Texas Jury Verdicts, Settlements and Court Decisions
 

United States of America v. Eduardo Aguilar

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with TikTok Post Soliciting Others to Murder ICE Agents.

According to court records, Eduardo Aguilar, residing in Dallas, Texas, was charged by federal complaint for transmitting in interstate or foreign commerce a communication containing a threat, resulting from his October 9 post on TikTok in Spanish, as pictured ... More...
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State of Texas v. Esperanza Castillo

Amarillo, Texas, criminal defense lawyer will represent the Defendant charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon/family violence.

Esperanza Castillo is accused of shooting a man during a fight.... More...
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State of Texas v. Nathaniel Johnson

Fort Worth, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with driving more than 100 mph.

Worth police patrol officer Nathaniel Johnson was traveling over 100 mph on his motorcycle when a Keller police officer tried to pull him over.... More...
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State of Texas v. Deyonte Rice

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer will represent the Defendant charged with capital murder.

Deyonte Rice, age 19, is accused for fatally shooting Brandon Fuller age 19 in south Dallas. ... More...
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State of Texas v. Octavio Garcia Cruz

Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer will represent the Defendant charged with murder.

Octavio Garcia Cruz, 48, is charged with murder in the 184th Criminal District Court.

The victim was Angel Chavira, 35.... More...
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State of Texas v. Wayne Mercado III

San Antonio, Texas criminal defense lawyer will represent the Defendant charged with a string of violent crimes.

Wayne Mercado III, age 25, is accused for brutally beating and shooting outside a convenience store.... More...
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State of Texas v. Rafael Sanchez

El Paso, Texas, criminal defense lawyer will represent the Defendant charged with murder.

Rafael Sanchez, 40, is accused killing 51-year-old Marisela Veliz on July 26, 2022.


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Kaukab Khan v. Crossover Market, LLC; Trilogy, Inc.

El Paso, Texas pro se Plaintiff without a lawyer field a civil rights claimed against the Defendants.

laintiff-Appellant Kaukab Khan, an Indian national, sued Defendant-Appellee Crossover Market, a staffing firm which recruits remote workers on behalf of other companies, including Defendant-Appellee Trilogy. In April 2025, Khan applied for a remote job as a research analyst at Trilogy. Ac... More...
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United States of America v. Fernanda Itzel Rivas

El Paso, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug possession with intent to distribute.

n July 24, 2024, Rivas was arrested at the Bridge of the Americas port of entry in El Paso, Texas. Rivas had over seven kilograms of cocaine in her car at the time of her arrest. Rivas also had her five-year-old son and six-month-old daughter in the car. Rivas was char... More...
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Kelli Smith v. United States Parcel Service, Inc.

Houston, Texas, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on job discrimination theories.

Kelli Smith sued her former employer, United Parcel Service, Incorporated (UPS), under the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (TCHRA) alleging race, gender, and disability discrimination, retaliation, and a hostile work environment.

Under McDonnell Douglas, a plaintiff bear... More...
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Myisha Niter, et al. v. Marian Brown, et al.

Dallas, Texas personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a deliberate indifference civil rights violation theory.

Christopher Darnell Williams died by suicide while detained in Dallas County Jail. His family sued the Texas Department of Public Safety, (“TDPS”), Dallas County, Sheriff Marian Brown, and unknown jail employees. Plaintiff-Appellants brought claims under... More...
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The State of Texas v. Jeremiah Navarro

New Braunfels, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with resisting arrest.

On April 25, 2014, three 911 hang-up calls were received from an upholstery business, and officers were dispatched to the location.4 When Officer Brian Turner arrived, he found the Defendant's mother outside. Her hair, neck, chest, arms, and hands were covered in transmission fluid.
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United States of America v.

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Soliciting Others to Murder ICE Agents

An illegal alien from Mexico was arrested Tuesday for soliciting others to kill ICE agents in a TikTok post on October 9, 2025, announced Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Nancy E. Larson.


According to court records, Eduardo Agu... More...
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United States of America v. Roberto Cabrera Ruiz

Del Rio, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Reentry Of Deported Aliens.... More...    $0 (10-18-2025 - TX)

United States of America v. Otto Melvin Ramirez

Del Rio, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Illegal Re-entry into the United States... More...    $0 (11-03-2025 - TX)

United States of America v. Cody Lee Spencer

Austin, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with: Possession with Intent to Distribute a Substance.

“Whether the Government has breached a plea agreement is a
question of law that this Court reviews de novo,” so long as the issue was
preserved, as it was here. United States v. Purser, 747 F.3d 284, 290 (5th Cir.
2014); United States v. Malmquis... More...
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United States of America v. Diego Gregorio Felicia-Herndandez

San Antonio, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Illegal Re-entry into the United States
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United States of America v. Alex Ahmed Kassem

Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted possession with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of
heroin, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 (prohibiting attempt and conspiracy)
and 841(a)(1) (prohibiting possession with intent to distribute), (b)(1)(a)
(setting penalty); and attempted money laundering, in violation of 18 U.S.C. No. 24-... More...
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United States of America v. Steven Lee Smith

Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.... More...    $0 (11-03-2025 - TX)

United States of America v. Daniel Carlos-Ramos

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegally reentering the United States after deportation.

