Case Results

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

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.