Much has been written about why innocent people plead guilty to serious charges. Basically, it’s because the possible sentence and penalties (prison/fines) for going to trial are so great that...
https://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/why-do-innocent-people-plead-guilty-ticket-edition/
Good news in the world of DWI’s has emerged from the 85th Texas Legislature. If certain criteria are met, now, it may be possible to file a petition for non-disclosure on DWI convictions. Texas...
https://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/new-house-bill-3016-non-disclosure-dwis/
In Texas our pro conviction appellate courts have blessed the practice of law enforcement profiling drivers and investigating routine traffic stops as drug trafficking. This practice involves a...
https://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/probably-profiled-legal-texas/
So a detective has called you up and invited you down to the local police sheriff’s department for an interview? When you arrive they will tell you that you are free to go at any time, and that...
https://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/detective-called-wants-come-interview/
CLEAT, the largest police union in Texas, has developed a new app to help law enforcement officers across Texas. Now what should be a standard feature in a police app? The traffic code? Yelp list...
https://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/texas-cop-lobby-develops-lawyer-app/
If there is one thing law enforcement hates, it’s the 4th Amendment’s requirement to get a warrant before searching. The reason? Warrants require an officer to have probable cause, and to exp...
If you work in criminal justice long enough you see situations in which rules are broken often. Defendants break rules and face the unbridled wrath of the criminal justice system (which seeks to ...
It’s another No-Refusal weekend across the Metroplex. That means cops are going to seek blood warrant, and hold you down and take your blood vampire style. Murica! First, let’s remember how w...
https://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/how-to-handle-no-refusal-labor-day-weekend/
Texas has a lot of terrible laws, but one thing we don’t allow is DWI checkpoints. The Supreme Court has decided that these can be constitutional but the state legislature must approve them. Ho...
Economics is the study of scarcity and choices. That is, the world has a limited amount of stuff, so what are we going to do about it? One of those limited resources is law enforcement. We only h...