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State of Maryland v. Bryan Betancur
Rockville, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with assault and battery. Bryan Betancur, 28, of Silver Spring, Maryland, setting fire to a female passengers’ hair on Metro trains in the D.C. area. The Defendant was charged, convicted and pardoned for his participation in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Tammy Barcus
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. From 2016 through 2024, Tammy Barcus, age 57, of Berlin, Maryland, a former office manager and bookkeeper for an Ocean City-based home builder, embezzled approximately $1.79 million from her former employer. Barcus used her position of trust to embezzle funds from her employer by issuing more than 500 fraudulently authorized checks from the home builder’s business ba
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Clifton Mosley
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with witness-murder and marijuana trafficking. During trial, the Government presented evidence that Mosley was friends and drug-trafficking partners with Davon Carter and Matthew Hightower. Hightower had been indicted for healthcare fraud and extortion, due to information provided to the authorities by his co-worker Lisa Edmonds. Edmonds was to be a key witness in Hightower’s upcoming trial. The Governmen
View VerdictKilmar Ábrego García v. United States of America
Baltimore, Maryland, immigration law lawyers represented the Plaintiff seeking a declaratory judgment and injunction to prevent the government from deporting him. Kilmar Ábrego García was mistakenly deported to his home country last year. He sought a decision of the Federal District Court that the government had no viable plan for deporting him.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Mario Valencia-Birruetta
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute drugs. Mario Valencia-Birruetta, 35, of Corning, California, distributed large quantities of cocaine. As a result of their investigation, in July 2023, investigators learned Valencia-Birruetta was a member of this DTO, so law enforcement placed him on a flight watch list. On August 14, a commercial airline notified investigators that Valencia-Bi
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Lawrence Nathanial Harris
Greenbelt, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a machine gun and possession with intent to distribute drugs. Lawrence Nathanial Harris, 33, of Temple Hills Maryland, admitted that on November 16, 2022, while law enforcement executed a residential search warrant at his home, he threw a firearm and a bag of marijuana from his room. He possessed this firearm in furtherance of his drug-trafficking activities. During a search of Harris’s attic,
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Duane Watts
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer David Walsh -Little represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Beginning in May 2020, and continuing through at least May 2021, Duane Watts, 46, of Baltimore, Maryland, engaged in a conspiracy to defraud and obtain money through materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises in connection with the UI scheme. Watts also engaged in aggravated identity theft, obtaini
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Ashlee Nicole Scott
Salisbury, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with twenty-three counts stemming from her involvement in an August 2023 assault, robbery, and shooting in Salisbury, Maryland. . Whether the evidence was insufficient to support Ms. Scott’s convictions? II. Whether the instruction to the jury on accomplice liability was erroneous? IV. Whether the court violated Ms. Scott’s confrontation right by admitting evidence of a non-testifying co-defendant’s
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Daquwan Hicks
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a firearm with a nexus to a drug trafficking crime.
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Reginald Lincoln Leo, Jr.
Hagerstown, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with armed carjacking, two counts of first-degree assault, two counts of armed robbery, two counts of reckless endangerment, car theft, two counts of theft under $1,000, and use of a firearm in the commission of crime of violence.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. IAP Worldwide Services, Inc.
