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Plano Criminal Defense
Plano Criminal Defense Lawyer
A Plano arrest for assault, drugs, theft, or a weapons charge is not heard in Plano. It is prosecuted by the Collin County DA in McKinney, and the defense has to be built for that courthouse.
- 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 recent outcomes for people facing criminal charges in Collin County.
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Criminal Defense in Plano
Facing Criminal Charges in Collin County?
Deandra Grant Law is a Plano criminal defense law firm defending people facing criminal charges in Plano and across Collin County, from Class C misdemeanors to first-degree felonies. Plano is the largest city in Collin County, and a Plano Police arrest for assault, drug possession, theft, or a weapons charge is not heard in Plano. The municipal court there handles only Class C tickets. Every Class B misdemeanor and above is filed with the Collin County District Attorney and heard at the Russell A. Steindam Courts Building in McKinney, the misdemeanors in the County Courts at Law and the felonies in the District Courts, by a well-prepared DA’s office that works its cases up thoroughly.
A Plano arrest books at the Plano city jail before the transfer to the Collin County Detention Facility on Community Avenue in McKinney, where a magistrate sets bond and conditions, usually within 48 hours. Drug and blood evidence from Plano goes to the Texas DPS crime lab in Garland, and its underlying records are discoverable. Every felony passes through the Collin County grand jury before indictment, and a defense packet presented at that stage can end a case before a charge is ever filed. Federal cases out of Plano are charged in the Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division, where Of Counsel James Lee Bright brings decades of federal trial experience.
The team is led by partner Douglas Huff, an ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientist with digital forensics training, alongside managing partner Deandra Grant, a former prosecutor with more than 30 years of trial experience. Deandra Grant Law does not have a Plano office; the Plano criminal lawyer on your case works from our Allen office, eighteen minutes up US-75 from the Legacy and downtown Plano corridors and fifteen minutes from the McKinney courts, and meets by phone or video whenever that is easier. The same attorneys who handle our Plano DWI cases defend the criminal docket, and our Texas criminal defense guide covers the statutes this page applies to Plano.
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
Plano Criminal Charges We Handle
Every charge heard in McKinney, from a Class B misdemeanor to a first-degree felony.
Domestic & Family Violence
An affirmative family-violence finding follows you long after the sentence ends.
Family violence defenseDrug Crimes
Possession through delivery and manufacturing, graded by penalty group and weight.
Drug charge defenseGun & Weapon Charges
Unlawful carry, felon in possession, and prohibited-weapons charges.
Weapons defenseSex Crimes
Accusations where the registry, not the sentence, is the lasting penalty.
Sex crimes defenseMurder & Homicide
Murder, manslaughter, and criminally negligent homicide, tried by trial attorneys.
Homicide defenseCrimes Against Children
Charges where a CPS investigation and the criminal case run at once.
What to do firstWhite-Collar Crimes
Fraud and financial charges built on records rather than eyewitnesses.
White-collar defenseProbation Violation
A motion to revoke or adjudicate moves faster than the original case did.
Revocation defenseLocal Knowledge
What Actually Happens to a Criminal Case in Collin County
Collin County runs its criminal cases differently from the counties around it. These are the local specifics that shape a defense here.
Your case is not heard in Plano
Every Class B charge and above is heard at the Collin County Courthouse in McKinney, the Russell A. Steindam Courts Building at 2100 Bloomdale Road: misdemeanors in the County Courts at Law, felonies in the District Courts. Plano Municipal Court keeps only the Class C tickets.
Who prosecutes
The Collin County District Attorney’s Office prosecutes cases from every department in the county, and it comes prepared. The defense has to be built to that standard.
Booking and bond
A Plano PD arrest books at the Plano city jail before the transfer to the Collin County Detention Facility at 4300 Community Avenue in McKinney. A magistrate sets bond and conditions, usually within 48 hours, and the conditions can be argued before that hearing.
Where the evidence goes
Drug and blood evidence from Plano goes to the Texas DPS crime lab in Garland. Its underlying records are discoverable, and the wait for results is often where the defense takes shape.
Federal cases go to Sherman
Federal charges out of Plano are prosecuted in the Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division. Of Counsel James Lee Bright has tried federal cases across all four Texas districts.
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 Collin County case before a charge is ever filed.
Why Deandra Grant Law
What Sets This Defense Apart
What decides a criminal 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.
Reviews
What Collin County Clients Say
613 verified reviews and counting. Real Texans, real charges, real outcomes.
★★★★★
They are very responsive to requests and questions. Doug went above and beyond to fight for me and get the best possible deal I could in Collin County. I even had questions during probation and they were quick to answer and help (which they didn't have to do).
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Jordyn Adams
Jun 2022
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It took me until 60 years of age to get arrested and I was in way over my head attorney wise. Never having been in the system and I really did not understand what was … More
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Stephen Parker
Jun 2022
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My son was facing possible prison prison time, I was afraid. But by the Grace of God I found Deandra Law Firm where Doug and Jada both worked awesome deals for my son in both counties he was facing..no prison. Thank you for being team Vick for us
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Karen Vick
Mar 2026
Attorneys
Plano Criminal Defense Attorneys in the McKinney Courts
Douglas Huff leads the Collin County criminal practice from our Allen office, alongside Deandra Grant. The Plano criminal attorney on your case appears in the Russell A. Steindam courts in McKinney every week, on misdemeanors and felonies alike.
