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United States of America v. Christopher Randell
Jackson, Mississippi criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with False Tax Return Conspiracy.Filed Thousands of False Client Returns Causing More than $3.5 Million in Loss A Mississippi man was sentenced to 70 months in prison for conspiring to pre...
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( 03-15-2024 - MS)

United States of America v. Andrew Gilbert Landry
Jackson, Mississippi criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Receipt of Child Pornography. Biloxi Man Sentenced to over 11 Years in Prison for Receipt of Child Pornography A Biloxi man was sentenced to 136 months in prison, followed by a ...
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( 03-06-2024 - MS)

United States of America v. Jacquis LaShawn Houston
Jackson, Mississippi criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Meridian Man Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison for Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon A Meridian man was sentenced to 84 months in ...
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( 02-28-2024 - MS)

United States of America v. Michael Deon Fulcher
Jackson, Mississippi Criminal Defense Lawyer represented the Defendant charged with with sex trafficking, conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and interstate transportation for purposes of prostitution A federal jury in the Southern District of Mississippi convicted Michael Deon Fulcher, 54, with sex traff...
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( 01-22-2024 - MS)

Christopher Hill v. State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company
Jackson, Mississippi insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a bad faith breach of insurance contract theory. Key elements of a bad faith claim in Mississippi: Lack of arguable or legitimate basis for denial or delay: The insurance company must have denied or delayed your claim without a valid reason. Willful or malicious wrong, or act...
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( 01-10-2024 - MS)

United States of America v. Jeremy Lovell
Jackson, Mississippi criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant a Simon City Royals Gang Member for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. ...
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( 01-06-2024 - MS)

United States of America v. Barry Martin, Fiesta Kagler and Ella Martin
Jackson, Mississippi criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendantssfor Conspiring to Steal USDA-Mortgaged Houses. Three individuals were sentenced for their respective roles in a scheme to steal houses from the United States Department of Agriculture. According to court documents, the defendants conspired to identify and steal USDA-mo...
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( 01-06-2024 - MS)

Lenda Burns, as legal guardian of K.B. v. Officer Rakasha Adams, et al.
Jackson, Mississippi personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiffs who sued the Defendants on civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983 claiming $9.99 million in damages. In the early daylight hours of January 27, 2018, Crystalline Barnes was driving her red Pontiac in Jackson, Mississippi. City of Jackson Police Officer Rakasha Adams says she observed Ms. Barnes run a...
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( 10-25-2023 - MS)

United States of America v. Jessica Hill, LaToya Richardson, and Nicole Moore
Jackson, Mississippi criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with depriving a prison inmate of her civil rights under color of law. On July 11, 2019, at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, Corrections Officer (CO) Jessica Hill, CO LaToya Richardson and Case Manager Nicole Moore assaulted a defenseless inmate, L.C., while L.C. was in the fetal position and not...
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( 10-25-2023 - MS)

United States of America v. Brian Jenkins
Jackson, Mississippi criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bribery. From August 2017 to June 2018, Brian Jenkins, 39, accepted payment in exchange for smuggling contraband into the Federal Prison in Yazoo County, Mississippi, where he was employed as a corrections officer. Jenkins admitted receiving payments of just over four thousand dollars from inmates and oth...
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( 10-25-2023 - MS)

United States of America v. Wesley Murray, Sr.
Jackson, Mississippi criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud in connection with his submission of a false COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) application. Wesley Murray, Sr., 54, submitted to the United States Small Business Association (“SBA”) a false EIDL application containing material misrepresentations. In reliance on his certificati...
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( 10-16-2023 - MS)

United States of America v. Dayleon Phillips
Jackson, Mississippi criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with engaging in sexual contact with a minor under the age of twelve. Dayleon Phillips, Sr., age 35, of Conehatta County of the Choctaw Indian Reservation engaged in sexual contact with a minor under age 12. U.S. Attorney Todd W. Gee of the Southern District of Mississippi and Special Agent in Ch...
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( 10-16-2023 - MS)

United States of America v. Terll Shell, a/k/a "Toad"
Jackson, Mississippi criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine on the Choctaw Indian Reservation. Terll Shell 42, of Philadelphia, distributed methamphetamine on the Choctaw Indian Reservation from May 2019 to April of 2020. A federal grand jury indicted Shell in August 2020. On December 11, 202...
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( 09-15-2023 - MS)

