Case Results of Tyler Flood

Fort Bend County, Motion to Suppress HGN denied by Judge McMeans even though he even acknowledged that it was done completely wrong. Motion to Suppress breath test also denied even though there was a clear violation of the 15 minute observation period. The Jury saw the illegality of the officers’ actions and said Not Guilty. After trial, the jury was so disturbed by the police and DPS not following proper procedures, that they asked the Judge for the Sheriff’s contact information so they can call and complain about what poor, dishonest place work there was in this case.

Harris County. Lying officers were scolded and admonished during trial for making up Probable Cause.

Client had bond forfeited while case was pending for not being able to attend trial when Judge ordered us to be there due to his teaching job at Texas A&M University. When he finally had his day in Court, the jury said Not Guilty.

2nd offense. State could not prove the blood draw was legal under the Transportation Code. State’s expert told me after trial that is he ever got a DWI he would definitely hire me.

TK was on his way home from a friend’s apartment, where he attended a pool party and barbecue, having 4 or 5 beers throughout the course of the afternoon and evening. The police were called after he had a minor accident when the driver ahead of him braked unexpectedly. The first officer on scene noted the odor of alcohol on TK’s breath, but he did not observe any signs of impairment. In an abundance of caution, he called a DWI Task Force officer to the scene to investigate whether TK was intoxicated. The second officer arrived and had TK perform SFST’s. The officer claimed to have observed sufficient clues on the HGN and Walk-and-Turn tests to justify arresting TK for DWI, although he passed the One Leg Stand test. He arrested TK and demanded that he take a breath test, threatening to obtain a warrant to take his blood if he did not. TK acquiesced, and his breath test result was 0.10. Once we received the video evidence in the case, we saw the TK never exhibited a single sign of impairment. His sp