Dallas Federal Criminal Defense Lawyer
Federal cases in the Northern District of Texas run on different rules and different sentencing math. We work them from the target letter forward.
- 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 federal criminal cases in Dallas and across all four Texas federal districts. Dallas cases are prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, and they usually begin before any arrest, with an investigation, a target letter, or a grand jury subpoena. Of Counsel James Lee Bright brings more than 25 years of federal trial experience. Consultations are free and confidential.
Facing a Federal Case in Dallas County?
Deandra Grant Law defends federal criminal cases in Dallas and across Texas. Federal court is a different arena: career prosecutors with agency-built cases, detention hearings instead of bail bonds, and sentences driven by the federal guidelines rather than Texas punishment ranges. Most of the defense work happens before an indictment is ever returned, in the window a target letter or grand jury subpoena opens.
Of Counsel James Lee Bright brings more than 25 years of federal trial experience across all four Texas districts, including service as lead counsel in the Oath Keepers trial. Behind him sits the firm’s forensic bench: two ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientists and digital forensics training, for the wiretaps, lab analyses, device extractions, and financial records federal cases are built on.
Dallas Federal Charges We Handle
The federal charges filed most often in Texas, statute by statute.
Federal Drug Crimes
Federal drug charges carry mandatory minimums measured in years or decades.
Federal drug defenseDrug Trafficking
Trafficking weight triggers the statutes with the steepest mandatory minimums.
Trafficking defenseDrug Conspiracy
Conspiracy liability can attach the whole ring's weight to one defendant.
Conspiracy defenseFederal Conspiracy
An agreement can be charged even when the underlying crime never happened.
How conspiracy worksFraud & Financial Crimes
Wire, mail, bank, and healthcare fraud, built on records rather than eyewitnesses.
Fraud defenseFederal Weapon Charges
Felon-in-possession and 924(c) counts that stack mandatory, consecutive time.
Weapons defenseFederal Sex Crimes
Federal sex offense charges carry severe penalties and mandatory minimums.
Federal sex crime defenseRICO
Enterprise charges that turn a group of state cases into one federal indictment.
RICO defenseDrug Smuggling
Importation charges prosecuted aggressively across the Texas federal districts.
Smuggling defenseFederal DWI
DWI on federal property is prosecuted in federal court, not state.
Federal DWI rulesWhat Actually Happens to a Federal 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
Dallas federal cases are prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas. Collin County matters go to the Eastern District's Sherman Division instead, and we work both.
It starts before the arrest
Federal charges begin in a grand jury proceeding you have no right to attend. A target letter or a subpoena means the case has already started, and that is the moment to engage.
The sentencing math is different
Federal sentences run on the guidelines: offense levels, criminal history, enhancements. Where a case lands in that math is negotiated and litigated, and it starts with the charge itself.
Decades of federal trial experience
Of Counsel James Lee Bright has tried federal cases for more than 25 years across all four Texas districts, including as lead counsel in the Oath Keepers trial.
The forensic evidence still decides
Wiretaps, lab analyses, device extractions, financial records: federal cases are built on evidence that can be examined, and our forensic bench reads it at the technical level.
What Sets This Defense Apart
Every firm says it will fight for you. What actually decides a federal case is how well your lawyer understands the evidence.
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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The Attorneys in These Courts
Forensic-science training, three decades of Dallas County defense, and the courtroom record to back it up.
Recognized by the Legal Profession and the Press
Peer-reviewed ratings, bar honors, and the newsrooms that call us when a DWI story breaks.
Serving All of Dallas County
We defend federal cases charged in the Northern District of Texas from our Dallas headquarters, and we appear across all four Texas federal districts: Northern, Eastern, Southern, and Western. A Collin County federal matter is charged in the Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division; wherever the indictment lands, the same team handles it.
Every charge we defend here has its own walkthrough: Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyer and Dallas Drug Crimes Lawyer.
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.
DWI Defense in Dallas CountyDallas Federal Case Questions, Answered
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