Since 1994, Attorney James G. Sullivan has represented more than 3,000 clients in criminal and juvenile courts in Harris and surrounding counties. Sullivan gets proven results. The following criminal cases listed in reverse chronological order are exceptional and should not be considered as typical. Certainly, each case is different. Similar results may not be obtained in your case and past performance is no guarantee of future results.
The case dismissals listed can be expunged because they were not the result of deferred adjudication. Note that these are examples of only the cases Sullivan has handled since 2017. For examples of criminal and juvenile cases that Sullivan has handled over his 25+ year career, go here.
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| CHARGE | ACCUSATION AND RESULT | COURT |
| 2023 CASE RESULTS | ||
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 10/6/2023. Client was falsely accused by his brother of attacking him for the second time. The first case was filed in 2017. I represented him at trial, and the jury found him not guilty. | 5 |
| Aggravated Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed by the Grand Jury on 10/03/2023. Client was accused of injuring his roommate with a glass tumbler. | 230th |
| Retaliation Against Police Officer | Case reduced on 08/29/2023 to misdemeanor B terroristic threat with 2 days time served. | 209th |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 08/28/2023, less than one month after it was filed. Client was accused of injuring his girlfriend. | HCCCL 16 |
| Assault of a Public Servant | Case dismissed on 08/17/2023 prior to trial setting. Juvenile client was falsely accused by his middle school teacher of hitting her during class. | 315th |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 08/15/2023. Client was falsely accused by his mentally ill girlfriend of injuring her. | HCCCL 7 |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 08/15/2023. Client was attacked by the mother of her then boyfriend, the father of her child, while she was living with him at their home. The mother accused the client to shift the blame so that she herself would not be charged. | HCCCL 3 |
| Criminal Mischief | Case dismissed on 08/15/2023. The mother of her then boyfriend further claimed that the client keyed her car which also did not happen. | HCCCL 3 |
| Interfering with Duties of a Public Servant | Case dismissed 07/27/2023 after Sullivan persuaded the Judge to find No Probable Cause. Sullivan had the PC hearing off docket, the day before client’s first appearance, so the client didn’t have to go to court at all. | HCCCL 7 |
| Aggravated Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 07/26/2023 after DA read the defense packet for Grand Jury. Client was accused of threatening his wife with a firearm. | 176th |
| Assault of a Family Member by Choking | Case dismssed by the Grand Jury on 07/24/2023. Client was falsely accused by his now ex-fiancee of choking her. In fact, she is a black out and angry alcoholic that took out her misplaced anger on him. She suffered severe trauma as a child and refused to seek therapy. Instead, she drinks alcohol to the point of oblivion. One night, she threatened him with a knife and he was forced to defend himself. His mistake was not calling the police on her that night. She refused to stop drinking and he broke up with her. She retaliated by filing this false charge. | 482nd |
| Assault of a Family Member Enhanced to Felony | Case dismissed on 07/20/2023 at third Pretrial Conference setting. Client was accused of assaulting his girlfriend at a motel. Surveillance videos subpoenaed by the defense contradicted the woman’s story, and her own injuries were consistent with her falling down drunk. The case was about to be set for trial, and the DA dismissed it. | 180th |
| Failure to Stop and Give Information | Case dismissed on 07/13/2023. Client was accused of colliding with another vehicle and not stopping. | HCCCL 16 |
| Robbery | Case dismissed by the Grand Jury on 06/30/2023. Client was accused of assaulting his stepfather to get his mother’s car and apartment keys. | 183rd |
| Aggravated Robbery | Case reduced to misdemeanor Assault with deferred adjudication on 05/11/2023. 17 year old client was accused of participating in an armed robbery with two other teens. | 179th |
| Assault | Case dismissed on 05/10/2023. Client was falsely accused of assault. Several other guys attacked the complainant, but client and another teen were trying to stop the fight. | HCCCL 13 |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 04/24/2023. Client was falsely accused of assault against his mentally ill wife for the second time. In late 2018, he was first accused, and Sullivan represented him to get that case dismissed on 09/18/2019. In late 2022, he was accused again, and Sullivan defended him to get the second case dismissed. | HCCCL 10 |
