Illinois woman pleads guilty to vehicular homicide

Twenty-four-year-old Philo, Illinois resident Katheryn Daly plead guilty to a single count of reckless vehicular homicide on Monday, March 31. The charge is related to an October 6th, 2013 accident that killed her 19-year-old cousin, Annie. Instead of giving Daly a sentence predetermined by state attorney Julia Rietz and attorney Mark Lipton, Champaign County Judge...

Criminal Defense

March 21st, 2014

Probable cause found to continue Illinois Casey murder trial

Probable cause was found on Wednesday, March 19 to continue the trial of 19-year-old Thomas Messina. Messina was charged for the murder of 54-year-old Casey resident, Gregory Scott Collins. Messina plead not guilty to the murder charges and asked for a jury trial. The pre-trial hearing is scheduled for April 23. June 10 will mark...

Drug Crime Defense

March 13th, 2014

Woman Sentenced to Probation in Connection to Drug Charges

A 20-year-old woman was recently sentenced to 4 years of probation after being convicted on Class 1 felony charges, which can carry sentences as high as 15 years in prison. The woman was accused of being part of a drug selling ring operating in Urbana, IL, and was one of five people arrested on February...

Criminal Defense

March 4th, 2014

Humboldt man pleads not guilty to homicide

The second of two suspects in a fatal heroine overdose case plead not guilty on Monday, February 24. Caleb Thomas, 29, of Humboldt denied responsibility for the December 25, 2013 death of Jeremy Reeley. Reeley’s death was caused by a heroine overdose. Both Thomas and Damien Brooks were charged with drug-induced homicide. Police accounts of...

Criminal Defense

February 13th, 2014

Urbana jury finds defendant not guilty for gun charges

Thursday, February 6, a Champaign County jury acquitted 28-year-old Andre Winters of two counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm. Winters was accused of shooting at 43-year-old Ernest Moseley on Oct. 12, 2013 in east Urbana. Plaintiff Ernest Mosley, 43, claimed that Winters tried to shoot him after a brief altercation. The attorneys at the...

Murder

February 8th, 2014

Man who murdered own mother found not guilty due to insanity

Thirty-two-year-old Champaign, Illinois resident Terry Lee Brownlee was found not guilty by reason of insanity for murdering his mother, 61-year-old Sharon Brownlee last year on Friday, January 31 by Champaign County Judge Heidi Ladd. Brownlee said he also caused a fire that was discovered by the authorities at around 6:10 a.m. He was charged with murder,...

Sex Crimes Defense

January 30th, 2014

New report investigating sexual abuse in schools released; Attorney Tom Bruno referenced

According to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and an article published by NBC News on January 30, the number of children who are abused in schools by teachers, administrators, and other school employees may actually be much greater than statistics show. The GAO states that this is likely due to improper reporting...

Criminal Defense

January 18th, 2014

Beanie Babies founder could be jailed for tax evasion

Sixty-nine-year-old Beanie Babies creator H. Ty Warner pleaded guilty to tax evasion charges on Tuesday, January 14 in a Chicago, Illinois federal court room for evading $25 million in taxes on income that he kept in Swiss national bank accounts. Warner is facing up to five years of imprisonment. He joins the list of high-profile...

Criminal Defense

December 16th, 2013

Man who sexually attacked University of Illinois student sentenced to 60 years in jail

Judge Richard Klaus sentenced 33-year-old Urbana, Illinois resident Gregory Hayes, Jr. to the maximum term of 60 years in prison after being convicted of aggravated criminal sexual assault when he followed a University of Illinois student and sexually attacked her. The lengthy sentence was due in part to a previous conviction in 1996 for the...

Criminal Defense

December 15th, 2013

Aron Ralston in jail for suspicion of domestic violence

Thirty-eight-year-old Aron Ralston, the man whose inspiring story of cutting his right forearm off to save his life after being caught by a boulder in a Utah canyon, prompting the movie 127 Hours, has been incarcerated in the Denver County jail since the night of Saturday, December 7 on suspicion of domestic violence. A Denver Police Department...

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