Celebrating 20 Years of Criminal Defense in Sherman, TX (Part Two)

I joined Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers association and attended every seminar I could, driving to Tyler, Corpus Christi, Huntsville for Criminal Trial College and even Laredo for a seminar. I eagerly wanted to learn how to protect my clients and learned the tools of the trade as fast as I could.  This also helped me become board certified in the shortest time possible in 2010, with five years experience.  I did a lot of administrative license review hearings for DWIs and it was easier to win them back then.  There was a form on which I just had to request the arresting officer and breath tech supervisor, the latter who virtually never showed up for hearings because there is only one or two in the region and they handle the trials as well.  I was proud to save a lot of drivers licenses.  Texas eventually changed the law and we now have to subpoena the arresting officer and have to meet a virtually insurmountable burden to force the breath tech supervisor to appear beyond an affidavit.  But, we have been winning close to half of the cases lately.

I tried a lot of driving while intoxicated cases early on, winning some and losing some but always learning and improving.  I attended the seminar to be both a field sobriety test practitioner, like the officers do at roadside, and also several deep dives in the Intoxylizer 5000 machine that was outdated.