Baltimore, Maryland, commercial litigation lawyers represented the Defendant on a False Claims Act action. The U.S. alleged that on November 4, 2015, IAP undertook the performance of a contract awarded by the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River, Maryland (the Contract). The Contract, among other things, required IAP to maintain and support a certain military aircraft, which included the repair, replacement, and replenishment of items used in the repair and maintenance
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Denis C. Thomason
Hagerstown, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with violating a protective order. Legal issue What jurisdiction does a circuit court exercise when ruling on a motion to correct an illegal sentence after initially exercising appellate jurisdiction? APPELLATE PROCEDURE. JURISDICTION. The case addresses the jurisdiction of the circuit court when ruling on a motion to correct an illegal sentence, determining that such ruling was not made in the exercise of appe
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Kamel Hay
Greenbelt, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with involuntary manslaughter. On February 5, 2022, Kamel Hay, 26, of Houston, Texas, was driving his vehicle northbound on the BW Parkway at a high rate of speed as he wove through traffic. Eventually, Hay lost control of his car, striking two other vehicles, before his car left the roadway and struck a tree. His front-seat passenger (Victim 1. age 33), who was wearing a seatbelt, died after Hay’s car stuck th
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Vanessa Valdez
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with an unemployment insurance (UI) fraud scheme. Beginning in at least May 2020, and continuing through at least September 2021, Vanessa Valdez, 42, of Burtonsville, Maryland, and other co-conspirators, engaged in a conspiracy and scheme to defraud and obtain money by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representatio
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Christian Ramos
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder and related offenses. Christian Ramos, 28, of Aurora, shootings on I-83 in Baltimore County.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Thaddeus Lamont Wills
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with commercial armed robbery. After a nine-day trial, on October 25, 2024, a federal jury found Thaddeus Lamont Wills, 52, of Waldorf, Maryland, was found guilty of conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce by robbery, two counts of interference with interstate commerce by robbery, and two counts of carjacking. Additionally, the jury convicted Wills of three counts of using, carrying, and brandishing a fire
View VerdictUnited States of America v. OJ Rashad Green
Greenbelt, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of fentanyl in the Accokeek, Maryland area. <br> <br> District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced OJ Rashad Green, 36, aka “Ice,†of Accokeek, Maryland, to nine years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of fentanyl in the Accokeek, Maryland area. <br> <br> Kelly O. Hayes, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, announced the sentence wi
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Reginald Davis
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank theft.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jemel Maurice Lyles, aka Mauricio Lyles
Greenbelt, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with wire fraud.
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Christian Ramos
Baltimore, Maryand, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder and related offenses.<br> <br> Christian Ramos, 28, of Aurora, Illinois was charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder and related offenses. Ramos, who also faces a separate firearm charge in Cecil County.<br> <br> Shortly before midnight on June 18, 2025, troopers from the Maryland State Police Golden Ring Barrack responded to southbound I-83 near Sha
View VerdictCarolyn Hall v. Sheppard Pratt Health System, Inc.
Baltimore, Maryland, civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff title VII failure to accommodate theory.<br> <br> Under Title VII, an employer must provide for a religious accommodation unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the employer, a standard that the Supreme Court recently clarified in Groff v. DeJoy, 600 U.S. 447 (2023).<br> <br> In this case, Carolyn Hall was terminated from her employment at a hospital after she refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19 during the height
View VerdictUnited Stetes of American v. John Robert Bolton,II
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer is representing the Defendant eight counts of unlawful transmission of national defense information as well as 10 counts of unlawful retention of national defense information. <br> <br> 18:793(d) TRANSMISSION OF NATIONAL DEFENSE INFORMATION<br> (1-8) <br> 18:793(e) RETENTION OF NATIONAL DEFENSE INFORMATION<br> (9-18)<br> <br> Department of Justice Press Release:<br> <br> "A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging former National Sec
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Charles Anthony Boatwright
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder.<br> <br> <img width="300" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G21sbJMWMAAnAjK?format=jpg&name=small"><br> <br> Charles Anthony Boatwright, age 55, was accused of killing Randolph Smith, age 56. Smith was shot and killed on July 13, 2025 in the 3900 block of Frederick Avenue.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jean Brown
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking.<br> <br> From at least 2000 until 2010, Jean Brown ran a marijuana trafficking organization that transported large amounts of marijuana from Arizona and California to Maryland for distribution in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and Washington, D.C. Brown used tractor trailers and car carriers to transport the money to the West Coast and the marijuana back to the East Coast. Brown's shipmen
View VerdictState of Maryland v. William Cook, Jr.
Anapolis, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder.<br> <br> William Cook, Jr., age 68, was accused of killing Garnet Elizabeth Griffith, 1989.<br> <br> Griffith was found dead in her apartment from a gun shot wound.