| Aggravated Assault | Case dismissed by the Grand Jury on 04/21/2023. Client was falsely accused for the third time by a mentally ill and violent ex-girlfriend who self-medicates with marijuana. The violent ex attacked a different girl and they agreed to blame it on the client. Sullivan previously represented the client on a felony burglary of a habitation to commit assault (dismissed on 03/15/2022) and a misdemeanor family violence related charge (dismissed on 09/20/2022). The violent ex was charged with 2 felony domestic violence cases in another county after she viciously assaulted my client in the past, and has retaliated ever since by filing 3 separate and false charges. The first two were already expunged when the third false charge was filed. The violent ex may soon be convicted at trial of both felony charges. | 182nd |
| Injury to the Elderly | Case dismissed on 04/17/2023. Elderly client was accused of hitting her husband while intoxicated. | 184th |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 04/15/2023. Client was accused of attacking her husband while intoxicated. | HCCCL 15 |
| Assault | Case dismissed on 03/20/2023. Client was accused of attacking a 17 year old girl at a water park. | HCCCL 7 |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 03/02/2023. Client was accused of attacking her soon to be ex-husband, a violent drug addict. | HCCCL 3 |
| Hearing on DA’s Motion to Transfer Juvenile | On 02/09/2023, DA’s Motion to Transfer Determinate Sentence Probation to Criminal District Court was denied and probation ended after lengthy and contested hearing. If the motion was granted, the juvenile client would have struggled his entire life to survive, let alone thrive, with an adult record that could never be sealed. Instead, the client’s probation ended. | 315th |
| Terroristic Threat | Case dismissed on 01/30/2023. Client, a decorated and disabled Army veteran, was accused of threatening a garbageman when it was the other way around. | HCCCL 13 |
| Assault of a Public Servant | Case dismissed on 01/27/2023. Juvenile client was originally charged with murder and assault of a public servant from two separate incidents. The murder charge was dismissed 10/28/2022. The felony assault charge was dismissed right before Sullivan set the case for trial. | 314th |
| 2022 CASE RESULTS | ||
| Continuous Family Violence and Violation of Bond Conditions | On 12/01/2022, Continuous Family Violence case dismissed and Violation of Bond Conditions reduced to a misdemeanor. Client was accused of assaulting his girlfriend twice within a few months and the second domestic violence incident allegedly occurred while on bond with a no contact order. | 208th |
| Theft | Case dismissed on 11/30/2022. Client was accused of stealing from his employer. | HCCCL 13 |
| Assault of a Family Member by Choking | Case reduced on 11/17/2022 to misdemeanor unlawful restraint with 2 years deferred adjudication probation. Client was accused of choking his wife. | 208th |
| Discharge of Firearm in Metro Area & Unlawful Carrying of a Weapon | Cases dismissed on 11/10/2022. Client was accused of firing his weapon within city limits of Houston. | HCCCL 1 |
| Criminal Mischief | Case dismissed on 11/02/2022. Client was accused of damaging his girlfriend’s car. | HCCCL 9 |
| Murder | Case dismissed on 10/28/2022. Juvenile client was falsely accused of shooting at 3 men walking down the road at night and killing one of them. Client had been in juvenile detention for 10 days when his family hired Sullivan to represent him. Within a month Sullivan convinced the DA to dismiss the murder charge that a different DA had just filed earlier that same day, and the client was released. A detention employee said he had never seen anything like it in his 22 years of work. | 314th |
| Illegal Dumping | Case dismissed on 10/20/2022. Client was accused of throwing a bag of trash in a nearby illegal dump site. | HCCCL 3 |
| Aggravated Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed by the Grand Jury on 10/07/2022. Client was falsely accused of threatening to shoot his wife with a handgun. | 232nd |
| Terroristic Threat | The DA declined charges on 10/05/2022. Young juvenile and autistic client was accused of threatening to shoot a classmate and her family. Sullivan has forced the DA to dismiss similar cases in the past on the eve of setting the cases for trial, and his intervention in this case led to the DA’s decision to do the right thing. | Juv |
