Texas Child Custody Law
<h2> <center> State of Texas v. Anthony Clay Johnson </h2> <center>
Amarillo, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child. Digested by: <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Anthony Clay Johnson II was charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child. The victim was his cousin. The abus... More...
$ (02-09-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Isaiah Joshua Lee Houston </h2> </center>
Lubbock, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with car jacking. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Isaiah Joshua Lee Houston, 26, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, carjacking that occurred next to the federal and county courthouses in downtown Lubbock, Texas. Houston ap... More...
$ (06-05-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Luke Ethan Rogers </h2> </center>
Amarillo, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with possession of child pornography. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Luke Ethan Rogers charged with one count of ‘receipt and distribution of child pornography’ and a count of ‘possession of child pornography invo... More...
$ (06-04-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> State of Texas v. Bernardo Gomez </h2> </center>
El Paso, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual abuse of a child. By Kent Morlan Bernardo Gomez accused of sexually abusing a minor. In March 2020, a victim, who was 11 at the time, told their mother that Gomez had sexually abused them over multiple years, from when the victim was in kindergarten and continuing through fifth grade.... More...
$ (05-06-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Avis Delynn Jones </h2> </center>
Marshall, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and felony possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. By Kent Morlan On March 17, 2023, a search warrant was executed at Avis Delyn Jones’ University Avenue residence in Marshall resulting in the discovery of 440.7 grams of methamphetamine co... More...
$ (05-06-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Michael Seery and Ricardo Obando, Jr. </h2> </center>
Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Murder-For-Hire. By Kent Morlan Michael Seery hired Ricardo Obando to kill a man he believed had an affair with Seery’s wife while Seery was in prison. Cell phone evidence demonstrated how Obando conducted extensive surveillance and a failed attempt on the victim before finally executing the plot. Obando sh... More...
$ (05-05-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Isela Mendez </h2> </center>
Sherman, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to manufacture and distribute fentanyl. Isela Mendez, 45, was identified during an investigation involving the influx of counterfeit oxycodone, and other prescription pills, in the Eastern District of Texas and surrounding areas. It was determined that Mendez worked with others to distribute tens of thous... More...
$ (04-15-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Eric Barclay </h2> </center>
Corpus Christi, Texas criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled drugs. On July 25, 2024, Christopher Seabrook drove a silver Chrysler to the Javier Vega Jr. BP checkpoint near Sarita. Eric Barclay, age 34, was the passenger. At the initial inspection, Seabrook fled and led law enforcement on a chase reaching speeds up to 125 miles per... More...
$ (04-15-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Marvin Alexander Portillo </h2> </center>
Beaumont, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl. in June of 2023, Marvin Alexander Portillo, 29, was identified during a drug trafficking investigation involving the distribution of fentanyl-laced pills in the Eastern District of Texas. Portillo admitted to being involved in a conspiracy responsible for dis... More...
$ (04-03-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Cyrus Kourosh Boujabadi </h2> </center>
Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of multiple narcotics. Cyrus Boujabadi onspired with others to distribute MDMA, meth, cocaine, marijuana, psilocybin and DMT. As part of the conspiracy, he coordinated drug transactions using a messaging application, directed others to deliver controlled substances and accepted payment in cash and electr... More...
$ (04-03-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> Sharif Ahmad Jasmine v. The State of Texas </h2> </center>
McKinney, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual abuse of a child. The was charged with the continuous sexual abuse of a child, J.W. J.W.’s mother Kirsten met appellant in 2015 when she and J.W. lived in Missouri. Kirsten and appellant started dating and eventually had a son together. In 2019, –2– when J.W. was twelve years’ old, Kirsten and her... More...
$ (04-05-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Camilo Reyes Castillo </h2> </center>
Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with production of child pornography. Camilo Reyes Castillo, 47, was producing and trading child sexual abuse material online. DPS investigated Castillo and his online presence and confirmed that he was involved in producing and sharing sexually explicit material involving young boys. In June 2025, DPS executed a search ... More...
$ (04-05-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> State of Texas v. Edwin Fernando Perez </h2> </center>
El Paso, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual assault of a young girl. Edwin Fernando Perez, 54, was charged with Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child The testimony at trial reflected that, in 2022, the victim reported to a school counselor that she had been assaulted by the Defendant several years earlier at a sleepover at his house. At the time of th... More...
