The difference between a drug possession charge and a drug delivery charge in Texas is not just the severity of the offense. It is often the difference between a misdemeanor and years in prison. Manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance in Penalty Group 1 starts at a state jail felony for less than one […]
Deandra Grant, Managing Partner of Deandra Grant Law, has authored a two-part series on retrograde extrapolation published in Counterpoint: The Journal of Science & the Law. Counterpoint is an internationally indexed scientific journal (ISSN 2369-2774) covering the intersection of forensic science and criminal law, and is read by DUI defense attorneys, forensic scientists, and legal […]
A veteran teacher with twenty-something years in the classroom, no disciplinary history, no prior criminal record. A student in crisis who is physically dangerous, injuring themselves or others and beyond the reach of verbal de-escalation. The teacher intervenes physically. Someone gets hurt. And then, weeks or months later, there is a criminal charge: injury to […]
By Deandra Grant, J.D., M.S. (Pharmaceutical Science), ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientist, and Sol Bobst, Ph.D., DABT, ToxSci Advisors LLC If you are on bond supervision or probation in Texas with a drug testing condition, a positive THC result is not just an administrative inconvenience. It is potential grounds for bond revocation, a probation violation hearing, and […]
On March 13, 2026, a federal jury in Fort Worth returned guilty verdicts against nine defendants connected to a July 4, 2025 incident outside the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. Eight were convicted of providing material support to terrorists. One (Benjamin Song, a former Marine Corps reservist) was convicted of attempted murder for […]
At a February 2026 hearing, Luigi Mangione stood up in a Manhattan courtroom and told the judge: “It’s the same trial twice. One plus one is two. Double jeopardy by any commonsense definition.” He is legally wrong. But he is not wrong that being tried twice for the same conduct is a serious burden. It’s […]
Deferred adjudication is one of the most commonly misunderstood options in Texas criminal law. Defendants hear the phrase, assume it means their case goes away, and are surprised later when they discover the record implications are more complicated than they expected. Others assume they are not eligible when they actually are or vice versa. This […]
James Broadnax was convicted in Dallas County in 2009 for the robbery and murder of two men in Garland. He is scheduled to die by lethal injection on April 30, 2026. His cousin, Demarius Cummings, has submitted a sworn affidavit confessing that he (not Broadnax) was the one who pulled the trigger. Cummings says he […]
A bodily injury assault in Texas is normally a Class A misdemeanor which carries up to one year in county jail, a $4,000 fine, and the collateral consequences of a misdemeanor conviction. But if the person assaulted is a public servant lawfully discharging an official duty, that same conduct becomes a third-degree felony carrying 2 […]
By Deandra Grant, J.D., M.S. (Pharmaceutical Science), ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientist Driving at 11 pm and blood drawn at 12 am with a result of 0.10. On its face, the case looks straightforward. But Texas law does not ask what your BAC was when the test was administered. It asks what your BAC was, and whether […]