The first setting dismissal in Harris County, Texas
Posted By Herman Martinez on Aug 9, 2010 6:28pm PDT
Today, I was fortunate to defend a case where the police report mirrored what my client said to me in our first interview. I must admit that this is not typical. What happens more often is that the police report is an embellishment of the events and puts my client in the worst possible light. Thus, my client is the one that gets charged with the crime. In the case that I handled today, the charges should not have been presented to the Harris District Attorney's Office and the prosecutor reviewing the case should not have accepted the charges despite the case being presented to them by the police officer. While I was able rectify the mistakes made by the police officer and the prosecutor it came to a lot of expense to my client. The client was fortunate to have a reasonable prosecutor be able to review the police report and make the correct the decision to dismiss the case without further investigation.
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