My most important job, as your criminal defense attorney, is to protect your constitutional rights. I will work tirelessly to keep you informed every step of the way while fiercely fighting for your exoneration and freedom. Whether it's working with a prosecutor, investigator or other law enforcement, my strategy and goal is to prepare and proceed with the strongest possible defense for you.
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DWI
Drug Cases
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Juvenile Offenses
Criminal Felonies
Criminal Misdemeanors
Assaults
Theft/Burglary
Joe believes that the Constitution was written to protect your rights. He believes that your rights must be defended without hesitation and without fail. And he knows that he is uniquely qualified to defend you and your rights.
Joe fervently believes in defending his client’s constitutional rights. He, without a doubt, knows that your most important constitutional rights, that must be protected and zealously defended, are your 4th Amendment rights.
The 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects
against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated and no warrants
shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and
particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Simply put, the police cannot stop you unless they have “reasonable suspicion” to do so. That means that they must reasonably believe that you have committed a crime, are committing a crime or are about to commit a crime, no more, no less. Many excuses are used by the police to attempt to justify this. Such as “your tint is too dark,” “you were driving on the inside lane too long,” “your air freshener obstructed your view,” and on and on, but just because the police say so, does not make it true. Under certain circumstances, the police are allowed to, essentially, lie to you to convince you to admit something, to agree to a search, among other things.
The Constitution is black and white and it was passed by Congress in 1789 to protect the rights of people over 200 years ago and continues to protect the rights of people today. However, you need a strong and knowledgeable attorney who knows what your rights are and who is not afraid to fight and defend your rights.
Any attorney can advise you to accept the prosecutor’s plea offer.
Joe considers the acceptance of a plea offer as a last resort, only considered after every piece of evidence is challenged, after a complete investigation of your case is done and only after making sure that your rights were not violated. An effort, on your behalf, that is less than that is unacceptable.
Other cases are no-billed (denied for prosecution) by a grand jury or dismissed by a prosecutor, when a strong attorney puts the hard work in and presents his, thoroughly researched and diligently investigated defense, to the prosecutor. Many cases are dismissed this way.
Other cases must be tried to a judge or jury. With these cases, you need an attorney that is not afraid to fight for you. Period.
Dismissal of Failure to Stop and Render Aid Causing Serious Bodily Injury.
After a thorough investigation of the case and of the district attorney’s evidence, and after a multitude of pre-trial hearings, in a highly strategic and unheard of move, we offered the district attorney’s office an offer that they could not refuse. It was simple, yet, considered by many, legally brilliant. We offered to agree to allow the prosecutor to admit its entire file of evidence without objection. The prosecutor's file included photographs, arrest reports, witness statements, drawings, medical records, body camera video, among other evidence. The prosecutor did not have to prove up a single piece of evidence. Again, in defense of our client, I offered to let the prosecutor admit every single document that they had without objection. We did so because the district attorney’s own evidence contradicted itself and, more importantly, subsequently, lead to the dismissal of our client’s case.
Bexar County.
Dismissal of Money Laundering and Unlawful Use of a Criminal Instrument. The case was dismissed after a Motion to Suppress All Evidence was filed and successfully argued to the Court. As a result, all evidence seized after an unconstitutional police traffic stop was thrown out by the Court.
Jim Wells County.
Dismissal of Violation of the
Clean Air Act.
After our investigation of the case found that our client could not be guilty of the crime because the prosecutor’s case did not meet the elements of the alleged crime. The prosecutor agreed to dismiss the case.
Jim Wells County.
Dismissal of Possession of Marijuana. This case was dismissed after a Motion to Suppress was filed and successfully argued to the court. The Court ordered that the marijuana could not be used as evidence in the case and the prosecutor was forced to dismiss the case.
Kleberg County.
Dismissal of Aggravated Assault With A Deadly Weapon.
After our investigation of the case found that our client could not be guilty of the crime because the prosecutor’s case did not meet the elements of the alleged crime, the prosecutor agreed to dismiss the case.
Jim Wells County.
Dismissal of Failure to Identify/Fugitive Intent to Give False Information.
After our investigation of the case found that our client could not be guilty of the crime because the prosecutor’s case did not meet the elements of the alleged crime, the prosecutor agreed to dismiss the case.
Jim Wells County.
Dismissal of Felony Falsification of Drug Test/Falsification Device.
After our investigation of the case, by reviewing the arrest report, evidence inventory report, and both dash camera and body camera video, evidenced serious issues regarding the arresting officer’s 4th Amendment violations of our client’s rights, the prosecutor agreed to dismiss the case.
Jim Wells County.
Dismissal of Possession of a Controlled Substance (Possession of substance in Penalty Group 3 >= 28 grams).
The case was dismissed after a Motion to Suppress All Evidence was filed and successfully argued to the Court. As a result, the evidence seized from the unconstitutional police traffic stop was thrown out by the Court.
Jim Wells County.
Dismissal of three (3) cases of Burglary of a Vehicle, Engaging in Criminal Activity and Evading Arrest.
The case was dismissed after a Motion to Dismiss For Denial of Speedy Indictment was filed and successfully argued to the Court. As a result, the district attorney’s office did not prosecute the cases
Jim Wells County;
Dismissal of Violation of the Clean Air Act. After our investigation of the case found that our client could not be guilty of the crime because the prosecutor’s case did not meet the elements of the alleged crime, yhe prosecutor agreed to dismiss the case.
Jim Wells County.
Dismissal of Failure to Identify.
After our investigation of the case found that our client could not be guilty of the crime because the prosecutor’s case did not meet the elements of the alleged crime, the prosecutor agreed to dismiss the case.
Jim Wells County;
Dismissal of Felony Assault Causing Bodily Injury/House Member 2 or more times within 12 Months.
This case was dismissed after a Motion to Dismiss for Denial of Speedy Indictment and Motion to Remove All Pre-trial Conditions was filed and successfully argued to the Court. The district attorney’s office then moved to present the case to a Nueces County Grand Jury for Indictment. After our long and arduous investigation of this voluminous case, which included reviewing the arrest report and other police documents, a multitude of medical records and affidavits, among other evidence, in our relentless and diligent effort to defend our client, a 204 page binder was created. The several-inch thick binder included our counter arguments, photographs, medical records, excerpts from a deposition and excerpts from two prior court hearings, among other exculpatory evidence, and was presented to the grand jury to review and consider our client’s innocence. After due and diligent consideration of our extensive defense binder and the district attorney’s evidence and argument, the grand jury sided with our client and refused to indict him. The grand jury issued a “No Bill”.
Nueces County.
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