Katina Thomas v. Wal-Mart Stores East, L.L.P.
Jackson, Mississippi personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a premises liability negligence theory. This case was filed in the Newton County Circuit Court, 22-cv-082-NWCM and was removed to federal court by the Defendant. "Premises liability law in Mississippi is based on the concept of duty of care. This means that property owners have a duty to kee...
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( 08-03-2023 - MS)

United States of America v. Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton, Daniel Opdyke and Joshua Hartfield
Jackson, Mississippi criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with conspiring depriving people of their rights under color of law, conspiracy to obstruct justice. Five former Rankin County Sheriff’s Department employees, including Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton, Daniel Opdyke and Joshua Hartfield, a former Richland police officer, who ca...
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( 08-03-2023 - MS)

United States of America v. Emilio Bellizzia, a/k/a Juan Emilio Bellizzia
Jackson, Mississippi criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with production of child pornography and possession of child pornography. Beginning in April 2021, and continuing through June 2021, FBI agents from Milwaukee and Jackson, along with the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office, investigated groups of individuals who were engaged in the receipt, possession, distribu...
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( 04-05-2023 - MS)

United States of America v. William Glenn Chunn, a/k/a Big Head and Aaron Matthew Rentfrow, a/k/a Mongo
Jackson, Mississippi criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with attempted murder of a prison inmate. MoreLaw Legal News For Jackson On Oct. 3, 2022, William Glenn Chunn, aka Big Head, 40, of...
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( 01-25-2023 - MS)

DeMarkus Bradley v. Viking Insurance Company of Wisconsin
Jackson, Mississippi insurance law lawyer represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendant on beach of contract theories. MoreLaw Legal News For Jackson Two significant questions of Mississippi insurance law are ...
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( 01-06-2023 - MS)

United States of America v. Sherice E. Davis
Jackson, Mississippi criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with embezzling mail. Sherice Davis, age 34, was a Rural Carrier Associate and delivered mail along a rural route in Hinds County. After receiving complaints of mail theft along Davis’ route, agents with the Postal Service Office of Inspector General investigated. On March 9, 2022, agents found Davis in possession of...
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( 10-25-2022 - MS)

United States of America v. Richard Butler
Jackson, Mississippi criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine in violation of 21 U.S.C. 841, which provides: [I]t shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally— (1) to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, a controlled substance; or ...
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( 10-12-2022 - MS)

Paul and Sylvaia Minor v. USAA
Jackson, Mississippi insurance law lawyers represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendant on bad faith breach of contract theories. ¶ 1. Paul and Sylvia Minor's home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005. The Minors had a homeowner's insurance policy with United Services Automobile Association (USAA). The policy provided coverage limits for: house–$1,028,000, boathouse ...
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( 10-06-2022 - MS)

Estate of Sylvia Minor v. United States Automobile Association (USAA)
Jackson, MS: The Estate of Sylvia Minor sued United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on a bad faith breach of insurance contract theory. Plaintiff claimed that USAA acted in bad faith when it took more than 7 years to pay insured claims caused by Hurricane Katrina, which roared ashore in South Mississippi 17 years ago. ...
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( 09-23-2022 - MS)

United States of America v. Manpreet Kamboj and Gurdev Kamboj, a/k/a Divid Singh
Jackson, Mississippi criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with knowingly falsified income to unlawfully create eligibility for Mississippi Medicaid health care benefits for their dependents. The Medicaid Program is a state and federally funded health benefit program intended to assist low-income individuals and families. The Mississippi Division of Medicaid (MDOM) is the single ...
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( 09-01-2022 - MS)

Deryl Baker v. Jaimie Wabel, et al.
Jackson, Mississippi civil rights lawyers represented plaintiffs whose rights have been violated. his matter arises out of two traffic stops of Plaintiff Deryl Baker (“Plaintiff” or “Baker”) by officers of the Stone County, Mississippi, Sheriff's Department. See 2d Am. Compl. [52] at 1-2, 4-5. Plaintiff, who is proceeding pro se, alleges that he was illegally stopped on two o...
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( 08-12-2022 - MS)

United States of America v. Billy Ray Craven
Jackson, Mississippi criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Billy Ray Craven, 54, from Meridian, was found in possession of a firearm in his vehicle by officers of the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office on August 6, 2019, during a traffic stop. Craven plead guilty to a violation of Title 18, United States Code, S...
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( 08-11-2022 - MS)

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