| Assault of a Family Member by Choking | Case dismissed by the Grand Jury on 09/29/2022. Client was falsely accused of choking his 15 year old son. | 232nd |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 09/20/2022. Client was falsely accused of attacking her ex-girlfriend in her ex’s apartment when she went with her mother to retrieve her belongings. This same ex falsely accused the client of breaking into her apartment and attacking her right after Xmas. Sullivan got that case in the 179th dismissed on 03/15/2022. | HCCCL 10 |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 09/16/2022 right before Sullivan set the case for a trial. Client was accused of striking her husband when in fact he was the abuser. | HCCCL 12 |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 09/15/2022 right before Sullivan set the case for a trial. Client was accused of hitting his wife while he was driving. | HCCCL 5 |
| Assault of a Family Member as 2nd Offender | Case dismissed on 08/30/2022, a few days after Sullivan was hired. Case was filed on 05/14/20. Client missed court date in March 2021 and was arrested on a felony warrant in August 2022. Sullivan was retained a week later and got the case dismissed a few days later. Client was accused of pushing his girlfriend to the floor. Client was previously convicted of choking the same girlfriend 5 years before. | 183rd |
| Theft | Case dismissed on 08/11/2022. Client was accused of shoplifting. | HCCCL 11 |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 07/28/2022. Client was accused of hitting his girlfriend when it was actually the other way around. | HCCCL 10 |
| Retaliation against a Police Officer | Case reduced to misdemeanor terroristic threat on 07/28/2022. Client was heavily intoxicated at a club, was physically beaten up by security guards when he tried to go back inside for his cell phone. Client was initially arrested for public intoxication, but then after the officer turned off his BWC in the processing section of the jail the officer claims client threatened to kick his butt if he ever saw him on the street. It was clear the officer was antagonistic towards the client during the 45 minute video but client chose not to risk a possible felony conviction at trial. | 176th |
| False Report | Case dismissed on 07/28/2022. Client was accused of calling the police on a false report. | HCCCL 10 |
| Terroristic Threat | Juvenile charges declined by the DA on 07/05/2022. Client was accused of sending a threatening online message to a girl in school. Sullivan spoke with police detective several times and explained why there was no probable cause to charge his client, and ultimately the DA agreed. | |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 06/30/2022, one week before the jury trial. Client was accused of injuring his girlfriend when she was trying to snatch his cellphone from his hand. | HCCCL 7 |
| Interfering with Emergency Call | Case dismissed on 06/23/2022. Client was accused of breaking his wife’s phone so she couldn’t call 911. | HCCCL 4 |
| Interfering with Duties of Public Servant | Case dismissed on 06/22/2022. Client and his friends were asked to leave a bar because another patron got into an argument. As they left, police arrived. And, client was arrested for no good reason. | HCCCL 1 |
| Evading Police by Motor Vehicle | Case dismissed on 6/16/2022. Client had only recently received her drivers license, was on her way to her first day on a new job, and took a long time to pull over. | 174th |
| Aggravated Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed by the Grand Jury on 06/14/2022. Client was accused of trying to run over his wife with his pickup truck and her son claimed to be a witness. | 482nd |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 06/09/2022. Client was accused of hitting the father of her child. | HCCCL 7 |
| Theft | Case dismissed on 06/06/2022. Client was accused of shoplifting. | HCCCL 15 |
| Engaging in Organized Crime – Aggravated Robbery | Case reduced on 05/12/22 to Robbery with 5 years Deferred Adjudication. Client was accused of being a lookout on a donut shop robbery in early 2020 and stayed out of trouble. Two of the three co-actors that entered the store with guns continued to commit other aggravated assaults or robberies after being released on bond. | 180th |
| Aggravated Assault of a Family Member & Assault of a Family Member by Choking | Aggravated Assault case dismissed and Choking case reduced to a misdemeanor assault of a family member with deferred adjudication on 04/19/22. The case was about to be set for a jury trial. The Client was accused of choking his girlfriend and causing her to suffer hip and pelvis fractures. The Client defended himself when his girlfriend pulled a gun on him. | 351st |
