Our Notable Cases

CAPITAL MURDER AND AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON

Client charged with capital murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for participating in a drive by shooting that left one child injured and another child dead. Case went to trial as one of the first cases of this level to be tried during the COVID-19 era. After a week long jury trial, the jury found the client NOT GUILTY of capital murder. The case ended in a plea agreement on lesser charges the defendant was found guilty of.

FAILURE TO REGISTER SEX OFFENDER/ LIFETIME REGISTRATION

Case went to a grand jury hearing and after Nelson Knight presented a grand jury packet of information to the grand jury, the case was no-billed and the charges will not be prosecuted further.

IMPERSONATING A POLICE OFFICER

Client charged with Impersonating a Police Officer. Attorney Knight prepared a packet of evidence and information for the grand jury to review as well as prepared his client to testify before the grand jury. Client’s case was no-billed by the grand jury and he will face no further charges.

INDECENCY WITH A CHILD BY CONTACT Collin County - case reduced to lesser charge of Injury to a Child with NO sex offender registration at all.

CAPITAL MURDER Dallas - death during alleged robbery reduced to lesser offenses of Manslaughter and Theft. Capital murder charge was dismissed.

CAPITAL MURDER Dallas - death of child reduced to lesser offense of Injury to a Child by Omission. Capital murder charge was dismissed.

AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Client accused of running over his ex-wife with his car. I presented a grand jury packet and prepared my client to testify in his own defense and the grand jury returned a no-bill. Client is free of any charges.

ASSAULT FAMILY VIOLENCE Client was charged with assault family violence impeding breathing or circulation enhance, a 2nd degree felony. After I prepared a grand jury packet telling his side of the story to the grand jury, the grand jury returned a no-bill on the case. He walks away free of charges.

AGGRAVATED SEXUAL ASSAULT OF A CHILD Dallas County - case dismissed and reduced to lesser charge of Injury to a Child with NO sex offender registration.

CAPITAL MURDER Client charged with killing two people outside a nightclub in Downtown Dallas. The case was featured on "The First 48". After repeated trial settings and the D.A. bluffing that their case was better than it was, on the final trial setting, I forced a dismissal out of the D.A., and my client went home with no conviction.

CAPITAL MURDER Client charged with capital murder (automatic life in prison) in alleged robbery of drug house that resulted in one death. I was hired after the client had decided he was not happy with the court-appointed attorney. After lengthy and repeated negotiations with the state as well as preparations for trial, I was able to convince the D.A. to reindict the case as a manslaughter and dismiss the capital murder . My client agreed to a plea bargain of 5 years deferred probation and is now back home with his family.

SEXUAL ASSAULT

No-billed by grand jury.

Client charged with sexual assault and case referred to the Dallas County grand jury. Mr. Knight prepared a grand jury packet with evidence in his client's favor and prepared his client to testify before the grand jury. After the grand jury hearing, the grand jury returned a no-bill, thus releasing Mr. Knight's client from these charges.

INJURY TO A CHILD

No-billed by grand jury.

Client charged with and arrested for injury to a child and case sent to the Dallas County grand jury. Mr. Knight prepared a grand jury packet with evidence in his client's favor and prepared his client to testify before the grand jury. After the grand jury hearing, the grand jury returned a no-bill, thus releasing Mr. Knight's client from these charges.

AGGRAVATED SEXUAL ASSAULT OF A CHILD

Reduced to reckless injury to a child, no prison time

Client charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child. Client's parent's retained Mr. Knight and after many months of working on the case and persuading the District Attorney's Office of the weaknesses of their case, Mr. Knight secured a multi-level reduction in the charges to a simple state jail felony with no sex offender registration instead of a first degree felony with lifetime sex offender registration. Beyond that, Mr. Knight secured deferred probation for his client so that his client will not be convicted of any felony relating to these charges.

SEXUAL ASSAULT OF A CHILD My client, in this case, had consensual sex with a 16-year-old girl and was charged with sexual assault. With his criminal history, he was facing a minimum of 25 years to life in prison, but I was able to negotiate for him a deal in which the state agreed to reindict him for attempted injury to a child. His sentence was a misdemeanor with credit for his back time. He was able to leave jail after many months, but with no felony conviction, no probation and no sex offender registration.

CONTINUOUS SEXUAL ABUSE OF A CHILD My client was charged with this crime that carries a minimum of 25 years in prison with no parole as well as with indecency with a child. After 15 months of fighting the case and convincing the prosecutors that their case wasn't very strong, the prosecutors agreed to dismiss both of these charges and reindict my client with an injury to a child charge which would allow for probation and no sex offender registration. My client agreed to probation, got out of jail and does not have to register as a sex offender.

DWI Client charged with DWI. My client had a professional license that he would have lost with a DWI conviction. I was able to get his case dismissed with no danger to his license.

DWI Client charged with DWI. I got the case dismissed after negotiations with the prosecutors.

SEXUAL ASSAULT OF A CHILD Client charged with Sexual assault of his 4-year-old granddaughter. My client had no criminal history, denied any wrongdoing whatsoever, and was the sole provider for his family and his children's families. Despite the D.A. offering very lenient plea offers, we went to trial, and my client was found not guilty and walked out of jail with no conviction and no sex offender registration.

POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA My client was in possession of 54 lbs of marijuana in a car with two other guys. They were followed and arrested by the cops as they were delivering the drugs to another man. I convinced the jury he didn't have "possession" of the drugs as the term is defined in the penal code and he was found not guilty.

INTOXICATION MANSLAUGHTER

I was hired shortly after a major auto accident in which my client was intoxicated and accidentally ran over his best friend who had just called my client to come get him from the scene of an accident he had just been in. The highway on which the accident happened had major construction going on at the time and posed a danger to motorists on the road and when my client came up to the previous accident scene he was not able to stop in time and subsequently ran over and killed his best friend.

I prepared a presentation to the grand jury in Dallas detailing what happened and how devastated my client and the family of his friend are and the grand jury decided to no-bill the intoxication manslaughter charge (a second-degree felony carrying a maximum punishment of 20 years in prison) and instead charged my client with a misdemeanor DWI charge.

INTOXICATION MANSLAUGHTER

Client in Collin County charged with Intoxication Manslaughter and Intoxication Assault after causing a wreck and killing one person and injuring the other.

My client was driving a dump truck at 10:30 in the morning and was at a .301 blood alcohol level when he ran into the side of a small car that turned in front of his truck. After a guilty plea and punishment hearing before a Collin County jury, the jury returned with a punishment of probation with no prison time.

INDECENCY WITH A CHILD BY CONTACT Client charged with indecency with a child by contact. The case proceeded to grand jury and was no-billed by the grand jury due to Attorney Knight's grand jury packet explaining his client's side of the story. Client goes free with no further charges.

FELONY CHILD SNATCHING

Client charged with felony child snatching after taking a child from state custody and fleeing the state.

Resolved without any jail, felony conviction, or permanent criminal record.

CONTINUOUS SEXUAL ABUSE

Client charged with Continuous sexual abuse of a child and promoting sexual performance by a child under 14. Continuous abuse case carries a sentence of 25 years to life with no parole and the sexual performance case is 5 years to 99 years or life.

Client plead guilty and Nelson Knight got the continuous case reduced to a lesser charge and after an all day hearing before a judge, received a sentence of 10 years deferred adjudication probation. No prison time and no conviction.