Another fantastic result for one of my clients today! I had a client come to me months ago, a real sweet kid who did something dumb. She was embarrassed but took ownership of it and needed my help to keep this one-time mistake from haunting her for the rest of her life. The problem was […]
As a criminal defense lawyer, seeing old clients can be a bad thing if it means they’ve picked up a new charge or are accused of messing up a probation you worked so hard to get them. I sometimes joke with clients: “I hope I never see you again unless it’s random, like at the […]
Two years ago I got appointed to a client charged with capital murder. The case was featured on A&E’s absolutely terrible program “First 48” where they painted my client as not only guilty as sin, but as some sort of criminal kingpin in his area. It took two years of my client waiting in jail, […]
Right on the heels of a dismissal of a trumped-up aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge, I got another client’s two felonies dismissed today. This ends a long ordeal for my client, one that not only includes getting arrested, jailed, and charged with two serious felony cases, but also being represented by several different lawyers. […]
Dismissed… that’s a sweet word for many of my clients. It’s an end to a nightmare, to being arrested, held in jail, charged with a crime. It’s an end to having to go to court a dizzying number of times. It’s an end to the worry (“will this end up on my record forever?…”). Today […]