Flower Mound DWI Lawyer

Your Case Is Heard in Denton, Not in Flower Mound

Flower Mound is in Denton County, and Denton County prosecutes and hears the case no matter which part of the county the stop happened in. Your case goes to the Denton County Courts Building at 1450 E McKinney Street in Denton.

That building holds all five County Criminal Courts, which handle misdemeanors, and all twelve District Courts, which handle felonies, along with the District Attorney’s Office and the clerks. Whatever your charge, everything happens in one place, and it is not the place you were arrested.

What Makes Denton County Different

Three things about Denton County are worth knowing before you assume your case will look like a Dallas or Collin County case.

The county courts can keep a felony DWI. In most Texas counties a felony DWI leaves the county court and transfers to a district court. Denton County’s County Criminal Courts carry concurrent felony jurisdiction over intoxication offenses, so a felony DWI here may stay in a county court rather than move. That changes who hears the case and how it moves.

The DA runs a dedicated DWI Unit. These cases are handled by prosecutors who do nothing else. That raises the standard on the other side of the table, and it means the weak arguments do not work.

Blood goes to the DPS lab in Garland. Denton County sends DWI blood to the state lab in Garland for analysis. Turnaround there is often slow, and that delay is frequently where the defense takes shape, because it is time to get the underlying data and read it properly.

Denton County also runs a DWI Treatment Court and a Veterans Court. For the right case each is a real alternative to a straight conviction, though eligibility is narrow and fact specific. And Denton County runs no-refusal weekends, when a breath test refusal can turn into a warrant and a blood draw the same night.

There Is No Flower Mound Office, and Denton Is Where the Case Is Anyway

Deandra Grant Law does not have an office in Flower Mound. The firm has six offices: Dallas, Fort Worth, Allen, Denton, Rockwall, and Waco. The Denton office is the one that serves Denton County, and it sits near the courthouse where a Flower Mound case is actually heard.

That proximity is worth something practical rather than symbolic. It is not that a local lawyer knows secret people. It is that knowing how a particular court runs its docket is the kind of thing that shortens a case.

Two Clocks Start the Day You Are Arrested

The criminal case is the one people think about. It moves at the pace of the Denton County courts.

The license case is the one people miss. If you refused testing, or your breath test came back at 0.08 or higher, the officer serves a notice of suspension on form DIC-25. That form is not a driving permit and it stopped being one in September 2023. What it does is start a 15 day clock to request an Administrative License Revocation hearing. Requesting that hearing on time stays the suspension while the hearing is pending. Let the 15 days pass and the suspension takes effect on its own, with no hearing at all.

Read The 15-Day Rule and ALR and Your Texas License next.

Where to Go From Here

• The county: Denton DWI Lawyer
• The courthouse: Denton County Courthouse Guide
• The charge: DWI First Offense
• The evidence: Tests and Evidence
• What happens next: The DWI Court Process