Fort Worth, TX - Criminal Defense Attorney, Assault


Pearson was accused of assaulting his former girlfriend, Marlie, by throwing a
tricycle at her, grabbing her face and neck and throwing her to the ground, and hitting
her with their car. Before trial, Pearson tried to subpoena documents related to
Marlie in the possession of One Safe Place, a local family-violence cente... More...   $0 (09-27-2020 - TX)

Fort Worth, TX - Criminal Defense Attorney, Aggravated Sexual Assault




A. THE INITIAL OUTCRY
Babin and Angela were married and had three children: Tina and twins Elaine
and Hope. They divorced when the twins were approximately eighteen months old;
Babin was given “extended standard” visitation rights to the three girls.
When Elaine was six and after she had... More...   $0 (09-27-2020 - TX)

Fort Worth, TX - Criminal Defense Attorney, Capital Murder


I. The murder
In December 2016, VanCleave decided to sell some of her jewelry, including two
gold chains and a gold ring, because she and her husband, Mustafah Zaatreh, were
struggling financially. Using the phone application 5miles, VanCleave listed the jewelry
and set up a meeting with a potential buyer, “J... More...   $0 (09-27-2020 - TX)

Montague, Texas, Criminal Defense Attorney, Manslaughter



I. The party
On the night of October 23, Sanders’s then-boyfriend Clint Mahin picked her
up from her workplace in Wichita Falls around 5:30 or 6:00 p.m. and they arrived at her
coworker’s house for a backyard barbecue around 6:15 p.m. At trial, accounts differed
as to how much Sanders had had to drink at ... More...   $0 (09-27-2020 - TX)

Fort Worth, TX - criminal defense attorney, Continuous Sexual Abuse of Young Child or Children


Because Zurita does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to support
his CSA conviction, a detailed recitation of the facts is not necessary. For now, it is
enough to state that Zurita was indicted with the CSA of his stepdaughter, Darla
3
Grant,
1 occurring be... More...   $0 (09-25-2020 - TX)

Fort Worth, Texas, Criminal justice attorney, Order Denying Bail

Appellant Damon Cole attempts to appeal from the trial court’s order granting
the State’s pretrial “Motion to Deny Bond.” Via letter, we notified Cole of our
concern that we lack jurisdiction to consider the trial court’s order because it is not
appealable. See Tex. R. App. P. 44.3; Ragston v. State, 424 S.W.3d... More...   $0 (09-25-2020 - TX)

Denton, TX, Criminal Defense Attorney for Habeas Corpus, Bail case.

Appellant Jeffery Todd Cross has moved to dismiss his appeal of the trial
court’s denial of his application for a pretrial writ of habeas corpus. ... More...   $0 (09-25-2020 - TX)

In 2016, Proposition 57 amended the California Constitution to allow early parole
consideration for persons “convicted of a nonviolent felony.” (Prop. 57, § 32, subd.
(a)(1); Cal. Const., art. I, § 32, subd. (a)(1) (section 32(a)(1)).) Proposition 57 expressly
authorized the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to
promulgate regulations to implement this m... More...   $0 (09-21-2020 - CA)

In 2014, Flores began dating a woman named S.R., who had a daughter named
N.R. N.R. was born in 2011 and was approximately three years old when Flores and
S.R. began dating. Flores and S.R. subsequently had a child together. In the spring
of 2017, when N.R. was approximately six years old, she made an outcry to her
mother by writing her a letter stating that Flores had sexually abu... More...   $0 (09-08-2020 - TX)

The complainant, Anayely Vega Zarraga, testified that in December 2016, she
lived in an apartment in Denton County, Texas and was married to Rubin Mauricio
2 See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 38.15(a)(1), (b); appellate cause no.
01-18-00617-CR; trial court cause no. CR-2017-04223-C.
3 See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 30.05(a)(2), (d); appellate cause no.
01-18-00618-CR; trial court cause n... More...   $0 (09-06-2020 - TX)