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United States of America v. Victor Torres

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of production of child pornography. In 2023, Victor Torres paid two different 13-to-14-year-old children to produce sexually explicit material to send to him online. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) discovered Torres’s criminal activity when they received a CyberTip from an online money exchange pl... More...

(12-15-2025 - TX)
United States of America v. Damon Tonyado Johnson

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank robbery. Damon Johnson, 51, was indicted in December 2024 for robbing the PNC Bank on North Glenbrook Drive in Garland, Texas on November 14, 2024. He pled guilty in May 2025 to bank robbery. Today, U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle sentenced Johnson to 200 months in federal prison. According to court documents,... More...

(12-15-2025 - TX)
United States of America v. Skyler Shoemaker

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography. Skyler Shoemaker, age 34, of Colorado City, Texas, used Facebook Messenger to send a sexually explicit video of a four- to six-year-old child to his girlfriend, Angel Bradford. Additionally, information presented at the sentencing hearing indicated that Shoemaker used various platfo... More...

(12-15-2025 - TX)
State of Texas v. Alexandria Hubbard

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represents the defendant charged with murder. Alexandria Hubbard, 32, was accused of fatally stabbing Jerrian Jones, 32.... More...

(12-05-2025 - TX)
Marcus L. Willis v. Diaz De Leon, Jeff Williams, Chief, City of Bedford

Dallas, Texas personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on civil rights violations under 42 U.S.C. 1983. Plaintiff Marcus L. Willis was driving in Bedford, Texas when Defendant Officer Diaz De Leon pulled him over. De Leon informed Willis that he stopped him for driving without valid insurance.1 De Leon then stated he smelled marijuana and proceeded to search Willis�... More...

(11-24-2025 - TX)
Tariq Farooq v. Nucor Business Technology, Inc. and Capgemini America, Inc.

Dallas, Texas, pro se Plaintiff attempted to represent himself without a lawyer on an employment discrimination case. Farooq’s complaint, which he initially filed in state court and was removed to federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 1441(a) and 28 U.S.C. § 1331, raised claims for hostile work environment, ethnicity discrimination, religious discrimination, retaliation, and wrongf... More...

(11-24-2025 - TX)
United States of America v. Lemarcus Houston

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine.... More...

(11-24-2025 - TX)
United States of America v. Jarious Dwayne Fletcher

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with firearm possession by a prohibited person. Jarious Dwayne Fletcher pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). On appeal, he argues that § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional under New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022). ... More...

(11-21-2025 - TX)
Computer Sciences Corporation v. Tata Consultancy Services Limited, et al.

Dallas, Texas commercial litigation lawyers represented the parties in a misappropriatio of trade secrets theory. Computer Sciences Corporation (“CSC”) sued Appellant Tata Consultancy Services Limited (“TCS”) for trade secret misappropriation under the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, Pub. L. No. 114-153, § 2(a), 130 Stat. 376, 376–80 (codified at 18 U... More...

(11-21-2025 - TX)
Myisha Niter, et al. v. Marian Brown, et al.

Dallas, Texas personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a deliberate indifference civil rights violation theory. Christopher Darnell Williams died by suicide while detained in Dallas County Jail. His family sued the Texas Department of Public Safety, (“TDPS”), Dallas County, Sheriff Marian Brown, and unknown jail employees. Plaintiff-Appellants brought clai... More...

(11-14-2025 - TX)
State of Texas v. Deyonte Rice

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer will represent the Defendant charged with capital murder. Deyonte Rice, age 19, is accused for fatally shooting Brandon Fuller age 19 in south Dallas. ... More...

(11-13-2025 - TX)
State of Texas v. Yordanis Cobos-Martinez

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder. Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, 37, is accused of slicing his manager's head off in front of his family and kicking it "like a soccer ball." Chandra Nagamallaiah, a manager of a Downtown Suites motel in Dallas, was killed at the motel. ... More...

(11-04-2025 - TX)
State of Texas v. Brian Pineda Ayala and Caceres Leiva

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyers representing the Defendants charged capital murder. n Tuesday, Brian Pineda Ayala, 23, and Jimy Caceres Leiva, 28, were taken into custody in Houston by the Texas Department of Public Safety. ... More...

(11-04-2025 - TX)
United States of America v. Daniel Carlos-Ramos

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegally reentering the United States after deportation. Violation of f 8 U.S.C. § 1326 carries a maximum sentence of two years of imprisonment and one year of supervised release. ... More...

(11-03-2025 - TX)
State of Texas v. Keona Hampton

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. Keona Hampton, age 22, was accused shooting and killing Cecilia Simpson, age 41, who was shot in the parking lot of a P... More...

(10-10-2025 - TX)
State of Texas v. Stephen Puzio

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree aggravated assault by a public servant. Stephen Puzio, age 35, a Dallas County juvenile detention officer, allegedly attacked a 15-year-old in custody. The victim suffered facial fractures as a result of the assault and battery.... More...

(10-10-2025 - TX)
State of Texas v. Roy Mendoza

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted murder. Roy Mendoza, age 18, shot Mia Velasquez, age 17, multiple times in a restaurant in Downtown Dallas. ... More...

(10-10-2025 - TX)
State of Texas v. Yordanis Cobos-Martinez

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with capital murder. Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, age 37, was accused for killing and decapitating Chandra Nagamallaiah, age 50. ... More...

(10-03-2025 - TX)
United States of America v. Jack Edward Ball

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of stolen United States mail.... More...

(10-03-2025 - TX)
United States of America v. Sean Shaughnessy

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two drug-conspiracy counts, one distribution count, and one possession of child pornography count, all arising from his use of online dark web marketplaces to traffic narcotics,... More...

(10-02-2025 - TX)
Mesquite Asset Recovery Group, LLC, et al. v. City of Mesquite, Texas

Dallas, Texas, civil litigation lawyers represented the parties in breach of contract theory. In 2008, Appellants purchased from the City approximately 60.31 acres of land in Mesquite, Texas (the Property), the majority of which sits on a federally designated flood zone. Appellants also applied for and received from the City a variance waiving their obligation to obtain a Cond... More...

(09-24-2025 - TX)
United States of America v. Taurick Demond Walker

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank robbery in violation of 18 USC § 2113(a).... More...

(09-15-2025 - TX)
United States of America v. Kevin Centeno

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspirayc to distribute with inent to distribute drugs. ... More...

(08-29-2025 - TX)
United States of America v. Brodrick Eugene Davis

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a destructive device.... More...

(08-14-2025 - TX)
United States of America v. Damien Antione Jones

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a) and using and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). Jones and his codefendants robbed pawn shops and auto parts stores in the Dallas, Texas area. Jones brought handguns and semiautomatic rifles to these ro... More...

(08-04-2025 - TX)