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United States of America v. Quillan Inman
Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possessing a Firearm as a Felon . Lumberton Gang Member Sentenced to Eight Years in Federal Prison After Conviction for Possessing a Firearm as a Felon A Robeson County man was sente...
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( 04-18-2024 - NC)

United States of America v. Raquel Braswell
Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Buying Dozens of Guns for Felons. Halifax Straw Purchaser Who Bought Dozens of Guns for Felons Sentenced to Five Years in Federal Prison A Roanoke Rapids man...
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( 03-25-2024 - NC)

United States of America v.RICHARD WILSON ADKINS, JR.
Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Trafficking Pounds of Methamphetamine and Cocaine. Downtown Benson Business Owner Who Trafficked Pounds of Methamphetamine and Cocaine Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison ...
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( 03-25-2024 - NC)

State of North Carolina v. Erick Hendandez-Mendez
Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder. The State of North Carolina charged Erick Hernandez-Mendez with murder in the 2021 stabbing of his wife, Christina Matos. Ms. Matos was 20 and was attending NC State University at the time of her death. ...
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( 03-15-2024 - NC)

Wayne Wimberley v. United States of America
Raleigh, North Carolina personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022 theory. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune is the site of one of the worst water contamination cases in US history. The base was a frequent pollution spot where oil, industrial wastewater, and toxic chemicals used as degreasers and solvents were all knowingly d...
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( 02-29-2024 - NC)

United States of America v. Isaiah Emmanuelle Gibbs
Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged Following Threats of Violence. Isaiah Emmanuelle Gibbs, 25, of New Bern was sentenced to 204 months in prison for illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition. Gibbs was arrested after threatening to retaliate for the sh...
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( 02-29-2024 - NC)

John L. Galbreath v. Shawn P. Samsel, Roberts Trucking Company, LLC, and Wavepoint Trucking Company, LLC
Raleigh, North Carolina personal injury truck wreck lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a auto negligence theories. This case was filed in the Robeson County Superior Court, 23-CVS-286, and was removed to federal court by the Defendant. North Carolina's strict rules on determining fault in car accidents are known as “pure contributory negligence” laws. ...
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( 02-21-2024 - NC)

United States of America v. Aaron Albert Goode
Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented charged with Fentanyl Distribution On December 22, 2022, Aaron Albert Goode pled guilty to conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine and fentanyl, possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute, and possession of firearms by a convicted felon. “Kilogram-level drug dealers often receive dan...
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( 01-03-2024 - NC)

United States of America v. Timothy Leak
Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented charged with assaulting officer On May 15, 2022, the inmate, Timothy Leak, 47, refused the officer’s orders to wear his mask and return to his cell. Instead, he became aggressive, and ran to a nearby room on the housing unit. As the officer approached Leak from the room, he rushed toward her and sl...
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( 01-03-2024 - NC)

United States of America v. Lawrence Levon Jones
Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant Indicted on Cross-Country Drug Conspiracy A federal jury convicted a Raleigh man on charges of drug trafficking, conspiracy, and illegal firearm possession for his role as a leader of a Raleigh-based drug organization that sourced drugs from Los Angeles, California and Newark, New Jersey. ...
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( 01-02-2024 - NC)

United States of America v. Bruce Carroll Callahan, Jr., aka “Hoss”
Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant Indicted on Drug Charges Bruce Carroll Callahan, Jr., aka “Hoss,” age 45,an armed Robeson County drug trafficker and prior federal felon who bragged to investigators about being the “biggest” drug dealer in Robeson County, was sentenced today to 300 months in prison for his role in...
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( 01-02-2024 - NC)

United States of America v. Billy Joe Goines, d/b/a Goines Towing & Recovery
Raleigh, North Carolina civil litigation lawyers represented the Defendant accused of violating the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) by towing and then selling vehicles without disclosing to the court that they were owned by service members. The SCRA provides a wide variety of financial and housing protections to members of the military. It requires a towing company to file an acc...
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( 12-27-2023 - NC)

