Brothers get probation for attack on University of Illinois student

Two Danville, Illinois brothers – 23-year-old Jeremiah Carter and 20-year-old Daniel Carter – who admitted they were involved in an attack against a University of Illinois student on Feb. 22, 2015 at around 3:45 a.m. in the 500 block of East Armory Street in Urbana, have been sentenced to 30 months of probation and have...

Tom Bruno

March 18th, 2015

Tom Bruno achieves favorable sentence for client

Attorney Tom Bruno at Bruno Law Offices was recently able to secure a favorable sentence for his client, 25-year-old Christina Laney. Laney pleaded guilty to battery at a nursing home. However, because of Bruno’s work, Laney was only sentenced to a year of court supervision. If she successfully completes this year of supervision, the conviction...

Criminal Defense

August 20th, 2014

Champaign man charged with assault against his father

The Champaign News Gazette reported that 20-year-old Champaign, Illinois resident Troy Humphrey was arrested and charged with felony aggravated battery on Monday, August 11 after allegedly assaulting an elderly man. According to preliminary investigations made by the police detectives assigned to the case, Humphrey and his 68-year-old father started arguing in their home over who should be...

Criminal Defense

April 28th, 2014

Trial into battery against child continues

Earlier this month, Brittany Wells, the mother of a 14-month-old boy named Kyson who was allegedly the victim of her 26-year-old boyfriend Aaron Tosh’s battery, told a McLean County jury that Tosh caused her son to suffer from a skull fracture and a broken arm. Kyson was recovering from a fall at the time the...