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State of Tennessee v. Alexander Franklin Rodriguez, et al.
Nashville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of a kilo of cocaine. Alexander Franklin Rodriguez, age 33, was driving a pickup truck that was stopped on Murfreesboro Pike. He consented to a search of his truck and the drugs were found in the console.
View VerdictState of Tennessee v. Alexander Franklin Rodriguez
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking. Alexander Franklin Rodriguez, age 33, was found to have possession of a kilo of cocaine.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Oleksandr Didenko
Washington, D.C. criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant wire fraud and identity theft. Oleksandr Didenko, 29, of Kyiv, Ukraine, fraudulently inflicted systemic and deliberate financial harm on U.S. companies and American citizens to benefit not only himself, but a hostile nation state,” said Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky of the FBI’s Counterintelligence and Espionage Division. “The FBI will not tolerate North Korea’s sustained campaign to victimize American citizens, b
View VerdictUnited States of America v. James Lafayette Moore
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. On August 24, 2025, James Lafayette Moore, age 51, of Nashville, Tennessee, shot an unarmed man four times in the face, neck, and upper body at point blank range on the balcony of My Town Extended Stay on Antioch Pike in Nashville. The shooting was captured on video surveillance cameras. Following the shooting, innocent bystanders assisted law enforcement by
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Shaneika Seymore
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with mail fraud and bank fraud.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jared Goodman
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interstate domestic violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2261, which provides: (a) Offenses.— (1) Travel or conduct of offender.— A person who travels in interstate or foreign commerce or enters or leaves Indian country or is present within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States with the intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate a spouse, intimate partner, or dating partn
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Edward Allen and Deandre Rodgers
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murdering by gunshot a fellow gang member who they suspected of betraying the gang. Edward Allen, also known as E-Money, 42, and Deandre Rodgers, a.k.a. Dre, 29, both of Memphis, were high-ranking members of a criminal enterprise that controlled territory throughout the entire city of Memphis and extended beyond to Arkansas and Mississippi. Members of UVL committed murders, robberies, assaults, human trafficki
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Mark Janbakhsh
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Mark Janbakhsh, 51, of Brentwood, Tennessee, was with multiple multiple federal fraud charges, including Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud, Bank Fraud, Making False Statements to a Bank, Bankruptcy Fraud, and Making False Statements Under Oath Three other co-conspirators, each of whom had previously pled guilty, were also sentenced for their involvement in the fraud scheme. Ron
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jonathan D. Frost
Chattanooga, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering, and Conspiracy to Defraud the United States. Jonathan D. Frost, 42, of Soddy Daisy, Tennessee, participated in a scheme in which investments were solicited for the purpose of building and operating a facility that would use solar power to extract hydrogen gas from water. However, the funds that were raised were never used for building
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Andrew Worrall
Knoxville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of a child and enticement. Andrew Worrall, 56, a British national currently residing in Knox County, Tennessee, Worrall contacted a 17-year-old minor female on the Snapchat application using the internet in July 2025. Knowing the age of the child, Worrall requested nude pictures of the child. The child complied. Worrall then requested the child insert a foreign object into her body
View VerdictState of Tennessee v. Bryce Grant-Martin
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated battery. Bryce Grant-Martin was arrested and charged with aggravated battery, intimidation with a deadly weapon and pointing a firearm.
View VerdictState of Tennessee v. Andrew Bauer
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Andrew Bauer, 49, was arrested after stabbing a woman in the hand Sunday night in southwest Louisville.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Nathan Lee Westbrook
Knoxville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2). On February 21, 2025, investigators with the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations – Internet Crimes Against Children (HSI-ICAC) Task Force received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) that a user on Kik uploaded and distributed six video files containing child pornog
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Mark Janbakhsh
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud, Bank Fraud, Making False Statements to a Bank, Bankruptcy Fraud, and Making False Statements Under Oath. Mark Janbakhsh, 51, of Brentwood, Tennessee, was the chief executive officer and majority owner of a car dealership company named Auto Masters. In addition to Auto Masters, Janbakhsh owned several other Nashville area businesses, including Plaza Mariachi. Between approximat
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Amanda Kate Walker Bass
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with to one count of wire fraud and one count of fraudulent use of military medals, otherwise known as “Stolen Valor.” Amanda Kate Walker Bass, 36, of Fayette County, claimed to be a multiple-time deployed U.S. Marine Corps veteran who was the lone survivor of an enemy ambush in Afghanistan in 2010 that left her seriously wounded. She used this fictitious narrative for financial gain.
View VerdictState of Tennessee v. Mark Anthony Sexton, Jr. and Mark Anthony Sexton III
Jonesborough, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with murder. Mark Anthony Sexton, Jr. and Mark Anthony Sexton III were accused of killing Johnson City convenience store clerk Tava Woodard, age 23, in 2023.
