General Criminal Defense Archives

Alleged Dallas-area ISIS supporter goes on trial for recruiting jihadists to kill nonbelievers (DallasNews.com)

May 2, 2019 by James Whalen

Article by Kevin Krause, Federal Courts Reporter, published on DallasNews.com on 04/30/2019 “ISIS will chop your head off.” That was how Taryn Meeks began her opening statement Tuesday to a federal jury in Dallas that’s hearing testimony in the international terrorism trial of a Richardson man. Meeks, a trial attorney with the Justice Department’s National […]

Category: Firearms and Weapons, General Criminal Defense, News

North Texas terror suspect to go on trial at end of April (fox4news.com)

April 17, 2019 by James Whalen

Article published on fox4news.com on Apr 15 2019 06:07PM CDT A Richardson man accused of using social media to promote terrorist attacks is set to go on trial at the end of this month. A judge on Monday denied Said Rahim attorney’s request to suppress statements he made to FBI agents. According to court records, […]

Category: Firm News, General Criminal Defense, News, State Crimes, White Collar Crimes

North Texas 18-year-old charged with supporting terrorist group (fox4news.com)

February 13, 2019 by James Whalen

Article published on fox4news.com on Feb 08 2019 04:20PM CST ARLINGTON, Texas – A North Texas 18-year-old faces federal charges after authorities say he conspired to support terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Michael Kyle Sewell, of Arlington, has been charged with conspiring to provide material support and resources to LeT, a Pakistani-based terrorist organization. This charge comes […]

Category: Federal Criminal Defense, Firm News, General Criminal Defense, News

Ex-U.S. Marine Officer Sentenced to 33 Months for Sending Revenge Porn of Young Woman to Her Parents (NewsWeek.com)

February 6, 2019 by James Whalen

Article by James LaPorta, published on NewsWeek.com on 1/29/19 at 3:18 PM It was almost two years ago when congressional members on Capitol Hill first learned about the fear “Kate” was living in. They read about her psychological torment and abuse, her daily anxiety and sleepless nights—all at the hands of her ex-boyfriend, a U.S. Marine officer, […]

Category: General Criminal Defense, News, Uncategorized

Bond Reduction Denied For Adoptive Mom Of Texas Toddler Found Dead (CBSDFW.COM)

January 17, 2019 by James Whalen

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The adoptive mother of a 3-year-old whose body was found in a culvert in 2017 was in a Dallas courtroom this morning. Sini Mathews, who is charged with abandoning or endangering a child, was arrested more than a year ago. She went before Judge Amber Givens-Davis seeking to have her bond, which was originally […]

Category: General Criminal Defense, News, State Crimes

Grand Jury Goes Home After Hearing Evidence in Botham Jean’s Death (NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)

November 30, 2018 by James Whalen

A Dallas County jury continued to hear evidence Wednesday against a Dallas police officer who shot and killed a 26-year-old accountant in his own home in September, according to an official with knowledge of the case. But the grand jury apparently went home for the night without announcing any indictment Wednesday. The next day the […]

Category: Federal Criminal Defense, Firearms and Weapons, General Criminal Defense, News

Grand jury hearing case in Botham Jean shooting death (WFAA.com)

November 26, 2018 by James Whalen

Fired Dallas officer Amber Guyger was arrested on a manslaughter charge. The grand jury decide what charge, if any, to indict Guyger on. Article originally published on wfaa.com on Nov 26, 2018

Category: Firearms and Weapons, General Criminal Defense, News

Plano man gets 7 years for possession of guns and drugs (Starlocalmedia.com)

October 31, 2018 by James Whalen

Article by Kelsey Samuels, originally published in starlocalmedia.com on Oct 24, 2018 A 70-year-old Plano man was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for possession of a firearm while unlawfully in possession of a controlled substance. According to court reports, Alfred Pick threatened to shoot local hospital staffers “in their kneecaps and elbows first […]

Category: Firearms and Weapons, General Criminal Defense, News, Uncategorized

Experts Disagree on Whether Dallas Officer Could Be Credible (APNews.com)

September 20, 2018 by James Whalen

Article by Nomaan Merchant – Associated Press, originally published in APNews.com, Sept. 15, 2018 Dallas police officer Amber Guyger’s explanation that she killed Botham Jean, a neighbor who lived above her, because she mistook his apartment for her own has been dismissed as implausible and self-serving by his family and their lawyers. Experts on police training […]

Category: General Criminal Defense, News

Was the Dallas Cop Who Killed Her Neighbor Given Special Treatment? Not Necessarily. (Dallas Observer)

September 10, 2018 by James Whalen

Article by Christian McPhate, originally published in Dallas Observer, Sept. 10, 2018 Three days passed before Texas Rangers sought a manslaughter charge against Amber Guyger, the off-duty Dallas police officer who police say mistakenly shot and killed her 26-year-old neighbor. Commenters on social media, however, started asking why the officer wasn’t arrested immediately as soon […]

Category: General Criminal Defense, News

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