah A. Johnson, age 32, of Chicago, Illinois, was part a bank fraud conspiracy that obtained victim bank account information, impersonated account holders, and created and cashed counterfeit checks to obtain money. On part of the conspiracy, Jo... More...    $0 (07-14-2023 - ID)

Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of a child.

An investigation was begun of Benjamin Morton, age 39, of Nampa, Idaho, when the Boise Police Department (BPD) received information that an adult male, pretending to be a juvenile online, had arranged to meet the 14-year-old victim. BPD later identified Morton as the suspect and determ... More...    $0 (05-09-2023 - ID)

Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and grand theft.

Lori Vallow, age 49, was accused by the State of Idaho of killing her daughter Tylee ray, age 16, soen Joshua "JJ" Vallow, age 7, and Tammy Daybell, age 49, in 2019.

The State alleged and produced evidence to support its position that Vallow co... More...    $0 (05-12-2023 - ID)

Pocatello, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant with eight counts of sexual exploitation of a child and three counts of receipt of child pornography.

Trenton Powell, age 43, from Pocatello, sexually abused the first victim for six years while living in Pocatello. Powell photographed the abuse with his iPhone. Years after the abuse ended, another of Powell’s victim repor... More...    $0 (05-03-2023 - ID)

Moscow, Idaho criminal law lawyer will be representing Defendant charged with burglary and four counts in first-degree murder.

Bryan Christopher Kohberger, age 28, is accused of killing Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, who were stabbed to death at a rental home near campus in Moscow, Idaho, sometime in the early morning hours of Nov. 13.

Kohberger,... More...    $0 (12-30-2022 - ID)

Pocatello, Idaho civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983.

Christopher Conley Tapp claimed that he was coerced into confessing to being involved in the rape and murder of Angie Doge, age 18, on June 13, 1996, and as a direct result he was wrongfully convicted and incarcerated from 1998 to 2019.

01/27/2... More...    $0 (07-18-2022 - ID)

In his second appeal in this post-conviction case, Christopher Conley Tapp challenges the district court's summary dismissal of his claim that his defense counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to present evidence of his diminished mental capacity in support of his trial motion to suppress his confession as involuntary. Tapp contends that because this Court, in his prior post-convictio... More...    $0 (11-21-2013 - ID)

Early in the morning of June 13, 1996, Angie Dodge was raped and stabbed to death in her apartment in Idaho Falls. On January 7, 1997, twenty-year-old Christopher Tapp voluntarily submitted to police questioning about this crime at the Law Enforcement Building (LEB) in Idaho Falls. Tapp again voluntarily went to the LEB for questioning on January 10. After this interview, Tapp's parents retained p... More...    $0 (03-31-2010 - ID)

Christopher C. Tapp appeals from his conviction for first degree murder and rape. Tapp argues that the district court erred by not suppressing the statements he made in a series of police interviews. In the alternative, he contends the sentences imposed are excessive.

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        Early in the mornin... More...    $0 (07-20-2001 - ID)

Idaho Falls, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder, rape, and use of a deadly weapon in the commission of a felony.

Christopher Tapp, age 20, was accused of raping and stabbing Angie Dodge, age 18, to death in her apartment on June 13, 1996. Her body was found when she failed to show up for work.

The city’s police department invest... More...    $0 (12-31-1998 - ID)

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with assault with a dangerous weapon.

After a two-and-a-half-day trial in June 2022, a federal jury found Qaya Mikel Gordon, age 20, of Lapwai, Idaho, guilty of two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon. According to trial testimony and court records, on November 1, 2021, Gordon went into a building where his mothe... More...    $0 (12-02-2022 - ID)

Boise, Idaho criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with attempted coercion and enticement of a minor.

Brett Michael Malone, age 30, of Adrain, Oregon, used Facebook to communicate with a 15-year-old girl in Idaho. During the communications, Malone sent the victim sexually explicit images and videos and enticed her to meet him for sexual contact. The victim’s mom located mess... More...    $0 (11-23-2022 - ID)

Boise, Idaho criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and falsification of records.

