Before I was a defense attorney, I was a street cop. A detective. A prosecutor.

I spent nearly twenty years inside the criminal justice system before I ever stood beside an accused person as his lawyer. I worked everything from property crimes to homicides. I ran undercover narcotics operations. I investigated gangs. I worked major crime scenes. I wrote search warrants, interviewed witnesses and suspects, made arrests, and testified in court. I’ve kicked in doors. I’ve sat across from killers. I’ve stood beside people at the worst moments of their lives.

Later, I became a prosecutor and handled criminal cases from the other side of the courtroom.

I know how criminal cases are built because I used to build them. I know how police officers investigate cases because I spent sixteen years carrying a badge. I know how prosecutors evaluate evidence because I have sat in their chair. And I know that the government can get things wrong.

Today, my practice includes serious criminal cases in both state and federal court. I represent people accused of drug trafficking and conspiracy, firearms offenses, violent crimes, organized criminal activity, white-collar offenses, and other serious felonies. I also represent children accused of crimes in the juvenile justice system.

My federal practice has taken me into courtrooms across Texas. I am admitted to practice in the Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. I serve on the Criminal Justice Act panels for the Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas, where federal judges appoint me to represent people who cannot afford counsel in serious federal prosecutions.

I have represented defendants in large, multi-defendant federal conspiracies and complex federal investigations involving narcotics, firearms, trafficking, and national security allegations. I have handled federal trials and investigations in which the consequences are measured not in months, but years.

I have spent much of my adult life in courtrooms. I have tried criminal cases as a prosecutor and as a defense attorney, including serious felony and federal cases. I believe trials are ultimately about questions, not theatrics. Beneath thousands of pages of discovery, hours of recordings, expert reports, witnesses, exhibits, and legal arguments, there are usually a handful of questions that matter. My job is to find them.

My clients come to me during some of the most frightening days of their lives. Some are innocent. Some have made terrible mistakes. Some are accused of things that will follow them forever. Some are children. Some are facing the federal government and wondering whether they will ever come home.

Every one of them is still a human being.

This firm is built for people the system forgot. People facing serious charges. People who are scared. People who have made mistakes and want a shot at rebuilding their lives. People who need somebody willing to stand beside them when standing beside them is difficult.

I don't care where you come from or what you're charged with.

You're worth the fight.

Contact me here.