Case Results

Domestic Violence
Assault escalating to Aggravated Assault involving Serious Bodily Injury

A client was facing three separate domestic violence charges involving three different alleged victims in three separate counties. The cases all occurred over a relatively short period of time and the victims’ injuries had become progressively more serious; the first victim was allegedly just pushed, the second was allegedly choked and the third victim’s arm had been broken.

I coordinated and oversaw the client’s defense in all three cases. I represented the client alone in the second case and put together a trial team including politically connected and/or accomplished trial attorneys in the counties where they were needed. I got the first two cases dismissed on various motions.

The third case went to trial and resulted in a hung jury. Before the second trial began, however, it was learned that that the prosecution had failed to turn over Brady material and the case was dismissed.

Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon and Deadly Conduct

Client a rap artist, was arrested on suspicion of being the primary shooter in a gangland-style shootout at a public housing complex. In fact, the client had not been involved. But one of the client’s rivals was accusing him of being the shooter and the rival’s followers were falsely claiming to have witnessed the client spraying the complex with an assault rifle.

Police were asking the DA to return six felony indictments against the client, including one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and five counts of deadly conduct. One ”victim” in particular, whose apartment had been shot up (“Victim A”), had not truly seen the shooting, but was nevertheless insisting that my client had been the shooter.

I got the client’s bonds lowered from $ 600,000 to $ 250,000 and submitted a pre-indictment “packet” to the DA’s office in an effort to keep the client from being indicted. Although the client was initially charged, the cases were ultimately dismissed after I forced Victim A to confess that he had not really witnessed the shooting.

Serial Drug Manufacturing and Delivery Charges, along with DUI

The client was a former personal shopper at a Madison Avenue jewelry store who moved to the Dallas area and subsequently developed a serious drug habit. He was arrested three times within nine months for possession of large quantities of meth, resulting in manufacturing and delivery charges. While out on bond, the client was also pulled over and arrested for DUI.

I got the first man/del charge reduced and pled the client to two-years’ probation. I got the second man/del charge thrown out on a motion to suppress. I got the third case reduced as well; the client ended up doing a total of 12 months’ probation on both the third drug charge and the DUI. The DA’s offices in both counties later filed a series of motions to revoke the client’s probation(s). I managed to defeat them all.

Probation Revocation Defeated Following Hearing

A gentleman who lived in Dallas for many years fell into a cycle of addiction and petty crime. He pled guilty to a series of felony theft, drug and false I.D. charges and received five years’ probation.

As part of his probation, he agreed to in-patient treatment. Eventually he was paroled to a halfway house where everyone around him was doing drugs. Desperate to avoid relapse, he fled to Maine, where his long-estranged father took him in and helped him create a new life. He stopped doing drugs and alcohol and became a model citizen. Two years later, however, he was stopped for a minor traffic violation, the fugitive warrant was found, and he was arrested and sent back to Dallas.

The client’s father hired me shortly after the client arrived back in Dallas. I filed a series of motions and took the revocation case(s) to trial. Following a contested hearing, the judge ruled in my client’s favor, terminated the client’s remaining probation(s), and the client returned to his new life in Maine, a free man.