$ (11-17-2025 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Johnny Quoc Tran </h2> </center>
Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl and meth. an investigation began in March 2019 when authorities identified a Houston-based drug trafficking organization with additional operations in Dallas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. Authorities determined Tran led the organization and operated a pill press lab... More...
$ (03-15-2026 - TX)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Rodolfo Daniel De Hoyos aka “Rufles” </h2> </center>
Del Rio, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens causing serious bodily injury and placing lives in danger. Rodolfo Daniel De Hoyos a/k/a "Rufles<" was arrested on Nov. 22, 2021, in Kinney County. A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper observed three passengers in De Hoyos’s vehicle, each wearing dirty clothing, hiking boo... More...
$ (03-15-2026 - TX)United States of America v. Angel Arquimedez Coto-Martinez
Houston, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal reentry after deportation. Angel Arquimedez Coto-Martinez has multiple previous convictions for illegal reentry. Authorities first removed him in July 2005 and again in December 2010, July 2016, and twice more in 2022. He returned illegally after each removal. Most recently, he was ordered removed Feb. ... More...
$ (03-02-2026 - TX)United States of America v. Celso Rivas-Gonzalez
Del Rio, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal re-entry into the United States by a previously removed alien. In 2024, Rivas-Gonzalez was convicted of both illegal re-entry and indecency with a child. Prior to that, in 2021, he was convicted of a harassment felony that had been reduced from one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child. Rivas-Gonzalez... More...
$ (02-18-2026 - TX)State of Texas v. Andrew Wayne Roark
Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the charged with child abuse. Andrew Wayne Roark, 48, for his 2000 injury to a child conviction after an extensive and careful re-evaluation of the evidence by the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office’s Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU). Changes in science regarding the mechanism of the injury, which the Court of Criminal Appeals opined w... More...
$ (11-18-2025 - TX)United States of America v. Ivan Hernandez-Ortiz
Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegaly reentry. Ivan Hernandez-Ortiz, 36, residing in Dallas, Texas, illegally entered the United States approximately five times, was granted voluntary return on three occasions, and was formally removed twice. Previously, he was federally prosecuted for illegal reentry into the United States in the Southern Distr... More...
$ (02-25-2026 - TX)United States of America v. Terry Ardoin, et al.
San Antonio, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distributing marijuana. An 18-count superseding indictment has been unsealed charging 20 alleged members and associates of a violent Houston-based street gang for their purported roles in a racketeering conspiracy (RICO) involving murder, attempted murder, armed robbery, drug trafficking and firearms offenses. La... More...
$ (02-15-2026 - TX)United States of America v. Juan Antonio Flores
Del Rio, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens causing serious bodily injury and placing lives in jeopardy. Juan Antonio Flores, 36, coordinated smuggling trips for an alien smuggling organization (ASO), making $4,000 per alien smuggled from Mexico to San Antonio. The aliens were often transported to Austin, where co-conspirato... More...
$ (02-15-2026 - TX)United States of America v. Marisa Witkop
Fort Worth, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of children. Marisa Witkop, age 21, produced four videos of a nine-year-old child, some of which she distributed using a social media application. The U.S. Secret Service and Mansfield Police Department handled the investigation. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern Dist... More...
$ (02-15-2026 - TX)State of Texas v. Adrian Gonzales
Corpus Christi, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with 29 counts of child endangerment. Adrian Gonzales was accused of failing to act when he arrived at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde where a shooter killed 19 children and two teachers.... More...
$ (01-22-2026 - TX)<H2> Wonderful Hill v. Dollar Tree Stores, Inc.
Houston, Texas, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a premises liability theory seeking $250,000 in damages. This case was filed in the 56th District Court, Galveston County, Texas, 24-CV-0114 and was removed to federal court by the Defendant. Googe A.I.: AI Mode All News Images Videos Shopping Short videos More Tools These are results for Texas Premises... More...
$ (05-06-2025 - TX)<H2> United States of America v. Clayton Willis Caddell and Robert Alfonso Cazarin
Sherman, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with trafficking methamphetamine. Clayton Willis Caddell, 48, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and was sentenced to 181 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Sean D. Jordan on January 9, 2026. Robert Alfonso Cazarin, 37, pleaded guilty to co... More...
$ (01-13-2026 - TX)<H2> United States of America v. Jose de Jesus Galicia-Castillo
Corpus Christi, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with reentry of deported alien. Jose de Jesus Galicia-Castillo, age 36, was arrested for being in the United States illegally for the third time. He was first removed in 2008 and returned illegally on at least two other occasions. Most recently, authorities discovered him July 25, 2025, near Falfurrias with no au... More...
