Case Results

Our client was charged with federal murder. After two weeks of hire, the jury came back with a hung verdict. This is a good outcome for this level of charge.

Mr. Yoder is the partner in the Firm that specializes in Federal Offenses. He has a very successful practice defending those individuals who have been charged in the federal system. Recently he resolved a case in the Northern District of Ohio where his client was caught using access devices to collect the PIN numbers on ATM machines and also the individual user's passwords. It was alleged that the individuals involved in the conspiracy attempted to withdraw over $1.2 million dollars.

Over an 11 month period of time Mr. Yoder argued not that his client did not help in facilitating the crime, which the client had already admitted to, but he argued that the actual loss was far less than $1.2 million. This was an important factor, because based on the United States Sentencing Guidelines Mr. Yoder's client was facing an increase of 6 points for sentencing. The United States Attorney's Office was not willing to concede this point so the issue was briefed and argued to the Court. After thoroughly researching the issue Mr. Yoder was able to find case law out of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals which allowed the Judge to make a determination that the actual loss was much less and sentence accordingly. At sentencing the Judge found that the actual loss was less than $29,000 and as a result he exercised his discretion and sentenced the client to the lowest possible outcome. A great result for a young client who made a horrible mistake.

In the beginning of 2013, Mr. Yoder resolved a federal gun offense and a distribution in narcotics case in which the Government alleged that Mr. Yoder's client was illegally distributing kilo quantities of Cocaine and in the process was in the illegal possession of a firearm. This was a multi-defendant case and it was known from the beginning that not one of the defendant's was going to cooperate with the Government. Furthermore the Government believed that these individuals were members of a large organized street gang that were responsible for the deaths of numerous people. The Government executed simultaneous search warrants on different locations. However, when they arrested Mr. Yoder's client he did not possess any drugs and they found a pistol in the upstairs closet of his girlfriend's home. Mr. Yoder argued that the information that was contained in the affidavit for the search warrant was false and misleading and lacked any credibility of the affiant. Without filing the motion after six months in which the Government offered a plea agreement of 23 months. Mr. Yoder's client was a career offender and was looking at a possibility of over 200 months.

Our client was charged with Felonious Assault for assaulting another man at a volleyball tournament. Our client pushed the other man and he fell off the bleachers breaking his leg in two places. The Prosecutor's Office was upset with our client for the way he handled the situation and the fact that he resorted to violence at a children's volleyball game. During the course of our investigation we discovered that another spectator had been operating a camera. Although there was not any video footage of the assault we were able to provide to the Prosecutor an audio recording which clearly showed the other man being the aggressor. With that information the Prosecutor's Office offered a misdemeanor assault. Our client rejected that offer and we went to trial. After three days of trial the Jury returned a not guilty verdict.

We represented a client charged federally with conspiring to defraud a bank out of 1 million dollars. We were the second Firm to handle the case and knew that the prior law firm had not done some things that they were supposed to do. After only one month on the case we went to trial. Half way through the trial the U.S. Attorney offered a reduced plea for no prison time. Our client graciously accepted the offer.

Represented a family charged with mortgage fraud. The husband, wife and mom were all charged with different aspects of the fraud. The Attorney General's Office was responsible for the investigation. There were over five thousand documents that were relevant to the case. After a year of pretrial motions and litigation the state dismissed the case against the wife and mom and reduced charges against the husband. Allegedly the amount of the fraud was 2 million dollars.