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Kamryn Andrews, James Lawson, and Travis Lissau
Centreville, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with manslaughter, assault and reckless endangerment.<br> <br> Kamryn Andrews, 19, of Seaford, Delaware; James Lawson, 20, of Queenstown, Maryland; and Travis Lissau, 27, of Centreville, Maryland, were accused of shooting of a 19-year-old at a house party in Maryland.<br> <br>
View VerdictState of North Dakota v. Isiah Simms
Bismarck, North Dakota, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual assault of a child.<br> <br> Isiah Simms was accused of sexually assaulting child on the state Capitol grounds.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Daniel Michael Harris
Greenbelt, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with four armed robberies while using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. <br> <br> U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Daniel Michael Harris, Sr., 44, of Waldorf, Maryland, to 14 years in federal prison for committing four armed robberies while using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.<br> <br> Kelly O. Hayes
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Rashad Green aka “Iceâ€
Greenbelt, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of fentanyl.<br> <br> District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced OJ Rashad Green, 36, aka “Ice,†of Accokeek, Maryland, to nine years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of fentanyl in the Accokeek, Maryland area. <br> <br> Kelly O. Hayes, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, announced the sentence with Special Agent in Charge Chri
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Amir Barnes-Henderso
Baltimore, Maryalnd, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with First-Degree Murder and multiple related charges in connection with the fatal shooting of Gary Lee Matthews, age 34. Assistant State’s Attorney Elizabeth Stock prosecuted this case.<br> <br> On November 21, 2024, at approximately 5:22 p.m., a Northeast District Patrol Officer with the Baltimore Police responded to reports of a shooting at 4900 Block of Frankford Avenue. Upon arrival, officers found the v
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Kamal Khalid, Fnu Shahrukh
Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy and conspiracy and securities fraud and odometer rollback scheme. <br> <br> Chief Judge George L. Russell, III, sentenced Kamal Khalid, 44, of Pasadena, Maryland, to 36 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after he pled guilty to conspiracy and securities fraud stemming from his role in an odometer rollback scheme. Judge Russell previously sentenced Khalid’s
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Troy Spencer
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition by a prohibited person, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (Count 1), and possession of a firearm in a school zone, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(q) (Count 2). <br> <br>
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Christopher Lawrence Stouffer
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual abuse of a child and possession of child pornography.<br> <br> <br> Federal law aggressively criminalizes and punishes the sexual exploitation of children, primarily through laws found in Title 18 of the U.S. Code.<br> <br> The key statute is 18 U.S.C. § 2251, which broadly prohibits the use, enticement, or coercion of a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of creating and distri
View VerdictMichael Rentshler v. Atlantic General Hospital Corporation
Baltimore, Maryland personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiffs on a property damage theory.<br> <br> As a comprehensive healthcare services company, AGH collects, maintains, and<br> stores highly sensitive personal and medical information pertaining to its patients, including, but<br> not limited to: Social Security numbers, dates of birth, full names, addresses, telephone numbers,<br> driver’s license numbers, information regarding medical treatment, diagnosis, and prescriptions,
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Marlow Bates, a/k/a Low
Baltimore, Maryland, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances (drugs).
View VerdictKeeley Olson and Dustin Olson v. A.R.T. Institute of Washington, Inc., et al.
Greenbelt, Maryland, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiffs on medical malpractice claims.<br> <br> In Maryland, a medical malpractice claim requires demonstrating four elements:<br> a duty of care owed by the healthcare provider to the patient, a breach of that duty (deviation from the accepted standard of care), causation (the breach directly caused the injury), and damages (the patient suffered harm). The standard of care is what a reasonably competent provider would do in similar
View VerdictA.A. vMontgomery County Public Schools, et al.
Greenbelt, Maryland, civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Individuals With Disabilities Education Act theory. <br> <br> The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a federal law guaranteeing eligible children with disabilities a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) in the least restrictive environment, ensuring access to necessary special education services from birth through age 21. Key provisions include the creation of Individualized Education Program
View VerdictAshley Brooks v. Berman Management, LLC, et al.
