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Dallas County Assault & Family Violence Defense
Dallas Assault Lawyer
Assault cases in Dallas County are decided by evidence gathered in the first days: the statements, the photos, the 911 audio, and who called first.
- Former Dallas County Prosecutor
- Two ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientists
- 17 Published Law Books
- 500+ Cases Tried to Verdict
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Every case gets forensic-level attention. These are recent outcomes for people facing assault and family violence charges in Dallas County.
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Assault & Family Violence Defense in Dallas
Facing an Assault Charge in Dallas County?
Deandra Grant Law is a Dallas assault defense law firm defending assault charges in Dallas and throughout Dallas County. Assault cases are worked by Dallas County prosecutors who try them every day, and the family violence cases among them go to a specialized unit. These cases move fast at the front: an emergency protective order can issue before you are released, and the State’s evidence, the statements, the photographs, the 911 audio, is largely fixed within days of the arrest.
The defense is built on that same evidence. Partner Douglas Huff is an ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientist, and managing partner Deandra Grant is a former Dallas County prosecutor with more than 30 years of trial experience. The Dallas assault lawyer on your case starts with what the State fixed early: the injuries, the statements, the video, and who called first.
Family violence is an assault charge with a relationship attached, and Dallas County handles it differently at every step: the emergency protective order at magistration, the Family Violence Division at Frank Crowley, and the affirmative finding that outlasts the sentence. We cover all of it on our Dallas domestic violence lawyer page. This page is about assault, from a Class C ticket to aggravated assault, defended by a Dallas assault lawyer who tries these cases at Frank Crowley, eight minutes from our Oak Lawn office.
Act Early
The first days shape the whole case
Evidence gets preserved, or it gets lost. Witnesses get found, or they scatter. A defense that starts before indictment has options one that starts at arraignment does not.
What We Defend
Dallas Assault Charges We Handle
Every Dallas County assault and family-violence charge, graded by injury and relationship.
Assault
From a Class C ticket to a first-degree felony, graded by injury and circumstance.
Assault defenseAggravated Assault
Serious bodily injury or a deadly weapon makes an assault a second-degree felony.
Aggravated assault defenseAssault Causing Bodily Injury
The Class A misdemeanor most assault arrests actually charge.
The bodily-injury standardDomestic & Family Violence
An affirmative family-violence finding follows you long after the sentence ends.
Dallas domestic violence lawyer Family violence defenseContinuous Family Violence
Two alleged incidents within a year become a third-degree felony.
How continuity is chargedProtective Order Violation
A separate charge that can attach even when the protected person initiated contact.
Violation defenseTerroristic Threat
A threat charge that rests entirely on words and how they were taken.
Threat charge defenseDeadly Conduct
Reckless-danger charges, from a misdemeanor to a felony when a firearm is discharged.
Deadly conduct defenseAssault on a Public Servant
Contact with an officer during an arrest, charged as a third-degree felony.
Public servant casesLocal Knowledge
What Actually Happens to an Assault Case in Dallas County
Dallas County runs its criminal cases differently from the counties around it. These are the local specifics that shape a defense here.
Where your case is heard
Misdemeanor assault charges are heard in the County Criminal Courts and felonies in the Criminal District Courts, both at the Frank Crowley Courts Building.
Who prosecutes
The Dallas County District Attorney runs a specialized family violence unit, and assault cases are worked by prosecutors who handle them every day. The defense has to be built to that standard.
Aggravated assault is a second-degree felony
Serious bodily injury or a deadly weapon turns a misdemeanor assault into a second-degree felony with two to twenty years of exposure. What counts as serious, and whether the object was a deadly weapon, is argued from the medical records and the video.
Self-defense is decided on the evidence
Texas lets you use force to protect yourself, but the jury decides who started it from the 911 audio, the injuries on both sides, and the witnesses. We preserve all of it before the story hardens.
The other person cannot drop the case
Only the District Attorney can dismiss. A recanting or unwilling witness changes the evidence picture, not the charge, and Dallas County prosecutors are trained to go forward without one.
Why Deandra Grant Law
What Sets This Defense Apart
What decides an assault case is how well your lawyer understands the evidence.
Former Dallas County Prosecutor
Deandra Grant prosecuted cases as a Dallas County Assistant DA, so she knows exactly how the State builds them.
Two Forensic Lawyer-Scientists
Deandra Grant and Douglas Huff both hold the ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientist designation from the American Chemical Society.
Digital Forensics Training
Douglas Huff has completed digital forensics training, and phone extractions and device evidence get examined, not accepted.
500+ Trials Since 1994
We work only in DWI and criminal defense, and we have tried more than 500 cases to verdict.
