Kansas City, Missouri criminal defense lawyers represented the defendants charged with illegal firearms trafficking and straw purchases of firearms as a result of the investigation into the mass shooting at Union Station during the celebration of the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory on Feb. 14, 2024.

“These cases underscore the importance of enforcing federal firearms laws,â€� said... More...    $0 (03-15-2024 - IA)

Des Moines, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with forty-nine fraud- and tax-related charges.

For several years, Thein Maung, age 47, and Phyo Mi, age 21, of Ottumwa, Iowan ran a fraudulent tax-preparation business out of their family’s Ottumwa home. In exchange for a cash fee, Maung and Mi would prepare and file their customers’ tax returns. Maung and ... More...    $0 (10-02-2023 - IA)

Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with possessing a firearm as an Armed Career Criminal.

On July 20, 2020, Minneapolis Police officers pulled over a GMC Envoy with Romelle Darryl Smith, 33, riding in it. Believing Smith was a suspect in a shooting investigation, officers ordered him out of the car. Smith told the officers he was carrying a Ruger LCP hand... More...    $0 (08-25-2022 - IA)

Cedar Rapids, Iowa criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with unlawful transport of firearms.

Douglas Hurt, age 42, of Anamosa, Iowa, was found guilty of possessing two firearms and ammunition after having been convicted of one felony and three misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence. The evidence at trial showed that, in June 2020, in the cabin where he lived, Hurt possessed a C... More...    $0 (08-16-2022 - IA)

Des Moines, IA: Assault and battery with dangerous weapon charge and attempted murder criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Michael McKinney, age 26, who fired a handgun at a carful of Black girls who were arguing with pro-Trump agitators near the Iowa Capitol Building in December of 2020.

McKinney was heavily armed and wearing body armor.... More...    $0 (06-19-2021 - IA)

Cedar Rapids, IA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with felony firearm possession.

Mar’yo Doyuan Lindsey, a/k/a Maryo Doyuan Lindsey, age 24, from Waterloo, Iowa, was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

In a plea agreement, Lindsey admitted that the Iowa State patrol found him in a car on July 3, 2020, in possession of a large capacity m... More...    $0 (03-19-2021 - IA)

Davenport, IA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with bank rubbery.

John A. Jarvey sentenced Aquinas Lenell Jackson, Sr., age 60, of Coralville, was charged with Bank Robbery.

On March 4, 2020, Aquinas Lenell Jackson, Sr., entered the US Bank, located on 10th Avenue in Coralville, and, through threats and intimidation, took $4,300 from a bank teller. The bank... More...    $0 (03-26-2021 - IA)

Davenport, IA - The United States of America charged Zacharia Allen Clark with felony possession of guns and ammunition.

Zacharia Allen Clark, age 30, of Davenport, was sentenced to more than 16 years in prison (200 months) after pleading guilty to being a Felon in Possession of Ammunition. Clark was ordered to serve a five-year term of supervised release to follow his release from priso... More...    $0 (02-28-2020 - IA)

The district court convicted Saivon McGruder of robbery in the first degree
and theft in the first and third degrees. The district court sentenced McGruder to
concurrent terms of incarceration for each offense. McGruder challenges these
convictions on appeal, contending the district court erred in denying his motion for
substitute counsel and his convictions must be vacated a... More...    $0 (09-15-2018 - IA)

The jury was instructed the State would have to prove several elements of
first-degree robbery, including: “The Defendant or the person(s) the Defendant
aided and abetted was armed with a dangerous weapon.” The jury also was
instructed the State would have to prove several elements of first-degree burglary,
including: “During the incident the Defendant or the person(s) he aide... More...    $0 (09-15-2018 - IA)

We previously stated the facts of this case on Maddox’s first appeal:
[Maddox], co-defendant Jeremy Gibler, and the victim were riding around together on December 17, 2009, after having spent time together drinking at the home of Gibler’s aunt and then going to the home of a person [Maddox] knew. [Maddox] was driving, Gibler was in the back seat, and the victim was in the passenger’s seat. ... More...    $0 (09-14-2018 - IA)

On the evening of Saturday, January 7, 2006, Holly Michael, Becky Sittig,
Ashleigh Attig, and Harper hung out at Michael’s house in Fort Dodge beginning
at around 7:00 or 8:00 p.m.2 From then until the early morning hours of January
8, the group drank alcohol, smoked marijuana, and consumed cocaine. The group
left the residence to go to a nearby bar at which they arrived arou... More...    $0 (09-14-2018 - IA)

Three men hatched a plan to rob a person who was seeking to buy marijuana from one of them. They enlisted the help of Albert Garcia because they knew Garcia had a gun. Garcia ended up shooting the would-be marijuana purchaser and his friend. Both died. The State charged Garcia with two counts of first-degree murder, in violation of Iowa Code sections 707.1 and 707.2 (2015), and two counts ... More...    $0 (09-03-2018 - IA)

Sometime after 9:00 p.m. on the evening of December 23, 2008, Harold and Frances Kavalier observed a light blue van engaging in odd behavior in a restaurant parking lot in Cedar Rapids. An African American male wearing a hooded sweatshirt with the “hood tied up way around [his] face” eventually emerged from the van, which contained at least two other occupants, and proceeded in the direction... More...    $0 (09-03-2018 - IA)