View VerdictState of Tennessee v. Austin Robert Drummond
Jackson, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with four counts of first-degree murder, one count of aggravated kidnapping and weapons offenses. Austin Robert Drummond, 28, was taken into custody amid a search, and accused of parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a front yard.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Tyler Shane Wells
Knoxville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens and conspiracy to forcibly assault, resist, impeded, intimidate and interfere with any person in performance of official duties. Tyler Shane Wells, 33, of Morristown, TN, and Alexander Bonilla-Servin, 18, of Smyrna, TN, conspired: to conceal and harbor illegal aliens for the purpose of commercial advantage and private financial gain, in violation of 8 U.S.C § 1324;
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Juan Alvarado-Garcia
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm. Juan Alvarado-Garcia, 29, of Madison, Tennessee, has been charged by criminal complaint with unlawful possession of a firearm by an illegal alien, and Samuel Hernandez, 32, of Madison, Tennessee, has been charged by criminal complaint with unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennes
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Christopher Walker
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer Barry McWhirter represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transportation of a firearm, possession of a machine gun, and trafficking in marijuana. In October 2024, ATF agents conducted an undercover operation targeting the sale of Machinegun Conversion Devices (MCD) and illegal drugs. Christopher Walker, 38, of Memphis, sold a confidential informant 98 grams of marijuana and a firearm while on duty as a security guard at a local motel. A second
View VerdictState of Tennessee v. Raymond Dowdy
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. raymond Dowdy, age 88, accused of killing a woman he lived with.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Tyrell Wallace
Jackson, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with knowingly possessing actual methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. Tyrell Wallace, a guard at the Dyer County Jail, reported to work on October 24, 2024. Investigators stopped Wallace and announced an administrative search. Inside Wallace’s waistband, investigators recovered 53 grams of actual methamphetamine with a purity level of 100%, 165 grams of marijuana, 26 grams of fentanyl, 3 grams of crack c
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Joshua M. Rogers
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with destroying evidence related to a police officer’s fatal shooting of a man identified by the initials R.H. Joshua M. Rogers, age 33, plea established that Rogers’ co-defendant, Patric J. Ferguson, was on duty as an officer with the Memphis Police Department when Ferguson kidnapped and fatally shot R.H. on January 5, 2021. The defendant aided Ferguson in covering up the fatal shooting. The defendant assiste
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jason Alexander Jerkins
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with stealing money from his clients’ bank accounts, preparing false tax returns that fraudulently increased their refunds, and stealing some or all of those refunds. Jason Alexander Jerkins of Franklin pleaded guilty on July 30, 2025. According to court documents and statements made in court, Jerkins, owner of Jerkins Business Solutions, provided bookkeeping, payroll, tax-return preparation, and similar account
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Courtney Sterling
Greenville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Distribute 50 Grams or More of Methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1), and (b)(1)(A), Possession of a Firearm as an Illegal Alien, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(5), and Aggravated Re-entry, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a), (b)(2). In November of 2022, the Johnson City, Tennessee Police Department (JCPD) was notified about a shipment of marijuana that was sch
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Milder Escobar-Temal
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(A), Milder Escobar-Temal is a citizen of Guatemala who came to America unlawfully over a decade ago and resides in Nashville, Tennessee. In October 2022, police found three firearms in Escobar-Temal’s residence. Escobar-Temal was born in Guatemala in 1987. While in Guatemala, he married and had one daughter. His daughter had a serious i
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Stacy Owens
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with onspiring to distribute controlled substances. In June 2019, as part of an investigation of a large-scale drug conspiracy, federal agents intercepted two mail parcels addressed to Owens’s residence. Those parcels together contained nearly five kilograms of methamphetamine. An undercover agent then delivered the parcels to Owens’s residence, and she accepted them. Postal records also showed that,
View VerdictState of Tennssee v. Paul Edward
Memphis, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with pointing a firearm. Paul Edwards allegedly pointed a firearm at the driver of another vehicle in a road rage incident in East Memphis.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Maurice Harris
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with committing a series of armed robberies of businesses in October 2024. Maurice Harris, age 32, of Memphis, conducted a series of armed robberies of the following businesses within the Western District of Tennessee: October 4, 2024: Metro by T-Mobile - 4673 Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, TN October 7, 2024: Cricket Wireless - 1129 S. Dupress Street, Brownsville, TN October 10, 2024: AT&T - 52
View VerdictState of Tennessee v. Niketa Jenkins
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapons. Niketa Jenkins was accused of shooting her boyfriend in the leg on South Seventh Street.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Keviana Thomas
Nashville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with aggravated assault. Keviana Thomas was apprehended for allegedly shooting a woman on 17th Avenue North.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Philip Taylor Sobash
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of a minor, while also admitting to sexually exploiting six other minors. Between October 2018 and May 2019, Philip Taylor Sobash, age 35, of Austin, Texas, then a practicing physician, engaged in an online sexually explicit relationship with Minor Victim 1, who resided in the Middle District of Tennessee. This online relationship began after they connected on a dating website that facilit
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Xue Rong Wu
Greenville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of conspiracy to harbor aliens for the purpose of commercial advantage and private financial gain in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(iii) and (v)(I), (a)(1)(B)(i) and one count of aiding and abetting the practice and pattern of hiring for employment aliens not authorized to be employed in the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324a(a)(1)(A) and (f)(1), 18 U.S.C. § 2.
