Dismissed
Feb 2024
Charge
Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon
Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge dismissed
Tarrant County Assault & Family Violence Defense
Fort Worth Assault & Domestic Violence Lawyer
Assault and family violence cases in Tarrant County are decided by evidence gathered in the first days: the statements, the photos, the 911 audio, and who called first.
- 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 assault and family violence charges across Tarrant County, from a Class C ticket to aggravated assault. The Tarrant County DA runs a dedicated family violence unit, and an affirmative finding carries consequences that outlast any sentence. Cases are heard at the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center, and consultations are free.
Assault & Family Violence Defense in Fort Worth
Facing an Assault Charge in Tarrant County?
Deandra Grant Law defends assault and family violence charges in Fort Worth and throughout Tarrant County. The Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office prosecutes through specialized units, including a dedicated family violence unit, and these cases move fast at the front: an emergency protective order can issue before you are released, and the State’s evidence 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 prosecutor with more than 30 years of trial experience. In a family violence case, the affirmative finding itself carries consequences that outlast any sentence, which is why we treat the finding, not just the charge, as the fight.
What We Defend
Fort Worth Assault & Family Violence 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.
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.
The finding is the fight
An affirmative family-violence finding carries firearm restrictions under federal law and turns a future allegation into a felony. How a case resolves matters as much as whether it does.
Protective orders move fast
An emergency protective order can issue at magistration, before you are released, and it can keep you out of your own home. Its terms can be modified, but only by going back to court.
The complaining witness cannot drop the case
Only the District Attorney can dismiss. A recanting or unwilling witness changes the evidence picture, not the charge, and prosecutors here are trained to go forward without one.
Case Results
Recent Tarrant County Results
Real outcomes from real Tarrant County cases. Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Dismissed
Jul 2022
Charge
Assault
Assault charge dismissed
Not-guilty
May 2021
Charge
Domestic Violence Assault
Not guilty verdict on domestic violence assault at trial
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 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 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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Recognized by the Legal Profession and the Press
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Serving All of Tarrant County
We defend assault and family violence 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 and Fort Worth DWI 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 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
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