The Bryant Law Center in association with Fayard and Honeycutt of Baton Rouge, La. in October 2009 concluded a complex six year case involving a Canadian National train derailment in Tamaroa, Illinois with the dispersal of funds made to 435 adults and juvenile clients who were evacuees and or victims.
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With Hollywood director Roman Polanski's arrest in the news, WPSD-TV on Oct. 1 interviewed attorney Mark Bryant concerning a very similar case involving Bronston Jones, a former Paducah physician. Prior to sentencing, Jones fled to Sweeden in 1980 after being convicted of sexually abusing several Paducah children. As the prosecutor who convicted Jones, Bryant flew to Sweden to try to secure his extradition, a battle that has lingered for 29 years.
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Attorney Emily Roark last year successfully petitioned the Kentucky Supreme Court to overturn a Graves Circuit Court sexual abuse conviction. In May 2009 published opinion, the Supreme Court of Kentucky reversed the conviction and ordered the case remanded to Graves circuit court with new guidance on the admissibility of evidence. After being imprisoned for 3.5 years, the defendant has been released on bond.
Attorney Emily Roark prevailed in an argument stemming from a local case argued before the Court of Appeals in 2008 which ruled the defense did not have to provide the prosecution with a list of any expert witnesses it intended to call.
In a case heard by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, attorney Emily Roark successfully appealed to exclude illegally obtained evidence used to convict a McCracken County towboat captain. The Court ruled in a published opinion that a canine search was illegal and thus, the evidence could not be used.
The Bryant Law Center is representing several dozen clients who were displaced by a fatal train derailment and explosion this summer in Rockford, Illinois.
The Bryant Law Center has recently accepted as clients miners who were injured in a July 8 accident at the Paradise # 9 underground coal mine in Muhlenberg County.
The Bryant Law Center is representing the estate of a Hopkinsville trucking company owner who was fatally injured in an accident February 17, 2009, at Knight Hawk Coal LLC in Perry County, Illinois.
