SUCCESS STORIES

The following stories are straight out of our case files, but for confidentiality, we do not list attorney or client names.

ASSAULT & ATTEMPTED MURDER

CHARGES DISMISSED

Drug Charges Sustained:  Our Client, Koy B., was charged with Assaulting and Attempting to Murder a family on their front porch. The man and woman who lived there called the police during the fight. When the police arrived residents and their grown daughter explained how our guy (who was now gone) had attacked them and they did have scratches and bruises. The grown daughter said she came up and witnessed the fight and stated our guy ran away while they were calling the police. The police located our guy at his house down the street and found drugs on him which he never denied having. The family ID'd our guy and the police took him away.

Our guy could not afford an attorney but was fortunate to get a really good, young, aggressive attorney not so prone to take an appointed case and 'plead it out'. He asked the Judge for funds to hire a private investigator and they were approved. We interviewed our guy in the Harris County Jail immediately, but that was still 6-weeks after his arrest. His story was that the grown daughter was a friend of his that he had argued with about drugs. When he went to her house to talk to her again, her family attacked him and beat him up. He still had severe bruising on his arms and legs from where they had hit him with a 2x4 board.

We got permission from the Court and came back later and took photos documenting his injuries. We also talked to neighbors who supported his story. After a second interview with the daughter, she recanted. We took a recorded statement and the attorney presented it with our report and photos to the Prosecutor. He pled out on the drug charge for probation and the Assault & Attempted Murder charges were dismissed 5 1/2 months after his arrest.
 

FALSE ACCUSATION OF SEXUAL ASSAULT:  Our Client Joe D., was charged with sexually assaulting his 14 year old daughter; twelve years later. The daughter, now 26 had been living in Chicago since she was 14 and came to Harris County in 2007 and told the police about the incident. They found a CPS file from 1995 and took the file and the daughter's current statement to the DA who took the charges.

Our Client hired an excellent attorney who asked us to look into the case. Our investigation revealed that the 14-year old girl had only been with her father a short time before making the accusation in 2007 to CPS.  Her mother had sent her to Harris County (from Chicago) in 1995 because she had become unruly. Our Client tried to control her behavior and her wild antics. He tried grounding her and other disciplinary methods that also did not work. She called CPS in 1995 and said that he had molested her. The CPS investigation was determined unfounded and he sent her back to her mother in Chicago.

In the next twelve years she had given birth to a son and been arrested numerous times. Family members had passed her from one to another because of her behavioral problems. She came to Harris County in 2007 because she was fleeing an assault charge on her own son. When she arrived on the father's doorstep, he called Chicago and found out 'why' she was here and told her she could not stay with him. For revenge on being rejected, she called the police and got the old charges looked at again. The officers and the DA did not have "the rest of the story" in the beginning. But when the full story was presented to the Grand Jury, our Client was NO BILLED and all charges were dropped.