United States of America v. Bruce Carroll Callahan, Jr., a/k/a "Hoss"
Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, cocaine and crack sourced from Honduras and Mexico in Eastern North Carolina. Callahan claimed to have access to over twenty kilograms of narcotics at any time. While awaiting trial and prior to his September 26, 2023, guilty plea, Bruce Carroll Callahan, Jr., a/k/a "...
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( 12-22-2023 - NC)

Emily Bartell v. Grifols Shared Services NA, Inc.
Raleigh, North Carolina civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on Americans with Disabilities Act violation theories. Grifols is a leading global healthcare company that develops plasma-derived medicines and other innovative biopharmaceutical solutions that enable millions ... "Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimi...
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( 11-22-2023 - NC)

Charles O'Brien Teague v. Marshall Pike, et al.
Raleigh, North Carolina pro se Plaintiff sued the Defendants on a prisoner civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983. Most prisoner civil rights cases are generally predicated on violation of the 8th Amendment. They are very fact driven and are very hard to win. ...
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( 11-06-2023 - NC)

Shirbartis Alston v. OM of Raleigh, Inc.
Raleigh, North Carolina employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a Fair Labor Standards Act violation. "The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is a federal law that sets minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor standards for full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in federal, state, and local governments. Key Provi...
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( 11-03-2023 - NC)

United States of America v. Amos Clayborne
Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing a firearm while being a convicted felon after he fired into a crowd of people at the Wake Inn in 2021, striking three individuals and paralyzing one. Amos Clayborne, age 36, of Lexington, and his girlfriend visited the Wake Inn on New Bern Avenue in Raleigh on March 27, 2021. Surveillance fo...
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( 11-01-2023 - NC)

United States of America v. Ivan Leonardo Medina-Beltran
Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with moving kilogram quantities of methamphetamine and fentanyl in and around the Craven County. Ivan Leonardo Medina-Beltran, age 45, pled guilty to the charges. Medina-Beltran is an undocumented noncitizen from Sonora, Mexico. “Medina-Beltran supplied kilogram quantities of fentanyl and metham...
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( 10-11-2023 - NC)

United States of America v. Isaac Lamont Dawson
Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraudulently obtaining Paycheck Protection Act (“PPP”) COVID-19 loans on behalf of two separate businesses he owned. “Stealing taxpayer money intended to help struggling businesses during a pandemic is shameless,” said U.S. Attorney Michael Easley. “We will continue to hold accountable those ...
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( 09-21-2023 - NC)

Jerry Dean Simmons v. William Carey Cooper
Raleigh, North Carolina civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983....
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( 09-15-2023 - NC)

Jameelah Hayes v. American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials
Raleigh, North Carolina civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a job discrimination race theory. "Job discrimination based on race is illegal in the United States. It is a form of employment discrimination that occurs when an employer treats an applicant or employee differently because of their race. This can include discrimination in hiring, promotion, p...
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( 09-13-2023 - NC)

Alton Skipper v. United Property & Casualty Insurance Company
Raleigh, North Carolina insurance law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a bad faith breach of insurance contract theory. "North Carolina law recognizes both statutory and common law bad faith breach of insurance contract claims. Statutory bad faith claims are brought under the North Carolina Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act (UDTPA). The UDTPA pro...
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( 09-13-2023 - NC)

Kimberly M. Carlile v. Abram Wiebe and Miner Excavating and Trucking, Ltd.
Raleigh, North Carolina personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on auto negligence and insurance law theories. "North Carolina auto negligence law is based on the principle that drivers owe a duty of care to other drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists. This duty of care requires drivers to act reasonably and prudently under the circumstances. If a driver b...
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( 09-11-2023 - NC)

Brant Varney v. Sizemore, Inc.
Raleigh, North Carolina civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a employment discrimination theory. "Employment discrimination law is a body of law that prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of certain protected characteristics, such as race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), national o...
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( 09-01-2023 - NC)

United States of America v. Sean Tracy Dillard
Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with theft of governmental funds. Sean Tracy Dillard, 55, pled guilty pursuant to a criminal information to theft of government funds for fraudulently submitting North Carolina Housing Opportunities and Prevention of Evictions (NC HOPE) loan applications for emergency rental assistance. As part of his fraud sch...
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( 08-15-2023 - NC)

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