Published Authorities
Seventeen legal books and resources, including the treatise other Texas defense attorneys keep on their desks.
We Read the Evidence
Lab reports, phone extractions, DNA: we request the underlying records and challenge them at the technical level, not the summary the State hands over.
After You Hire Us
What We Do on Every Case
From the first call, in order:
- Reach the case before indictment when we can, where a grand jury packet can end it before a charge is filed
- Demand the dash, body, and surveillance video before it’s destroyed
- Pull the full discovery file under Article 39.14: offense reports, witness statements, forensic records
- Examine the forensic evidence ourselves: lab records, chain of custody, the underlying data, not the summary
- Investigate the case the police didn’t: the witnesses never interviewed, the footage never pulled
- File the motions the evidence supports, because suppression is how weak cases end
- Build your mitigation file, with clinical assessments, at no cost to you
- Try the case if the offer isn’t right, which is why the offers get better
We quote a flat fee after a consultation at no cost to you, so the investment is known before you commit.
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What Dallas Clients Say
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In the middle of circumstances that doesn't make you proud. Have a supportive and positive lawyer by your side can change the perspective and see your mistakes as an opportunity to learn and grow. Thank you Kevin.
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Amazing law practice!! They work so smoothly together!! Highly recommend if you need help getting out of a pickle!!
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Kaylie Prachyl
Aug 2026
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There aren’t enough words to express how grateful I am for Kevin Sheneberger. From the moment he took my case, he carried the weight of it so I didn’t have to. He handled every detail, kept me informed, and gave me complete peace of mind during one of the most stressful times of my life. I truly felt like I could trust him completely.
Kevin fought for me every step of the way and never stopped working to get the best possible outcome. Because of his dedication, hard work, and knowledge, my DUI case was dismissed, and I avoided a conviction. I honestly couldn’t have asked for a better attorney.
What meant the most to me was that I never felt alone. Kevin genuinely cared about my case, treated me with kindness and respect, and always made me feel like I mattered. He did everything for me, and I never had to worry because I knew my case was in the best hands.
If you’re looking for an attorney who will fight for you, communicate with you, and truly care about getting the best possible result, I wholeheartedly recommend Kevin Sheneberger. He gave me hope when I needed it most and worked tirelessly to give me a second chance. I will never forget everything he did for me, and I will always be grateful. Thank you, Kevin, from the bottom of my heart.
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Natania Reyes
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Dallas Assault Attorneys in the Frank Crowley Courts
Deandra Grant, a former Dallas County Assistant District Attorney, and Douglas Huff, an ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientist with digital forensics training, lead these cases. The Dallas assault attorney on your case appears in the County Criminal Courts and the Criminal District Courts at Frank Crowley every week.
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Serving All of Dallas County
We defend assault cases from every corner of Dallas County: Dallas itself plus Garland, Irving, Mesquite, Grand Prairie, Carrollton, Richardson, Rowlett, DeSoto, Duncanville, Cedar Hill, and Lancaster. If the arrest happened in Dallas County, the case lands at Frank Crowley, and that is a building we work in every week.
Every charge we defend here has its own walkthrough: Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyer, Dallas DWI Lawyer, Dallas Domestic Violence Lawyer, Dallas Drug Crimes Lawyer, Dallas Sex Crimes Lawyer, Dallas Theft Defense Lawyer, Dallas Weapons Charge Lawyer, and Dallas Federal Criminal Defense Lawyer. The courthouse, the jail, and the bond process are covered in our Dallas County court guide.
North Dallas and Preston Hollow
An assault call in North Dallas or Preston Hollow is answered by the Dallas Police North Central Division, and the case is filed with the Dallas County DA like any other. The arrest books at Lew Sterrett and the case is set at Frank Crowley. Our Oak Lawn office is about 15 minutes down the Dallas North Tollway.
Oak Cliff and South Dallas
Southwest and South Central Division arrests make up a large share of the county’s assault docket. Those cases follow the same path through Lew Sterrett and the County Criminal Courts, and our office is about 15 minutes away up I-35E.
Lakewood, East Dallas, and White Rock
Northeast Division territory. An assault arrest there is a Dallas County case at Frank Crowley, and our office is a 15-minute drive west across Mockingbird Lane.
Irving and Grand Prairie
An Irving PD arrest is a Dallas County case, booked through the Irving city jail before it is filed with the Dallas County DA and set at Frank Crowley. Grand Prairie sits in Dallas, Tarrant, and Ellis counties, so the address on the offense report decides whether the case is heard in Dallas, Fort Worth, or Waxahachie. Our Irving page covers the city, and Las Colinas is about 20 minutes from our office on SH-114.
