Dismissed
Jul 2025
Charge
Possession of a Controlled Substance
Controlled substance possession charge dismissed
Dallas County Drug Crime Defense
Dallas Drug Crimes Lawyer
Every Dallas County drug case rests on a lab analysis from SWIFS. We read the underlying chemistry ourselves, and the charge is only as good as it is.
- ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientists
- Former Prosecutor
- Author, The Texas DWI Manual
- 500+ Cases Tried to Verdict
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Deandra Grant Law defends drug charges across Dallas County, from possession to delivery, at every penalty group. Cases are heard at the Frank Crowley Courts Building, and the substance is tested at SWIFS, the county's own lab. Its underlying records are discoverable, and challenging them at the chemistry level is where these cases are won. Consultations are free.
Drug Crime Defense in Dallas
Facing a Drug Charge in Dallas County?
Deandra Grant Law defends drug charges in Dallas and throughout Dallas County, from a first possession case to delivery and trafficking allegations. The Dallas County District Attorney prosecutes these cases through a dedicated drug offenses unit, and every case rests on the same foundation: a lab analysis identifying the substance and its weight. In Dallas that analysis comes from SWIFS, the county’s own forensic institute.
That foundation is exactly where this firm is strongest. Managing partner Deandra Grant holds a Master’s in Pharmaceutical Science and a graduate certificate in forensic toxicology, and both she and partner Douglas Huff are ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientists. We request the chromatograms, the calibration records, and the chain of custody, and we challenge them at the chemistry level, along with the stop and the search that produced the evidence in the first place.
What We Defend
Dallas Drug Charges We Handle
Every Dallas County drug charge, graded by penalty group and weight.
Drug Possession
Possession of a controlled substance, graded by penalty group and weight.
Possession defenseDelivery & Trafficking
Delivery charges rest on intent the State usually infers from packaging and cash.
Delivery defenseMarijuana
Possession charges that now turn on whether the lab can prove THC concentration.
Marijuana defenseTHC Vapes & Concentrates
Penalty Group 2 makes a vape pen a felony where a joint is a misdemeanor.
The concentrate trapMethamphetamine
Penalty Group 1 charges where the lab analysis decides the case.
Meth charge defenseCocaine
Penalty Group 1 possession, from trace amounts to delivery weight.
Cocaine defenseFentanyl
Texas now charges some fentanyl deaths as murder, and enforcement is aggressive.
Fentanyl defenseDrug-Free Zone
A zone allegation raises the charge level and restricts probation.
Zone enhancementsPenalty Groups Explained
Which group a substance sits in decides whether you face a misdemeanor or a felony.
How grading worksLocal Knowledge
What Actually Happens to a Drug 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 drug 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 charges drug cases through a dedicated drug offenses unit. Whatever the substance, the prosecutor across the table works these cases every day.
Your evidence goes to SWIFS
Dallas tests seized substances at the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences. Identity and weight both come from that analysis, and its underlying records are discoverable.
Penalty groups decide the charge
Texas grades drug charges by penalty group and weight. The same conduct can be a misdemeanor or a felony depending on which group the substance sits in, and THC concentrates sit in Group 2.
Grand jury review on felonies
Every Texas felony passes through a grand jury before indictment. A defense packet presented at that stage can end a Dallas County drug case before a charge is ever filed.
Case Results
Recent Dallas County Results
Real outcomes from real Dallas County cases. Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Dismissed
Mar 2025
Charge
Felony Drug Possession
Felony drug possession charge dismissed
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is decided on its own facts.
All Case ResultsWhy Deandra Grant Law
What Sets This Defense Apart
Every firm says it will fight for you. What actually decides a drug 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 Actually 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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Forensic-science training, three decades of Dallas County defense, and the courtroom record to back it up.
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Serving All of Dallas County
We defend drug 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 and Dallas Federal Criminal Defense Lawyer.
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The Rest of What We Defend
The same attorneys handle these charges across 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.
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