Nicholas Jones, age 36, from Boise, was a small business owner who applied for and received $753,600 in COVID-19 relief funds, primarily from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program. Despite certifying that the funds would only be ... More...    $194564 (10-19-2022 - ID)

Boise, Idaho criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with producing child pornography in violation of of 18 U.S.C. 2251, which provides:

(a) Any person who employs, uses, persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any minor to engage in, or who has a minor assist any other person to engage in, or who transports any minor in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, or in any Ter... More...    $0 (10-18-2022 - ID)

Boise, Idaho employment law lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued on a 42 U.S.C. 2000 job discrimination based on sex theory.

t shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer—
(1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, bec... More...    $0 (08-16-2022 - ID)

Pocatello, Idaho criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with felony use of a firearm in the commission of a robbery.

Jose Acosta, jr, age 41, entered a camping trailer and demanded money from a female occupant and discharged a firearm during a robbery that occurred on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation on June 23, 2021. The victim refused and fought with Acosta. During the strugg... More...    $0 (10-07-2022 - ID)

Coeur d'Alene criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with
wire fraud.

Trina Welch, age 49, of Osburn, Idaho, was employed by Kasco of Idaho, LLC as a bookkeeper from 2012 until 2019. Kasco is a construction and telecommunication company that does work in Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and Alaska. Beginning in at least 2013 and continuing until the day she was termina... More...    $0 (09-19-2022 - ID)

Boise, Idaho criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of child pornography.

Edward Vance, age 64, of Hagerman, who had a prior federal conviction for possession of child pornography. While Vance was on supervised release for that conviction, Vance’s probation officer located child pornography on his electronic devices. Vance’s probation officer referred the inve... More...    $0 (08-19-2022 - ID)

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.

Sean Robert Wathen, age 50, worked with Larry Junior Hillbroom and others to acquire and smuggle methamphetamine through international airports between North Idaho and the Pacific Islands of Guam and Palau. Wathen acquired pounds of methamphetamine for Hillbroom over several ... More...    $0 (08-11-2022 - ID)

Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with distribution of fentanyl.

Dakota James Hoffman, age 29, of Bellevue, distributed oxycodone pills to a man with the initials A.K. who overdosed on fentanyl on April 2, 2020. A review of A.K.’s digital communications revealed that Hoffman had distributed oxycodone pills to A.K. approximately two weeks prior to the ov... More...    $0 (07-05-2022 - ID)

Boise, Idaho civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendants on Civil Rights Act violation theories.


This case present questions of immense import to all Americans. It involves the clash of two groups' constitutional rights. The Freedom of Speech and the Freedom of Religion are enshrined in the Constitution. So too, is the right to Equal Protection and to be free fro... More...    $0 (06-30-2022 - ID)

Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with distribution of child pornography.

An investigation began after Yahoo reported that child pornography had been uploaded to two Yahoo accounts. The report was assigned to the Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children (“ICAC”) Task Force for investigation. ICAC determined that the accounts belonged to Judd Evans Ballar... More...    $0 (06-10-2022 - ID)

Sandpoint, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with lewd conduct.

Christopher John Lawson, age 53, was alleged to have assaulted a pre-teen in 2013.

The girl did not report the assault for a number of years.... More...    $0 (06-02-2022 - ID)

Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sexual assault and forcible penetration.

Former state Representative Aaron von Ehlinger, age 39, was charged with a legislative intern, age 19, in his apartment after they had dinner.

Ada County Deputy Prosecutor Katelyn Margueritte Farley prosecuted the case.... More...    $0 (04-29-2022 - ID)

Pocatello, Idaho civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on Job Discrimination (Age) theory.... More...    $0 (10-26-2021 - ID)

Boise, Idaho civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a wrongful job discrimination theory.

The claims made and defenses asserted by the parties are not available. ... More...    $0 (12-06-2021 - ID)

Hailey, ID: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with rape.

Edward Williams, age 46, was charged with raping a 12-year-old girl on December 16, 2020 and on other occasions.

Williams testified on his own behalf. ... More...    $0 (09-24-2021 - ID)