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)

Idaho, Falls criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant who was charged with first-degree murder and justice went to hell.

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 ... More...    $0 (12-31-1997 - ID)

Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraudulently obtaining and misusing a $338,958 Paycheck Protection Program loan that the Small Business Administration (SBA) guaranteed under the Coronavirus Relief Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.

Khadijah X. Chapman, 59, of Atlanta, worked with co-conspirators to falsify financial information and submit... More...    $0 (11-16-2023 - ID)

Donald Paradis v. A.J. Arave, Warden, Idaho State Penitentiray, et al.

Donald Paradis, a state prisoner, appeals from the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

Paradis seeks review of his conviction on the following grounds:

One. The evidence was insufficient to demonstrate that Kimberly Palmer was killed in the state of Idaho.

Two. The state failed to preserve exculpatory evidence.
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Boise, Idaho criminal appellate death penalty defense lawyers represented the Plaintiff seeking a writ of habeas corpurs stay of execution.... More...    $0 (06-09-1986 - ID)

Pocatello, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of fentanyl.

"The distribution of fentanyl is a serious crime in the United States. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. It is often mixed with other drugs, such as heroin or cocaine, without the user's knowledge. This can lead to accidental overdoses a... More...    $0 (10-17-2023 - ID)

Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with civil rights violations involving the sexual abuse of women and exchanging favorable police treatment for sexual acts.

According to court documents, Ryan A. Bendawald, 41, of Franklin, Tennessee, allegedly abused his position as a law enforcement officer by sexually victimizing women in Idaho. From at least 2017... More...    $0 (10-17-2023 - 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 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)

Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with multiple counts of conspiracy murder and grand theft in connection with the deaths of Vallow Daybell’s two children: Joshua “JJ� Vallow and Tylee Ryan. Both are also charged in connection with the death of Chad Daybell’s previous wife, Tammy Daybell.

The motivation for all the deaths, according to the State, ... More...    $0 (04-10-2023 - 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)

This Court summarized the facts of this case in State v. Tapp, 136 Idaho 354, 33 P.3d 828 (Ct. App. 2001) as follows:

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 (LE... More...    $0 (08-22-2014 - 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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        FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

        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)

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 personal injury wrongful death lawyer represented Plaintiff's who sued Defendants on negligence theories claiming more than $75,000 in damages and/or injures as a direct result of the death of Colby James Bray, deceased.


Colby James Bray was a resident at the Juvenile Corrections Center-St. Anthony, a facility owned and operated by the IDJC in Fremont County, Idaho. On t... More...    $0 (10-04-2022 - ID)

Boise, Idaho civil litigation lawyer sued Defendants on a real property law theory.

This matter has a long and convoluted backstory spanning multiple cases and appeals. The principal actors in this saga are Ford Elsaesser, the personal representative of the Estate of Victoria H. Smith (the "Personal Representative"),[1] and Vernon K. Smith ("Vernon"), a son of Victoria and the attorney fo... More...    $0 (07-08-2022 - 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)

Idaho Falls, Idaho criminal defense lawyers represented Defendant charged with rape and first-degree murder.


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 F... More...    $0 (05-31-1998 - ID)

Coeru D'Alene, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant chargd with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.

Sean Robert Wathen 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 m... More...    $0 (05-18-2022 - ID)

Idaho Falls, Idaho first-degree murder charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Brian Leigh Dripps, Sr., age 55, who was charged with killing and raping an 18-year-old woman in 1996, a crime for which another man was wrongfully convicted and incarcerated for 20 years.

The mother of Angie Dodge sought to have investigators take another look at the evidence, including DNA, evid... More...    $0 (06-09-2021 - ID)

Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering.

Douglas Wold, 48, of Meridian, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, one count of mail fraud, and one count of money laundering based on schemes to defraud his employer, Fry Foods, Inc., during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael ... More...    $0 (05-19-2021 - ID)

Pocatello, Idaho criminal defense bankruptcy fraud charge lawyer represented Andrew Welch, 46, of Idaho Falls, was concealment of assets in bankruptcy.

According to court records, Welch, a former pharmacist in Ketchum, Idaho, filed a voluntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition on April 3, 2014, after the Idaho State Board of Pharmacy revoked his pharmacist license. In the bankruptcy petition... More...    $0 (01-09-2021 - ID)

Pocatello, Idaho criminal defense bankruptcy fraud lawyer

Andrew Welch, 46, of Idaho Falls, was charged with concealment of assets in bankruptcy.

According to court records, Welch, a former pharmacist in Ketchum, Idaho, filed a voluntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition on April 3, 2014, after the Idaho State Board of Pharmacy revoked his pharmacist license. In the bankruptcy petiti... More...    $0 (12-28-2020 - ID)

Missoula, MT - Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Concealing Assets During His Bankruptcy

Randall Alan Franz, a 59-year-old resident of Sandpoint, Idaho, was sentenced on Thursday to 8 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $205,084.79 in restitution after pleading guilty to concealing assets in bankruptcy. Chief U.S. District Judge Dana Christ... More...    $0 (08-20-2018 - ID)

Smalley was employed at an assisted living facility and worked alone as the overnight caregiver. The victim, F.B., was a 102-year-old patient at the facility who had arthritis, wore
hearing aids, and spoke with a low voice. Her hands were deformed from the arthritis, she could only eat with a large-handled spoon, and she had difficulty swallowing. F.B. could not walk, sit up, stand, dress ... More...    $0 (05-13-2018 - ID)

Investigative journalism has long been a fixture in the American press, particularly with regard to food safety.1 In the early 1900s, Upton Sinclair highlighted conditions in the meat-packing industry in The Jungle, a novel based on his time working incognito in a packing plant.2 This case also originates in the agricultural sector�a secretly-filmed expos� of the operation of an Idaho dairy fa... More...    $0 (01-09-2018 - ID)

In December 2012, Tollman pled guilty to the felony crime of driving under the influence. In March 2013, the district court sentenced Tollman to a unified term of ten years, with two and a half years fixed followed by seven and a half years indeterminate. The judgment required that Tollman’s driver’s license be absolutely suspended for five years beginning on the date of Tollman’s release from cus... More...    $0 (11-26-2017 - ID)

Boise, ID - Emmett Woman Pleads Guilty to Theft of Government Money

Wendy Ann Payne, 51, of Emmett, Idaho pleaded guilty on May 23, 2017, to theft of government money.

According to the plea agreement, Payne’s grandmother was the spouse of a deceased veteran and received monthly benefits from the Veterans Affairs Dependency and Indemnity Compensation program, paid to eligible surv... More...    $0 (05-25-2017 - ID)

COEUR D'ALENE, ID - Utah Couple Sentenced for Bank Fraud and Bankruptcy Fraud

Cortney S. Valentine, 40, and Nicolette P. Valentine, 37, husband and wife, both of Liberty, Utah, were sentenced Tuesday for bank fraud, false declaration under penalty of perjury and concealment of assets in connection with a bankruptcy case, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Senior U.S. Distric... More...    $0 (03-02-2017 - ID)

COEUR D’ALENE, ID - Utah Man Pleads Guilty to Bank Fraud and Bankruptcy Fraud

Cortney S. Valentine, 39, of Liberty, Utah, pleaded guilty to bank fraud and false declaration under penalty of perjury and concealment of assets in connection with a bankruptcy case.

According to the plea agreement, Valentine defrauded U.S. Bank when he made material false statements which were relied ... More...    $0 (11-02-2016 - ID)