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What Defendants Should Know About Assault and Aggravated Assault in Dallas There are many different kinds of assaults in Dallas, and the difference between a felony and a misdemeanor often comes down to the severity of the assault. In 2016, there were 4,529 assaults in Dallas, which was a sharp increase from the 3,943 assaults…
Dallas Criminal Lawyer Discusses – Common Questions About Probation in Texas When you commit a crime in Texas, you may be ordered to serve probation. To avoid confusion, it’s important to acknowledge that in Texas, probation is also referred to as community supervision. Probation can seem like a scary thing when you don’t know anything…
Many of the forensic analysis techniques used to secure convictions in the 1980s and 1990s have been debunked as ‘junk science.’ Blood-stain pattern forensic analysis is the latest technique to be undermined in a case involving a Texas educator. Joe Bryan, a former school principal from Texas, has spent more than 30 years in prison…
Texas prisons are tough and uncompromising places. As well as facing dangers on a daily basis, inmates were targeted by unscrupulous employees, according to an investigation. Several Texas prison employees were indicted earlier in July for allegedly conspiring to plant screwdrivers in an inmate’s cell, the Texas Tribune reported. On the back of the incident,…
Homicide is treated very seriously in Texas. At one end of the spectrum is capital murder which can lead to the death penalty. Criminally negligent homicide is at the other end of the scale. A charge of criminally negligent homicide is brought only in very specific cases. This month, a jury in Collin County found…
A 66-year-old man in a wheelchair who claimed his veins would not handle a lethal injection failed to halt his death by lethal injection in Texas. Danny Bible was executed last month almost 40 years after the body of 20-year-old Inez Deaton was found in a field near a car wash in Harris County. Bible…
White collar crimes may not cause physical harm to victims like crimes of violence but they often attract tough sentences. Late last month, a former Texas state senator was sentenced to 12 years in a federal prison over his involvement in a Ponzi scheme. Sen. Carlos Uresti was contrite when he appeared before a federal…
Clint Broden Dallas Criminal Lawyer in the news: – Source (By Adam Faderewski on June 25, 2018) — Dallas, TX – F. Clinton Broden, of Dallas, and Casie L. Gotro, of Houston, were selected as the Percy Foreman Lawyers of the Year based on their representation in the Twin Peaks litigation, which arose from the…
Scams targeting elderly people are endemic in Texas. Older people are more vulnerable to fraudsters leading police departments to step up awareness campaigns to protect the elderly. Recently, the Dallas Morning News featured the work of Christopher Bianez, an officer with the Plano Police Department. AARP Magazine featured Bianez on the cover of its March…
Cybercrime has become such a common term, it’s hard to believe that computer and internet crimes didn’t exist less than half a century ago. Before computers, robbing someone required breaking into their home or snatching their purse or wallet on the street. Today, people can commit these crimes without ever seeing or contacting the victim….