View VerdictState of Tennessee v. Ronald Gray
Blountville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug possession and trafficking.
View VerdictEllen Marie Cali v. Robert George Cali
Jackson, Tennessee, family law lawyers represented the parties in a divorce. On December 15, 2012, Appellee Ellen Marie Cali ("Mother") and Appellant Robert George Cali ("Father") were married. Two children were born to the marriage, Isaiah (d/o/b October 2015) and Selah (d/o/b September 2019) (together, the "Children"). Isaiah has special needs due to his autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ("ADHD") diagnoses. During the parties' marriage, Isaiah was diagnosed with cancer, un
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Gene Curtis Roper
Greenville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with failure to register as a sex offender. * * * Supervised release is a “form of postconfinement monitoring overseen by the sentencing court.” Johnson v. United States, 529 U.S. 694, 696-97 (2000). During a supervised-release period, defendants must follow certain conditions—for example, a rule against “commit[ting] another Federal, State, or local crime” and (typically) a requirement to submit to d
View VerdictJamita Swearengen v. KTDS Trucking Services, LLC et al.
Memphis, Tennessee, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on an auto negligence truck wreck claim.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Rasshaun Morris
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.
View VerdictCherisse Marquita Anderson v. Social Security Administration
Memphis, Tennessee, social security disability lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking review of the denial by HHS of her application for Social Security: DIWC/DIWW benefits.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Gary Crawford
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Gary Crawford has a long, mostly violent criminal record. It began at the age of sixteen, with convictions for criminally negligent homicide and reckless endangerment: he fired a handgun into a crowd and killed someone. In his early twenties came several more convictions, including one for simple possession of marijuana and two for possessing it with intent to dis
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Patric J. Ferguson
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with r civil rights, firearms, kidnapping, and obstruction offenses in connection with the fatal shooting of a man identified by the initials R.H. Patric J. Ferguson, 34, a former Memphis Police Department Officer, was sentenced to prison. “This defendant committed a premeditated murder while using his position as a police officer, not to protect the Memphis community, but to perpetrate this horrendous crime a
View VerdictAlyssia Moulton v. Southern Health Partners, Inc. et al.
Nashville, Tennessee, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights violation theory.<br>
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Antonio Dooley
Nashville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Tony Orlando Hughes
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution and possession of with intent to distribute cocaine.
View VerdictState of Tennessee v. Travis Weatherly
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated sexual battery committed against his nine-year-old victim.<br> <br> On appeal, the petitioner argues trial counsel was ineffective for failing to prepare the petitioner for trial, failing to pursue a defense, and failing to argue for a lower range at sentencing. The State contends the post-conviction court properly denied relief.
View VerdictState of Tennessee v. Niketa Jenkins
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer will represent the Defendant charged with attempted reckless homicide.<br> <br> Niketa Jenkins was accused of shooting her boyfriend in the leg on South Seventh Street.
View VerdictState of Tennessee v. Keviana Thomas
Nashville, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer will represent the Defendant charged with aggravated assault<br> <br> Keviana Thomas was apprehended for allegedly shooting a woman on 17th Avenue North.
View VerdictUnited States of America v. Jaylen Simpson
Memphis, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with cartjacking resulting in serious bodily injury and discharging a firearm during the carjacking.<br> <br> On May 16, 2024, at around 7:45 a.m., Jaylen Simpson, 23, of Memphis, shot a 60-year-old victim in the stomach as the victim stepped outside his home to mow the lawn. Simpson, who had been hiding in the victim’s backyard, then stole the victim’s car keys and fled in his vehicle.
View VerdictState of Tennessee v. Kejuan King
Memphis, Tennessee, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a /firearm and second-degree murder.<br> <br> On the afternoon of January 13, 2017, Adarrell Anderson arrived at the Grizzly Mart gas station and store with two friends, Anthony Holloway and Julin Sanders. As the trio pulled into the parking lot, they noticed a silver, four-door Hyundai car entering the parking lot from the opposite direction. All three men recognized Defendant as th
View VerdictRebecca Edwards v. Shelby County, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on e Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) violation theory.<br> <br> Rebecca Edwards, a former Shelby County Health Department employee, brought this action under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), asserting three claims. She alleed that the County (1) discriminated against her based on her<br> night blindness, (2) retaliated against her for requesting a related accommodation, and (3) failed<br> to accommodate a s
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