| Online Impersonation | Case reduced on 04/14/2022 from a felony to a misdemeanor, online harassment, with deferred adjudication probation. Client was accused of impersonating another high school student online and harassing her. | 179th |
| Unlawful Restraint | Case dismissed on 04/12/2022. Client was accused of holding his girlfriend against her will. | HCCCL 13 |
| Injury to the Disabled | Case dismissed on 04/11/2022. Client was accused of injuring her abusive ex-husband. | 177th |
| Assault of a Police Officer | Case dismissed on 03/22/2022. Teenage client was accused of kicking a police officer in the chest. | 338th |
| Assault of a Pregnant Family Member | Case dismssed on 02/16/2022, the day before trial. Client was accused of choking his pregnant sister. | 209th |
| Aggravated Assault | Cased reduced on 02/01/2022 from a felony to a misdemeanor assault. Client was accused of pointing a gun at a next door neighbor in an apartment building. | 208th |
| Burglary of a Habitation with intent to commit Assault | No Probable Cause found on 01/18/2022. Sullivan persuaded the Judge to find No PC against his female client who was invited to her girlfriend’s apartment, was attacked by her girlfriend, and was lied on by her girlfriend afterwards. The DA dismissed the felony charge on 03/15/2022. | 179th |
| Theft | Case dismissed on 01/13/2022. Client was accused of stealing from her employer. | HCCCL 8 |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 01/04/2022. Client was accused of striking his girlfriend. | HCCCL 13 |
| 2021 CASE RESULTS | ||
| Injury to a Child (2 cases) | Cases dismissed by the Grand Jury on 11/30/2021. Client was accused of injuring her children by spanking them. | 183rd |
| Forgery of Government Instrument | Case dismissed on 11/23/2021. Client was accused of possessing a fake social security card. | 232nd |
| Theft | Case dismissed on 10/21/2021. Client was accused of stealing a car dolly when in fact he merely helped an in-law to rent one and the in-law failed to return it. | HCCCL 4 |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 10/07/2021, a few days before trial. Client was charged with a felony injury to a child and a misdemeanor family violence from the same incident in 2020. The felony case was dismissed on 05/27/2021, however the DA refused to dismiss the family violence charge, so I set it for a jury trial. The complainant, his wife, already admitted that she was drunk the night her daughter lied and said client had knocked her down. The complainant then went after the Client who pushed her back in self defense. | HCCCL16 |
| Assault of a Family Member by Choking | Case dismissed on 10/05/2021 by DA after reading the grand jury defense packet. My client was very drunk, depressed and feeling suicidal the night he and his husband discussed the problems in their marriage. His spouse called 911 for mental health intervention. The police show up, and arrested my client on false charges. | 183rd |
| Assault of a Family Member by Choking | Case dismissed on 10/04/2021, the day of trial. Client and his wife have been in an arranged marriage for 30 years. The wife made up the accusations, presumably as a pretext for divorce, however their own teenage children were witnesses to the non-event and were prepared to testify in support of their father. | 228nd |
| Aggravated Robbery | Case dismissed by the Grand Jury on 09/24/2021. Client, a store owner, was accused of attacking and stealing money from a thieving customer when it was just the opposite. The thief repeatedly fed the gaming machines a laminated $100 bill, yanked it back out, and then requested a fraudulent refund from the temporary store clerk who was working alone. When the owner and the clerk confronted the thief at a machine the next day, the thief attacked the owner and the clerk defended him. The thief escaped and claimed the owner had robbed him of the money he had “honestly won.” The police did a brief and shoddy investigation. The thief actually had the gall to hire a lawyer to sue the store owner. | 208th |
| Aggravated Assault of a Police Officer | Case reduced to felony Deadly Conduct with deferred adjudication probation on 09/22/2021. The night the curfew was lifted after Hurricane Harvey in September 2017, Client and his friend went out to eat and then shoot off some steam. A few blocks from home around one in the morning, client slowly drove down an empty street and fired a pistol grip AK-47 several times into the air. An AK-47 fires a hypersonic round and the sound waves made by the round can make someone within earshot believe they were being shot at. Unbeknownst to them, 3 HPD K-9 cops in separate SUVs were parked over a 100 yards away on the other side of a hedgerow and tall fencing. As soon as they passed, the cops came after them. Client drove slowly to his house with the hazard lights on. The cops claimed they were being shot at. Client and his friend did not know they were there. The DA offered 25 years in prison. After 4 years and multiple trial settings , the DA finally agreed to do the right thing. | 263rd |
