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Tarrant County Assault Defense
Fort Worth Assault Lawyer
Assault cases in Tarrant 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 outcomes for people facing assault and family violence charges in Tarrant County.
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Assault & Family Violence Defense in Fort Worth
Facing an Assault Charge in Tarrant County?
Deandra Grant Law is a Fort Worth assault defense law firm defending assault charges in Fort Worth and throughout Tarrant County. Texas grades assault by what happened and to whom: offensive contact is a Class C ticket, bodily injury is a Class A misdemeanor, and serious bodily injury or a deadly weapon makes it aggravated assault, a second-degree felony with two to twenty years of exposure. Assault on a police officer or another public servant is a third-degree felony on its own. The Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office prosecutes through specialized units, the misdemeanors are heard in the County Criminal Courts at the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center, and the felonies go to the Criminal District Courts in the same building.
These cases move fast at the front. The State’s evidence is largely fixed within days of the arrest: the 911 audio, the body camera video, the photographs, the statements on both sides, and who called first. The defense is built on that same evidence, which is why we preserve it before the story hardens. Partner Douglas Huff is an ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientist with digital forensics training, and managing partner Deandra Grant is a former prosecutor with more than 30 years of trial experience. When the injuries are disputed, the medical records and the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s crime laboratory records are where the Fort Worth assault lawyer on your case starts, and self-defense is argued from the same file.
Family violence is an assault charge with a relationship attached, and Tarrant County handles it differently at every step: the emergency protective order at magistration, the dedicated family violence unit at Tim Curry, and the affirmative finding that outlasts the sentence. We cover all of it on our Fort Worth domestic violence lawyer page. This page is about assault, from a Class C ticket to aggravated assault, defended by a Fort Worth assault lawyer who tries these cases at Tim Curry, ten minutes from our Airport Freeway 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
Fort Worth Assault Charges We Handle
Every Tarrant 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.
Fort Worth 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 Tarrant County
Tarrant 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 district courts, both at the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center at 401 W. Belknap Street.
Who prosecutes
The Tarrant County District Attorney prosecutes through specialized units, including a dedicated family violence unit. The prosecutor across the table works these cases every day.
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 Tarrant 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 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 Fort Worth Clients Say
613 Google reviews across our six offices in North and Central Texas. These came through the Fort Worth office.
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Fort Worth Assault Attorneys in the Tim Curry Courts
Douglas Huff, an ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientist with digital forensics training, leads our Fort Worth office alongside Deandra Grant, a former prosecutor listed among Fort Worth Magazine’s Top Lawyers. The Fort Worth assault attorney on your case appears in the County Criminal Courts and the Criminal District Courts at Tim Curry every week.
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Serving All of Tarrant County
We defend assault cases from every corner of Tarrant County: Fort Worth itself plus Arlington, Hurst, Euless, Bedford, North Richland Hills, Grapevine, Keller, Mansfield, Haltom City, and Watauga. Wherever the arrest happened, the case lands at Tim Curry, and we are in that building every week.
Every charge we defend here has its own walkthrough: Fort Worth Criminal Defense Lawyer, Fort Worth DWI Lawyer, Fort Worth Domestic Violence Lawyer, Fort Worth Drug Crimes Lawyer, and Fort Worth Sex Crimes Lawyer. The courthouse, the jail, and the bond process are covered in our Tarrant County court guide.
Arlington
Arlington police book arrests at the city jail before the case is filed with the Tarrant County DA, and the entertainment district around AT&T Stadium and Globe Life Field produces a steady run of these cases. Every one of them is heard at Tim Curry, about 25 minutes from our office.
Grapevine, Southlake, and Colleyville
Grapevine sits on the TX-114 and TX-121 corridor beside DFW Airport, Southlake runs its police and fire services as a single Department of Public Safety, and Colleyville patrols TX-26 and Glade Road heavily. The municipal courts in all three keep only Class C tickets; anything Class B or above is a Tarrant County case heard downtown, 20 to 25 minutes from our office.
Keller
Keller’s municipal court keeps only Class C tickets. A Keller arrest for anything higher, including a charge that started as a stop on US-377 or Keller Parkway, is filed in Tarrant County and heard at Tim Curry, about 20 minutes from our office.
Euless, Hurst, and Bedford
The Mid-Cities anchor the Airport Freeway corridor about fifteen minutes east of our office, and each city jail holds an arrestee before the county transfer. Cases from the HEB cities are filed with the Tarrant County DA and heard at Tim Curry.
Mansfield
Mansfield straddles Tarrant, Johnson, and Ellis counties, and the county line decides the courthouse: a Tarrant-side arrest goes to Tim Curry, a Johnson-side arrest to the Guinn Justice Center in Cleburne. The address on the offense report settles it, and our Johnson County court guide covers Cleburne.
Burleson
Most of Burleson lies in Johnson County, so most Burleson cases are heard in Cleburne rather than Fort Worth; only the northern, Tarrant County side of the city goes to Tim Curry. The Tarrant County court guide covers the building, the bond process, and what to expect at the first setting.
Close to the Courthouse
Our Fort Worth Office
Ten minutes from the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center. Free parking on site.
Address
4500 Airport Freeway, Suite 101Fort Worth, TX 76117 (817) 631-6522
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
Parking on site at no cost, in the lot directly in front of the Airport Freeway entrance.
Directions to the Fort Worth Office
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From Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center
From 401 W. Belknap Street, head east on Belknap, which becomes Airport Freeway (SH-121). Stay on the access road and the office is at 4500 Airport Freeway, near the I-820 interchange.
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From Downtown Fort Worth / Sundance Square
From downtown, take Belknap Street northeast onto Airport Freeway (SH-121 North). Follow the frontage road to 4500 Airport Freeway.
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From Hurst / Euless / Bedford (Mid-Cities)
Take Airport Freeway (SH-121/183) west toward Fort Worth. Exit near Beach Street and the office is just off the access road at 4500 Airport Freeway.
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From Arlington
Take SH-360 north to Airport Freeway (SH-121/183) west, or I-30 west to I-820 north. The office is just off Airport Freeway at the I-820 interchange.
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From North Richland Hills / Northeast Tarrant
Take Loop 820 south to Airport Freeway (SH-121) west. The office is a few minutes past the interchange at 4500 Airport Freeway.
Also From This Office
- Fort Worth DWI Lawyer Science-driven DWI defense at Tim Curry, where blood goes to the county Medical Examiner.
- Fort Worth Criminal Defense Lawyer Misdemeanors and felonies against Tarrant County’s specialized prosecution units.
- Fort Worth Sex Crimes & Sexual Assault Lawyer Discreet, evidence-level defense of sex crime accusations in the Tim Curry courts.
- Fort Worth Drug Crimes Lawyer Drug charge defense in the Tim Curry courts, at every penalty group.
- Fort Worth Domestic Violence Lawyer Family violence cases at Tim Curry: the protective order, the finding, and the DA unit that prosecutes them.
Court guides for the counties this office covers: Tarrant County, Johnson County, Arlington, Grapevine.
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 Tarrant 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 Tarrant CountyTarrant County
Fort Worth Assault Charge Questions, Answered
Have a different question? Ask Deandra answers the ones people ask in the first call, and the Tarrant County court guide covers the building itself.
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