Violation of f 8 U.S.C. § 1326 carries a maximum sentence of two years of imprisonment and one year of supervised release. ... More...
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United States of America v. Darell Montrell Trotter

Beaumont, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing fentanyl.

Darell Montrell Trotter pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute
fentanyl pursuant to a plea agreement. Although Trotter’s indictment
alleged that his conduct caused the death of an individual, DS, the plea
agreement did not include this allegation. The agreement did, how... More...
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Everett De'Andre Arnold, et al. v. Barbers Hill Independent School District, et al.

Houston, Texas personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on civil rights violation theories.

BHISD maintains a Student Code of Conduct, setting stand-
ards for behavior and discipline within the district. Hair-length restrictions
have long existed in the Student Code of Conduct, limiting the ways male
students could wear their hair. Halfway through the 2019–2020 scho... More...
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United States of America ex rel. Diedra Gentry v. Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Pearland, L.L.C.

Houston, Texas commercial litigation lawyers represented the parties in a qui tam whistleblower case.... More...    $0 (11-03-2025 - TX)

State of Texas v. Elijah Turner Reyes

El Paso, Texas, man charged with murder.

Elijah Turner Reyes, 24, from El Paso, has been wanted by the El Paso Police Department since May 22, 2025, for murder. Additionally, on June 16, 2025, warrants were issued out of El Paso Co. for his arrest for failing to appear in court for prior charges related to burglary of habitation, possession of a controlled substance and assaulting a pregn... More...
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State of Texas v. Yordanis Cobos-Martinez

Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder.

Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, 37, is accused of slicing his manager's head off in front of his family and kicking it "like a soccer ball." Chandra Nagamallaiah, a manager of a Downtown Suites motel in Dallas, was killed at the motel. ... More...
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State of Texas v. Michael Richardson and Gayle Bell

Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyers representing the Defendants charged with abuse of corpses.

Michael Richardson, 72, and Gayle Bell, 63, — the co-owners of Richardson Mortuary were charged with abuse of a corpse. More than 100 bodies, some cremated and some awaiting embalmment were found on the property.... More...
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State of Texas v. Brian Pineda Ayala and Caceres Leiva

Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyers representing the Defendants charged capital murder.

n Tuesday, Brian Pineda Ayala, 23, and Jimy Caceres Leiva, 28, were taken into custody in Houston by the Texas Department of Public Safety. ... More...
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Texas Department of Family and Protective Services v, D.V.

Austin, Texas, family law lawyer represent Defendant in a parental termination action.

As future-Chief Justice Pope explained for the Court nearly half a century ago, for example, "[a]ctions which break the ties between a parent and child can never be justified without the most solid and substantial reasons," and so "in an action which permanently sunders those ties," the "proceedings [sh... More...
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United States of America v. James Martin Shearer

San Antonio, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted coercion and enticement of a minor.... More...    $0 (10-23-2025 - TX)

United States of America v. Randy Campos

Del Rio, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substance (drugs).... More...    $0 (10-23-2025 - TX)

Strategy and Execution, Inc. v. Black Rifle Coffee Company, L.L.C.

San Antonio, Texas, commercial litigation lawyers represented the parties in a breach of contract dispute.

Plaintiff Strategy and Execution, Inc. sued Defendant-Appellee Black Rifle Coffee Company, L.L.C. for breach of a Consulting Agreement, claiming it is owed royalties for products manufactured after the Agreement’s termination.

SEI “is a consumer product goods consultant.... More...
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United States of America v. Luis Dominquez-Murillo

Austin, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal reentry.... More...    $0 (10-23-2025 - TX)

United States of America v. Nathan Bermea

Midland, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon.... More...    $0 (10-24-2025 - TX)

United States of America v. Francisco Javier Pineda

Beaumont, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute (and to possess with intent to distribute) fentanyl, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug
trafficking crime.

Based on the evidence presented at trial, a reasonable jury could have
found beyond a reasonable doubt that the evidence established that (1) Pineda
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State of Texas v. Eric J. Gipson, Sr.

Beaumont, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with rape.

In the early morning hours of Sept. 26, 2024, a female victim was walking near a gas station in Beaumont. A male suspect — now identified as Gipson — approached the victim from behind and took her behind a nearby church. Gipson forced the woman to remove her clothing and held a knife to her throat as... More...
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State of Texas v. Lamond Hines and Murry Gibbs

Beaumont, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder.

Lamond Hines, age 46, and Murry Gibbs, age 31, accused for killing Joseph Calvin Bihm, Jr., 34, of Beaumont.

Surveillance video showed a suspect getting out of a white SUV and approaching the victim's pickup as it traveled southbound on Orange Avenue, according to the affidavit. A second susp... More...
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State of Texas v. Christopher Weiss

Waco, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with capital murder of a child under ten years old.... More...    $0 (10-22-2025 - TX)

State of Texas v. Juan Felix Jimenez

Jourdanton, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bail jumping and failure to appear in a felony case.... More...    $0 (10-22-2025 - TX)

The State of Texas v. Larry Dean Cole

Conroe, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child.... More...    $0 (10-24-2025 - TX)

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