Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, hundreds of people usually drown in swimming pools across the nation. About 70 percent of these victims are children under 5. Many other victims sustain permanent brain injuries. Drownings are the most common and most deadly kind of swimming p...
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Five DWI Defenses in Parker County
In 2018, Texas law enforcement officers arrested over 95,000 Texans for DWI. That figure was almost 10 percent higher than the 2017 arrest total. Prosecutors are very aggressive as well. The number of dismissals dropped sharply in 2018. In other words, Parker County prosecutors a...
Reckless Driver Seriously Injures Four Teenagers
A car crash in Central Texas profoundly affected the lives of five North Texas families, as the wreck killed one person and seriously injured four others. The collision occurred in Georgetown on State Highway 130. According to witnesses, 18-year-old Dezirae Fregoso lost control ...
Texas Lawmakers Change Marijuana Rules
In the 2018-19 session, Texas lawmakers expanded the medical marijuana rules and legitimized CBD oil. However, a bill to decriminalize low-level possession failed. The original Compassionate Use Act only made medical marijuana available to people with severe seizure disorders. H...
Fatal Rear-End Crash on 820
A box truck apparently rear-ended a Corvette on the eastbound side of the freeway, killing the Corvette driver almost instantly. According to police and witnesses, the Corvette driver was only travelling about 20mph in the carpool lane, because of mechanical issues. The box truc...
Prosecutors Refile Charges in Vince Young Case
In February 2019, police charged the former quarterback with DWI. Fort Bend County prosecutors recently reduced those charges. And, Young may not even be convicted of that offense. Young's Houston-based lawyer convinced prosecutors to reduce the charges to obstructing a highway,...
Supreme Court Upholds ‘Separate Sovereignties’ Exception
By a 7-2 vote, the highest court in the land once again reaffirmed the federal government's power to retry an individual for the same offense. Writing for the majority in Gamble v. United States, Justice Samuel Alito argued these situations do not fall within the Fifth Amendment...
Is Jail Release Important?
Pretrial release is obviously important from a personal perspective. It's also important from a legal perspective. The presumption of innocence is one of the bedrock principles of the American justice system. If the defendant remains in jail, that presumption of innocence essenti...
DWI Drug Cases in Parker County
Largely because of the extremely broad definitions in Texas Penal Code Section 49.04, "drugged driving" cases are more common than "drunk driving" cases in many jurisdictions. Under Texas law, any "substance" can cause intoxication. That substance could be an illegal street drug,...
What to Expect in a Car Crash Case
The vast majority of personal injury cases, over 90 percent in some jurisdictions, settle before trial. But this statistic only tells part of the story. A few cases settle right away. A good illustration is a tortfeasor (negligent driver) who makes a rolling right turn at a red ...
