The registry is the sentence that never ends. We defend these cases before they become indictments.
A sex crime accusation threatens your name, your freedom, and a lifetime on a public registry. We have secured no-bills in sexual assault and sexual assault of a child cases, a dismissal in another, and a reduction to misdemeanor indecent assault with no registration. The defense starts before the indictment, so the worst thing you can do is wait.
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Registration outlasts any sentence the court can give.
Texas sex offender registration is public, searchable, and for many offenses it lasts for life. It controls where you can live, where you can work, and how every neighbor, employer, and search engine sees your name. It does not take a guilty verdict at trial to get there. For most registrable offenses, even deferred adjudication carries the registration requirement, which is why a plea that sounds like a way out can be the worst outcome on the table.
The damage starts before any courtroom. These investigations often run for weeks before an arrest, and detectives use that time to build the file: a forensic interview of the accuser, a recorded phone call you do not know is recorded, a polite request for your side of the story. People talk because they believe innocence protects them. What they say becomes the spine of the indictment.
Every felony sex charge in Texas has to pass through a grand jury before it becomes an indictment. That is a real checkpoint, not a formality. A defense presented to the grand jury can end the case with a no-bill before charges ever issue. We have done exactly that. The window closes at indictment, and it does not reopen.
The State builds these cases early. So do we.
Patrick McGuire prosecuted criminal cases for Dallas County. He reads a sex crime file the way the prosecutor will, finds what it cannot prove, and starts the defense while the State is still building.
Move before the indictment
A grand jury can refuse to indict. While the case is still pre-indictment, we prepare a presentation that puts the contradictions, the physical evidence, and the full context in front of the grand jury. That work has produced a no-bill in a sexual assault case and a no-bill in a sexual assault of a child case.
Shut down the investigation playbook
Pretext calls, voluntary interviews, consent searches of your phone. Detectives gather most of their leverage before the arrest, from the accused. Once we are retained, every contact with investigators runs through us, and the recorded call that was built to bury you never gets made.
Test the forensic case piece by piece
Outcry timelines, forensic interview technique, DNA, digital evidence, and the motives behind an accusation all get examined, not accepted. Inconsistencies between the account and the physical evidence are where these cases come apart, and we have won dismissals by finding them.
Guard the registry line at every exit
When dismissal is not on the table, the outcome that matters most is the one that avoids registration. We reduced a sexual assault charge to misdemeanor indecent assault with deferred adjudication and no registration. And because trial fees are included in our quote, the State knows we will pick a jury. A five-count trial we took ended in a hung jury, not a conviction.
Sex crime results from our case files.
A no-bill means the grand jury refused to indict. A mistrial means the jury did not reach a verdict. Outcomes below come from both attorneys.
- No bill Sexual assault
- No bill Sexual assault of a child
- Dismissed Sexual assault of a child
- Reduced Sexual assault reduced to misdemeanor indecent assault, deferred adjudication No registration
- Mistrial Sexual assault bigamy, two counts, and indecency with a child, three counts Hung jury
Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Every case depends on its own facts.
Sex Crimes: the questions clients ask first.
A detective called and wants my side of the story. Should I give it?
Will I have to register as a sex offender?
I have not been arrested or charged yet. Is it too early to hire a lawyer?
The accusation is false. Won’t the truth come out on its own?
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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