Category Archives: InDepth Articles
Five Things To Know About a Texas Search Warrant Before You’re Served
Key takeaways: In any law enforcement investigation, the officers, deputies, or agents must build a case and this usually requires search warrants to seize evidence for use by the prosecution. The search warrant must be supported by a sworn affidavit signed by law enforcement that explains there is probable cause to invade your privacy and…
What Happens if Police Lie or Make Mistakes in a Search Warrant?
From a criminal defense lawyer’s perspective, every single person in this country should know about search warrants. It’s important to understand things aren’t the same in the real world as they are in books or on TV. Hunches are not enough in real life to allow law enforcement to search anyone or anything. Key insights:…
Drug Dealing Arrest in Texas: Do You Have a Defense?
Key Takeaways: Drug dealing charges in Texas for manufacturing or distributing of controlled substances come with potentially serious felony punishments under the Texas Controlled Substances Act (Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 481). As of September 2025, use of social media platforms in drug dealing can enhance punishment upon conviction substantially because of a recent…
Drug Manufacture or Delivery in Texas: Things You Need to Know
There are some things, either grown or man-made, that are considered illegal under either state or federal law. In legal lingo, they are called “controlled substances.” Just having them in your possession can get you arrested. However, if you go the next step and try to make money with them, either in the manufacture of…
Defenses for Solicitation of Prostitution Felony Charges
Arrested for Buying Sex in Texas: Serious Consequences In Texas, anyone arrested for buying sex – or trying to buy sex even if there’s no actual payment or no sex involved – faces a felony conviction with serious time behind bars. Texas was the first state in the nation to boost the crime from a…
Solicitation of Prostitution Arrests in Texas: Targeting the Johns
Being arrested for buying sex – or trying to – in Texas, means sex buyers now face felony charges with serious time behind bars. The business of selling sex to willing buyers has been around for a very, very, very long time. Literally thousands of years: historians can date prostitution back to 2400 B.C., where…
Top 10 Things to Know If You Are Being Investigated by Federal Agents: Lawyer’s Recommendations
No arrest, no contact by law enforcement? Think you’re being watched? From a criminal defense perspective, it’s not about paranoia; it’s being prepared. The following article dovetails with my 13 minute YouTube video, “Federal Investigations: Top 10 Do’s and Don’t List,” where I discuss the following, going into more detail on things like how detention…
The Job of the U.S. Marshal: Arrest & Detention on Federal Matters in Texas
There are times when the U.S. Marshals Service will not share any information with loved ones after an initial arrest here in Texas. When a sealed warrant or sealed indictment is involved, all the family will know is their loved one has been arrested. That’s it. For more detail, read What You Don’t Know Can…
The Mandatory Federal Detention Provisions in the Laken Riley Act
Earlier this year, the Laken Riley Act became federal law. Many are concerned or confused about this new federal legislation. Specifically, the Act’s mandatory federal detention provisions. What about undocumented persons? Visa holders? DACA people? Who can be detained if charged with theft or a violent act? Consider the following: 1. The 2025 Laken Riley…
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: Sealed Indictments and Sealed Arrest Warrants in Federal Criminal Cases
Here’s a terrifying reality that some of my clients and their loved ones have to face: it is entirely legal for the federal government to keep secret both arrest warrants and grand jury indictments (as well as their entire investigation process leading up to them). Result? The accused may have no clue they are in…