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Serving All of Plano
We defend criminal cases from every part of Plano, from Legacy West and the Tollway corridor to downtown and East Plano, plus the Collin County cities around it: Allen, Frisco, McKinney, Murphy, Wylie, Parker, and Lucas, and the Collin County side of Richardson. Wherever the arrest happened, the case is prosecuted at the Russell A. Steindam Courts Building in McKinney, bond is set at the Collin County Detention Facility on Community Avenue, and drug and blood evidence goes to the DPS crime lab in Garland, so the same three buildings shape every case on this page.
Every charge we defend here has its own walkthrough: Plano DWI Lawyer, Allen & Collin County Criminal Defense Lawyer, Allen & Collin County DWI Lawyer, Frisco Criminal Defense Lawyer, Frisco DWI Lawyer, and McKinney DWI Lawyer. The courthouse, the jail, and the bond process are covered in our Collin County court guide.
Legacy West and West Plano
The Legacy West, Legacy Town Center, and Shops at Legacy corridor along the Dallas North Tollway and SH-121 produces a large share of Plano’s arrests, most of them beginning as a traffic stop on the Tollway or Legacy Drive. A Plano PD or DPS arrest there books at the Plano city jail and is filed with the Collin County DA in McKinney.
Downtown Plano and East Plano
The 15th Street bar and restaurant district, the DART corridor, and the US-75 frontage roads are Plano Police territory. The arrest books at the Plano city jail, and every Class B charge and above is heard in McKinney, not in Plano Municipal Court.
The George Bush Turnpike and US-75
Plano’s two busiest highways are worked by Plano PD, DPS troopers, and NTTA-area patrols. A stop on the Turnpike can sit on either side of the Plano and Richardson line; the Collin County side goes to McKinney, the Dallas County side to Frank Crowley in Dallas. The offense report’s location decides it.
The Collin County side of Richardson
Richardson straddles the Dallas and Collin county line, and a Richardson PD arrest north of the line is a Collin County case heard in McKinney beside Plano’s. Our Richardson page covers which side is which.
Murphy, Parker, and Lucas
The small cities east of Plano each run their own police department and file with the Collin County DA. Every one of those cases is heard at the Russell A. Steindam Courts Building, and our Allen office is about fifteen minutes from all three.
The Denton County sliver
A small western strip of Plano beyond the Tollway lies in Denton County. An arrest there is filed in Denton, not McKinney, and heard at the Denton County Courts Building. Our Denton page covers that court.
Close to the Courthouse
Our Allen Office, 18 Minutes from Plano
Straight up US-75 from Plano, exit W. McDermott Drive, and fifteen minutes from the Russell A. Steindam Courts Building in McKinney. Free parking on site at the Atrium building.
Address
1333 W. McDermott Drive, Suite 180Allen, TX 75013 (972) 848-8828
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
Surface and covered parking at no cost on site at the Atrium building, with visitor spaces near the main W. McDermott Drive entrance.
Directions to the Allen Office
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From Russell A. Steindam Courts Building (McKinney)
From 2100 Bloomdale Road, take US-75 South and exit W. McDermott Drive in Allen. Turn right and continue west; the Atrium building is at 1333 W. McDermott.
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From US-75 / Central Expressway
Exit W. McDermott Drive and head west toward Alma Road. The Atrium at 1333 W. McDermott is just past the Watters Road intersection.
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From Plano
Take US-75 North, exit W. McDermott Drive in Allen, and turn left across the highway. Continue west to 1333 W. McDermott.
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From Frisco / Sam Rayburn Tollway (SH-121)
Take SH-121 east to US-75 North, then exit W. McDermott Drive and head west.
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From Downtown Dallas
Take US-75 North (Central Expressway) to Allen, exit W. McDermott Drive, and turn left across the highway.
Also From This Office
- Allen DWI Lawyer Science-driven DWI defense for Allen arrests, prosecuted at the McKinney courts.
- Collin County DWI Lawyer DWI defense across the county, from Plano and Frisco to McKinney and Wylie.
- Allen Criminal Defense Lawyer Misdemeanors and felonies across Collin County, defended by a trial-tested team.
- Plano DWI Lawyer Plano DWI cases, prosecuted in McKinney by a county that will not reduce them to obstruction.
Court guides for the counties this office covers: Collin County, Grayson County, McKinney, Plano, Frisco.
A Different Kind of Case?
The Rest of What We Defend
The same attorneys handle these charges in the same courthouses.
DWI 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 Collin CountyFederal Crimes
Federal court runs on different rules and different sentencing math. Federal cases from Collin County are filed in the Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division.
Texas Federal CrimesCollin County
Plano Criminal Defense Questions, Answered
Have a different question? Ask Deandra answers the ones people ask in the first call, and the Collin County court guide covers the building itself.
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