Case Results

  • Jury Verdict Not Guilty Manslaughter

    Client was a local police officer charged with manslaughter for being in a car accident while responding to a call that resulted in the death of a civilian. The state alleged that the officer was responsible because the manner in which the officer was driving was reckless. The state’s expert missed the fact in their investigation that the officer’s brakes had failed which contributed if not actually caused the accident. The foreman of the jury informed me that after the 5 day trial it took them less than 10 minutes to come to the not guilty conclusion. Never trust a state’s expert’s conclusions.

  • Jury Verdict Not Guilty Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon

    Client was charged with aggravated assault for firing a shot into another individual’s tire as they were trying to drive off. Client was a retired man who maintains he only shot the tire because the other person had stolen valuable papers from him and did not want him to leave before the police arrived. Because the client had been to prison previously, the possible punishment range was 5 years to life in prison and the state would only offer my client a deal that would send him to prison. So we went to trial and beat them.

  • Jury Verdict Not Guilty Possession of a Controlled Substance
    Client was a young man in his twenties who was arrested at a movie theater for public intoxication, a charge that the client later only paid a fine for. Once the officer got to the jail he took my client out of the back of his patrol car and claims he found a bag of cocaine where my client was seated. He was then charged with two felonies for possession and tampering with evidence by attempting to conceal the drugs. I argued successfully to the jury that the officer searched my client prior to putting him in the car and did not find a bag of cocaine on top of the fact that Texas law states merely being in a location where drugs are found is not sufficient to prove actual possession. The jury agreed with me that anyone who had been in the backseat of that patrol car could have left those drugs in there before my client was every placed back there.
  • Jury Verdict Not Guilty Intoxication Assault

    Client was detailing his high performance sports car while consuming a couple of beers one afternoon. He then decided to take it for a spin around the block. As he was crossing the street he was t-boned by a teenager delivering pizza and speeding. Since my client smelled of alcohol, of course he charged with a criminal offense even though he did not cause the accident. The teenager suffered several broken bones and a broken leg. I was able to successfully keep out of evidence all records that showed my client’s blood alcohol level, as they were obtained illegally by the police. The Court granted my motion to suppress both the warrant that the police used to take my client’s blood and all my client’s medical records from the hospital; without any evidence of intoxication, the jury was quick to come back with a not guilty verdict.

  • Case Dismissed Intoxication Manslaughter/Assault

    The police claim my client was driving on the wrong side of the road while intoxicated and hit another vehicle head on causing death and serious bodily injuries. After I conducted an extensive investigation of the state’s evidence, I was able to determine that the arresting officer committed perjury and forgery in obtaining a search warrant for my client’s blood. This all in addition to the fact that the warrant itself was defective. Once I brought this information to the attention of the District Attorney he dismissed all charges.

  • Jury Verdict Not Guilty Assault Family Violence by Strangulation

    Client was charged with a felony for allegedly assaulting his mother in law by choking her. It was clear to me that the only contact my client made with her was in self-defense of himself and another as he was trying to hold her back and may have unintentionally made contact with her throat. The jury agreed that any contact was a case of self-defense.

  • Jury Verdict Not Guilty Driving While Intoxicated

    Client was a local attorney who backed into an off duty officer’s vehicle in a restaurant parking lot. I launched an all-out attack on the unreliable so-called scientific evidence that the state alleged proved my client was intoxicated. The jury did not believe that the state produced any reliable information that my client was intoxicated and quickly gave us the acquittal that we desired.

  • Jury Verdict Not Guilty Burglary of a Habitation Committing Sexual Assault

    Client was alleged to have entered a trailer house without consent and raped a women that he knew. The reality was that he had permission to be inside the residence and the sexual acts were consensual. This was a case where a married women was caught cheating and was willing to through my client’s life away to protect her own marriage. Because of my client’s past criminal history he was looking at 15 years to life in prison. The state offered my client a deal of 35 years, but we told the state no thank you and proceeded to beat them at trial. My client walked out a free man.

  • Jury Verdict Not Guilty Manslaughter

    Client was charged with 4 counts of manslaughter and a 5th count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon where he was involved in a traffic accident that left 4 people dead and one permanently disabled. We argued that although my client was civilly at fault for the accident because he ran a stop sign, he was not criminally responsible because he did not engage in acts that would constitute reckless as that term is defined for manslaughter. My client was acquitted of all charges.

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