$ (01-14-2026 - TX)State of Oklahoma v. Tyrese Riley
El Paso, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represents the defendant charged with drunk driving for having a blood alcohol level of 0.12 when he crashed into another vehicle on I-10 while driving drunk with two kids in the car. It was found that Riley had nine outstanding traffic warrants. Riley was taken to the El Paso County Downtown Jail, where he was booked and charged with DWI with a chil... More...
$ (01-06-2026 - TX)<H2> State of Texas v. Andrew Wayne Roark
Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant on charged and convicted of "Shaken Babby Syndome. e Dallas County Criminal District Attorney’s Office announces the exoneration of Andrew Wayne Roark, 48, for his 2000 injury to a child conviction after an extensive and careful re- evaluation of the evidence by the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office’s Conviction In... More...
$ (11-18-2025 - TX)<H2> United States of America v. Ivan Alexys Oseguera Vara
Laredo, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with smuggling a stolen weapon and other firearms out of the country. On June 3, Ivan Alexys Oseguera Vara, age 21, of San Antonio, Texas, drove a gray Honda Civic to the Colombia Solidarity International Bridge. He claimed to not have any firearms, ammunition or large amounts cash and was just traveling from his San Anton... More...
$ (12-22-2025 - TX)<H2> United States of America v. Brice Andrew Flickinger
Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with coercion and enticement of a minor. On July 9, 2021, the victim’s mother reported her daughter missing. Shortly thereafter, authorities conducted a traffic stop after observing a vehicle with two men, including Brice Flickinger Flickinger as passenger, drop the minor victim off near her home. A search resulted in t... More...
$ (12-15-2025 - TX)<H2> United States of America v. Devon Shermaine Rhodes
Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with r possessing with the intent to distribute bulk crystal methamphetamine. On Nov. 8, 2022, authorities conducted surveillance at a local fast-food establishment where they observed a drug transaction involving Devon Shermaine Rhodes. He had paid more than $10,000 in cash for approximately five kilograms of crystal met... More...
$ (12-15-2025 - TX)<H2> United States of America v. Victor Torres
Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of production of child pornography. In 2023, Victor Torres paid two different 13-to-14-year-old children to produce sexually explicit material to send to him online. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) discovered Torres’s criminal activity when they received a CyberTip from an online money exchange pl... More...
$ (12-15-2025 - TX)<H2> United States of America v. Skyler Shoemaker
Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography. Skyler Shoemaker, age 34, of Colorado City, Texas, used Facebook Messenger to send a sexually explicit video of a four- to six-year-old child to his girlfriend, Angel Bradford. Additionally, information presented at the sentencing hearing indicated that Shoemaker used various platfo... More...
$ (12-15-2025 - TX)State of Texas v. John Doe
Houston, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charge with eluding police officers after it was found that he had an open warrant for his arrest. John Do sped away rather than be taken into custody. He crashed his vehicle and tried to run away on foot and started shooting at the officers.... More...
$ (12-05-2025 - TX)State of Texas v. Zachary Suarez
Waco, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child after a 12-year-old girl receiving treatment at a hospital learned she was pregnant.<br> <br> Zachary Suarez, age 33, impregnated a 12-year-old girl.<br> <br> Detectives obtained buccal swabs from the girl and the infant which showed that Suarez was the father of the child.... More...
$0 (11-23-2025 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. Eduardo Aguilar </h1></h1>
Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with TikTok Post Soliciting Others to Murder ICE Agents.<br> <br> 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...
$0 (10-16-2025 - TX)<h1> United States of America v. </h1></h1>
Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Soliciting Others to Murder ICE Agents<br> <br> 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. <br> <br> <br> According to court records, Eduardo Agu... More...
$0 (10-16-2025 - TX)<H2> 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.<br> <br> "Whether the Government has breached a plea agreement is a<br> question of law that this Court reviews de novo,†so long as the issue was<br> preserved, as it was here. United States v. Purser, 747 F.3d 284, 290 (5th Cir.<br> 2014); United States v. Malmqu... More...
$0 (11-03-2025 - TX)State of Texas v. Brian Pineda Ayala and Caceres Leiva
Dallas, Texas, criminal defense lawyers representing the Defendants charged capital murder.<br> <br> 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...
$0 (11-04-2025 - TX)Texas Department of Family and Protective Services v, D.V.
Austin, Texas, family law lawyer represent Defendant in a parental termination action.<br> <br> 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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