One Charge Shouldn't Cost You Everything. Get a Former Prosecutor on Your Side.

A DWI arrest starts a clock most people do not know is running. You have roughly two weeks to protect your license before the case even reaches a courtroom. We step in early, question the stop and the testing, and work to keep a first, second, or repeat charge from defining your record.

Most assault cases turn on whose version the State decided to believe. We rebuild the parts of the story the police report skips, including self-defense, mutual conflict, and allegations that grew in the retelling.

Texas treats THC oil and concentrates as a Penalty Group 2 controlled substance, which is why a single cartridge can be filed as a felony while the same amount of marijuana flower would not. We press on how the substance was weighed and whether the search that found it was legal.

Possession, delivery, and manufacturing charges usually rest on two things: a search and a lab result. Both can be challenged. We look at whether officers had the right to search and whether the testing holds up.

An accusation here can cost you your home, your firearms, and contact with your own children before anything is proven. As a former family-violence prosecutor, Austin knows how these files are built, and he handles affidavits of non-prosecution and protective-order defense.

Once a DWI involves a serious injury or a death, it becomes one of the most serious felonies the State prosecutes. These cases demand a slow, evidence-first defense, and that is how we build them.

A dismissal does not wipe the arrest off your record on its own. We handle the expunction and nondisclosure process so background checks come back clean, and we tell you the exact date you become eligible.

A charge against a minor moves through a separate juvenile system with its own rules and its own long-term consequences for school and financial aid. We work with parents, not around them, and fight to keep the case in the most favorable forum.

Almost every criminal case in San Antonio runs through the same downtown system, and knowing that system is half the work.

After an arrest by San Antonio police, the Bexar County Sheriff, or state troopers, the case first reaches the Central Magistrate Office, where bond and the first court date are set. Class A and Class B misdemeanors, such as a first or second DWI, simple assault, and smaller drug charges, are filed in the Bexar County courts at law. Felonies go to the criminal district courts at the Cadena-Reeves Justice Center on Dolorosa Street. Only fine-only Class C matters stay in the municipal courts of the individual cities.

Austin charged these cases from the other side of that same courthouse. He knows the prosecutors, the judges, and the way each court tends to handle bond, pretrial motions, and plea negotiations. That is not something an out-of-town firm can offer.