Federal prosecutors indict when they are ready to win. Get ahead of them.
By the time you learn you are a target, federal agents may have worked the case for months. Federal court runs on different rules, different prosecutors, and different math than state court. The moves that matter most often come before an indictment exists.
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The sentencing guidelines do the math before you ever see a courtroom.
Federal sentences are calculated, not negotiated over a courthouse hallway. The guidelines convert the alleged conduct into an offense level, add enhancements, factor in criminal history, and produce a range in months. There is no parole in the federal system, so most of a federal sentence gets served. Every input in that formula is worth fighting over, because each one moves the range by years.
The investigation is just as different. Federal cases are built quietly, over months, by agencies with subpoena power and forensic resources no local department can match. Grand jury subpoenas, target letters, and agents at your door mean the government is already far down the road. The question is whether your defense starts now or after the indictment.
A federal felony conviction reaches past the sentence. It can take your professional license, your gun rights, and your immigration status, and federal cases routinely add forfeiture and restitution that follow you after release. We defend federal cases across Texas, in each of the state’s four federal districts, from our base in Collin County.
Different rules require a different defense.
A federal case is won at specific decision points: before indictment, at detention, in the guidelines fight, and at trial. We prepare for all four.
Engage before the indictment
The most valuable window in a federal case often closes before charges exist. If you have received a target letter, a grand jury subpoena, or a visit from agents, counsel can open a line to the prosecutor, present evidence the government has not seen, and in some cases shape what gets charged at all. Once the indictment lands, those options narrow.
Fight the guidelines arithmetic
In federal court, the sentencing range is built from numbers: offense level, loss amount, role, criminal history, enhancements. Each contested point moves the range, and the difference is measured in years. We treat the guidelines calculation as a second trial and litigate every input.
Win the detention hearing
Federal court has no cash bail. Within days of arrest, a magistrate judge decides whether you await trial at home or in custody, and that decision shapes your ability to work, support your family, and build a defense. We prepare for that hearing like it is the trial, because for many clients it is the most consequential day of the case.
Prepare every case as if it will be tried
Federal prosecutors expect pleas. A defense built for trial, with the motions filed and the evidence tested, is what changes their math. Our trial fees are included in every quote, so the decision to fight rests on the evidence, never on your wallet, and the attorney you hire is the attorney who appears in court.
Federal Crimes: the questions clients ask first.
I received a target letter. What do I do?
How is a federal case different from a state case?
Will I get bail in federal court?
Federal agents want to ask me a few questions. Should I talk to them?
The call is free. Waiting is not.
Evidence goes stale, witnesses move, and deadlines pass whether you have hired a lawyer or not. The earlier we start, the more we can do.
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