Greenbelt, Maryland, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a Fair Labor Standards Act violation theory.<br> <br> The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes federal standards for minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor for most private and public employees. Key provisions require employers to pay a minimum hourly wage, at least one and a half times the regular rate for hours worked over 40 in a week (unless an exemption applies), and to maintain accurate reco
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Brandon Glen Jackson
Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with traveling across state line while indicted for a state-law felony.<br> <br> Arizona bans short-barreled rifles. Ariz. Rev. Stat. §§ 13-3101(A)(8)(a)(iv),<br> 13-3102(A)(3). In December 2020, a Phoenix police officer alleged that Brandon Glen<br> Jackson “knowingly did manufacture, possess, transport, sell, or transfer†one. J.A. 58.<br> That alleged conduct led state prosecutors to charge Jackson
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Gary Hall
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possession of Firearm and Ammunition by Convicted Felon in School Zone </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Baltimore Recidivist Sentenced for Possession of Firearm and Ammunition by Convicted Felon in School Zone</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i"></b></center></i><br> <center><h2><br> <br> Gary Hall
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Wesley Phillip Wilson, Jr.
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Greenbelt, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Upper Marlboro Man Pleads Guilty to String of Bank Robbery, Firearms Offenses</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i"></b></center></i><br> <center><h2><br> <br> Wesley Phillip Wil
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Tamika Nicole Jones
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Aggravated Identity Theft </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Miami Woman Indicted on Federal Aggravated Identity Theft Charges</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i"></b></center></i><br> <center><h2><br> <br> A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging a Miami woman with 16 federal charges in c
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Allan Shaw
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition by a Prohibited Person </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Baltimorean Pleads Guilty to Possession of Firearm and Ammunition by Convicted Felon</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <center><h2><br> <br> Allan Shaw, 36, of Baltimore, Maryland, ple
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Jaiden Thomas
Greenbelt, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second-degree murder.<br> <br> <img width="300" src="https://wjla.com/resources/media2/16x9/1920/648/center/90/016a180b-f335-4c90-b1d8-883b045674a7-Yourparagraphtext.jpg"><br> <br> Jaiden Thomas of Silver Spring, Maryland, age 20, was accused of shooting and killing Rasheed Davis, age 18, on December 15, 2024. Thomas was charged with murder for his alleged connection to a shooting that left a person dead and ano
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Kelly Talbert
Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with h first- and second-degree assault, and other related firearm charges.<br> <br> <img width="400" src="https://news.maryland.gov/msp/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2025/07/Talbert-Kelly-1.jpg"><br> <br> At approximately 6:00 a.m. on July 7, 2025, the Maryland State Police Golden Ring Barrack received an emergency call from a motorist who advised another motorist pointed a copper-colored firearm at them while traveling
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jose Alberto Sibrian Garcia
Baltimore, Maryland pro se Defendant without a lawyer attempted to represent himself on a
View VerdictUnited States of America v. JaMes Geneva Holloway
Greenbelt, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349.<br> <br>
View VerdictLeah P. Hollis v. Morgan State University, et al.
Baltimore, Maryland employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on d Title VII, Title IX, Section 1983, and Maryland state law violation theories.<br> <br> Dr. Leah Hollis alleges that in her former job as a professor at Morgan State University, the university denied her promotions multiple times because of her sex, paid her less than her male colleagues, and retaliated against her when she formally complained of this discrimination. She claims that this conduct, by the university and specif
View VerdictState of Maryland v. Eugene Gligor
Rockville, Maryland criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder.<br> <br> Eugene Gligor pleaded guilty to the 2001 killing of Leslie Preer in Chevy Chase, Maryland, after his DNA was linked to the crime scene.<br>
View VerdictRaminder Kaur v. Warden, Maryland Correctional Institution for Women
Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant seeking a writ of habeas corpus.<br> <br> It would be “intolerable†to require a criminal defendant to surrender “one<br> constitutional right . . . in order to assert another.†Simmons v. United States, 390 U.S. 377,<br> 394 (1968). Yet that is what Raminder Kaur asserts occurred here. After her first criminal<br> trial in Maryland state court was marred by ineffective assistance of counsel, Kaur move
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