Carrollton
Carrollton spans Dallas, Denton, and Collin counties, and a Carrollton PD assault arrest is filed in whichever county the address falls in. The Dallas County side goes to Frank Crowley, the Denton side to the Denton County Courts Building, and the Collin side to McKinney. Our Carrollton page explains how to tell which one has your case. About 20 minutes from our office on I-35E.
Richardson
Richardson straddles the Dallas and Collin county line. A Richardson PD arrest south of the line is a Dallas County case; north of it, the case is heard in McKinney by the Collin County DA instead. See our Richardson page. The office is about 20 minutes south on US-75.
Highland Park and University Park
The Park Cities have their own agencies, Highland Park DPS and University Park PD, but both towns sit entirely inside Dallas County, so the case is filed with the Dallas County DA and heard at Frank Crowley. Our office on Oak Lawn Avenue is under ten minutes from either town. See our Highland Park page.
Garland
Garland PD arrests are Dallas County cases unless the address falls in the slivers of the city that reach into Collin or Rockwall County. Garland holds arrestees at its own detention center before the case is filed with the Dallas County DA. The office is about 25 minutes away on I-635 and US-75.
Mesquite
Mesquite PD books through the Mesquite city jail, and the case is filed in Dallas County unless the arrest fell in the small part of the city that lies in Kaufman County, where it is heard in Kaufman instead. Our Kaufman County court guide covers that docket. About 25 minutes from the office on I-30.
Cedar Hill, DeSoto, Duncanville, and Lancaster
The Best Southwest cities are Dallas County, except for the part of Cedar Hill that crosses into Ellis County, where a case goes to the courthouse in Waxahachie. Our Ellis County court guide covers that docket. Each city police department books locally, and the case still lands at Frank Crowley. About 25 minutes from the office on US-67.
Close to the Courthouse
Our Dallas Office
Eight minutes from the Frank Crowley Courts Building. Free visitor parking, validated for clients.
Address
3300 Oak Lawn Avenue, Suite 700Dallas, TX 75219 (214) 225-7117
Consultation
At no cost and confidential, in person, by phone, or by video.
Office Hours
Mon – Fri8:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Sat – SunBy appointment
Phone intake24 hours
Parking
Visitor parking at no cost in the Oak Lawn building garage, validated for clients. Enter the garage off Hall Street, take the elevator to the lobby level, then change elevators to the 7th floor. Reception is on your left.
Directions to the Dallas Office
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From Frank Crowley Courts Building
Head north on Riverfront Blvd, merge onto I-35E North, exit Oak Lawn Ave. Office is on the left.
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From DFW International Airport
Take TX-114 E to I-35E S. Exit Oak Lawn Ave and turn left. Office is two blocks east.
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From Downtown Dallas
Take Pearl St north to Cedar Springs Rd, continue to Oak Lawn Ave. Office is on the right.
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From Plano and the North Suburbs
Take Dallas North Tollway south, exit Wycliff Ave, turn left on Oak Lawn. Office is half a mile down.
Also From This Office
- Dallas DWI Lawyer Science-driven DWI defense in the Frank Crowley courts, from a first offense to felony DWI.
- Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyer Misdemeanors and felonies across Dallas County, defended by a trial-tested team.
- Dallas Sex Crimes Lawyer Discreet, evidence-level defense of sex crime accusations, from the first detective call onward.
- Dallas Drug Crimes Lawyer Possession through delivery, every penalty group, with the lab work read at the chemistry level.
- Dallas Federal Criminal Defense Lawyer Federal defense in the Northern District of Texas, from target letter to trial.
- Dallas Domestic Violence Lawyer Family violence cases at Frank Crowley: the protective order, the finding, and the DA unit that prosecutes them.
- Dallas Theft Defense Lawyer Shoplifting to felony theft, burglary, and robbery, graded by value and decided on the store video.
- Dallas Weapons Charge Lawyer Unlawful carry, prohibited places, felon in possession, and the airport checkpoint cases.
Court guides for the counties this office covers: Dallas County, Ellis County, Irving, Richardson, Carrollton, Highland Park.
A Different Kind of Case?
The Rest of What We Defend
The same attorneys handle these charges in the same courthouses.
Criminal Defense
Assault, drugs, theft, weapons, and every other Texas charge, defended by the same trial team.
Criminal Defense in Dallas CountyDWI Defense
A DWI arrest starts two cases at once, and the science is where both are won. It is the largest share of our practice.
DWI Defense in Dallas CountyDallas County
Dallas Assault Charge Questions, Answered
Have a different question? Ask Deandra answers the ones people ask in the first call, and the Dallas County court guide covers the building itself.
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