Browning Law News Blog

On July 5, 2020, Texas police discovered the body of Spc. Vanessa Guillen. Actually, they discovered her "remains," as she had been cut to pieces by her murderer and his girlfriend.  Ms. Guillen had gone missing April 22, 2020, from her post at Ft. Hood, Texas.  According to police reports, 20 year old Specialist Aaron Robinson bludgeoned her to death with a hammer on that date.  July 1, 2020, as police approached Robinson, he committed suicide. In the days that followed, police arrested Robinson's girlfriend, Cecily Aguilar.  Ms. Aguilar, the estranged wife of another soldier at Ft. Hood, was charged with conspiracy to tamper with evidence.  After questioning, she admitted she helped her boyfriend cut up the body of Spc. Guillen and put the pieces into a box.  The couple then took the box to a remote location in the county, dumped the remains into three holes in the ground and covered over the holes.  Aguilar was able to tell the police where the holes were located.

I have the pleasure of announcing the Idaho Supreme Court has found in favor of my client in its August 3, 2020 decision,  Packer v. Riverbend Communications , 2020 Ida LEXIS 167 (2020).  This was actually the third consecutive Supreme Court case I have argued and won, the other two being    Nelson v. Kaufman 458 P.3d 139 (2020) and  Gallagher v. Best Western Cottontree Inn , 161 Idaho 542 (2017).  In each instance, the district court judge had dismissed my client's case, but the Supreme Court reversed that decision on appeal.  Life is good.   More information about the case can be found here :  https://law.justia.com/cases/idaho/supreme-court-civil/2020/46964.html