Patrick McGuire

I prosecuted criminal cases for Dallas County, including family violence cases. I know how the State builds these files, which witnesses they lean on, and where the cases break. Now I use that knowledge on your side of the courtroom.

That perspective matters most in the cases the State treats as its strongest. Arson of a habitation, dismissed before trial. A second-degree felony arson, dismissed. Sexual assault of a child charges that ended in a dismissal in one case and a grand jury no-bill in another. In juvenile court, the State moved to certify my client as an adult on an aggravated sexual assault of a child charge. The certification was denied, and the case was dismissed.

When a case has to be tried, I try it. A first-degree fentanyl MAN/DEL case went to a jury, and the verdict on the MAN/DEL count was not guilty. An aggravated robbery client who was already on probation, and who picked up new offenses while on probation, received probation at trial. An assault on a public servant ended in probation after the State’s pretrial offer was prison.

I have also dismissed several Assault Family Violence cases—the same charge I once prosecuted—along with aggravated assault involving serious bodily injury, unlawful restraint, injury to a disabled individual, and a state-jail felony criminal mischief. On a second-degree felony theft case, I argued a $1 million bond down to $50,000.

If you are facing a serious charge, you want someone who has read these files from the State’s side of the table. Call me before you talk to anyone else.

Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Every case depends on its own facts.