Yoakum, TX Criminal Defense Law Firms & Lawyers

You can sue them civilly, but the only way to press charges is stay on the police and DA to go after these men. [ThLF-Email-Sig_final] This email contains PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended only for the use of the recipient named above. The information may be protected by state and federal laws, including, without limitation, the provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), which prohibit unauthorized disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply email at the address provided above and delete this message. Thank you.

This is serious enough that you may want to consider selling what you can to get the money to hire an attorney. There will be problems for the prosecution if there was no search warrant based on probable cause for the search of your property.

When a charge is filed, the prosecutor receiving the information from the officer makes a charging decision based on what that prosecutor knows with regard to the law and the facts. Prosecutors do not know everything and can make mistakes or miss information. Some times cases are overcharged (should be lesser offenses) but more often they are undercharged (could be higher level charges). So, if the charge was not correct or there is another charge that would fit the facts better, then when the case is being prosecuted the prosecutor can refile the charge (and often threatens to do so if the defendant is refusing to plea bargain with the prosecutor or rejects what the prosecutor believes is a fair offer.)