| Unlawful Installation of Tracking Device | Case dismissed on 09/16/2021. Client was accused of installing a tracking device (a Sprint Drive primarily used as a wireless hotspot) in his baby mama’s car in October 2020 while the aggravated assault charge was still pending. Fortunately, about two weeks before that, my client returned from out of town and found that his truck was burglarized and the Sprint Drive and two phones were stolen. He called the police and a report was made. The complainant tried to set my client up and failed miserably. | HCCCL 14 |
| Aggravated Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 09/16/2021. Client was accused of threatening his baby’s mama with a knife. The complainant has mental problems, and took out her frustrations on my client. Case was originally filed right after the March 2020 quarantine. | 262nd |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 09/07/2021. Client accused of hitting his girlfriend, and then running away while in handcuffs. The DA agreed to dismiss the family violence charge, and the client pled guilty to time served on the misdemeanor escape charge. | HCCCL 1 |
| Aggravated Assault of a Police Officer | Case dismissed on 09/02/2021. Client accused of striking police officer with his car door as he sped off and was later also charged with evading by motor vehicle. Client had a felony drug history. Sullivan pressured the DA to dismiss the aggravated assault and let his client go to the judge for punishment at a PSI hearing on the evading charge. The judge granted client probation. | 180th |
| Burglary of habitation to commit Assault | Case dismissed on 08/31/2021. Client was accused of forcing his way into his boyfriend’s apartment to attack him. | 180th |
| Burglary of habitation to commit Assault | Case dismissed by the Grand Jury on 08/25/2021. Client was accused of trying to force her way into her ex-boyfriend’s apartment to attack his new girlfriend. However, her ex and the new girlfriend lied to the police. Her ex has a lengthy criminal record. | 263rd |
| Abandoning Child | Case dismissed on 08/02/2021. Client accused of leaving her young children unsupervised at her apartment while she went to work. | 179th |
| Assault of a Police Officer | Case dismissed on 07/15/2021. Client accused of attacking an off duty policeman who worked security at a bar. | 351st |
| Violation of a Protective Order | Case dismissed on 07/09/2021. Client was at least the 4th or 5th man accused of family violence in two different counties by a mentally unstable nympho that goes from failed sexual relationship to failed sexual relationship. When she’s bored with one guy, she seduces a new guy. She then accuses the first guy of family violence and gets a protective order in order to get him out of the picture. My client’s family violence case was dismissed on 11/03/2020, and now his felony violation of protective order is dismissed. | 209th |
| Aggravated Robbery | Case dismissed on 07/08/2021, one month before trial. Client accused of robbing a guy for his cellphone outside a Kroger store. Client was mistaken for his twin brother. | 182nd |
| Aggravated Robbery | Juvenile client received a pretrial diversion on 06/29/2021. Client was accused of acting as a lookout on an armed robbery of a business with three adult co-actors. When he completes the diversion program, the case will be dismissed. Client also has football scholarship offers across the country, and will be able to play football in college once he completes the pretrial diversion. | 315th |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 06/29/2021. Client was accused of attacking his wife on his wedding night. | HCCCL 1 |
| Arson (2 cases) | Juvenile client received a pretrial diversion on 06/28/2021. Client was accused of setting a car on fire and on a later date trying to set a house on fire. The DA was strongly opposed to the deferred, but I believe the judge did the right thing. Client was brought here as a toddler and was not yet an American citizen. If not granted a pretrial diversion, client could be deported back to a country where he knows no one and does not speak the language. When he completed the diversion program 6 months later, the felony cases were dismissed. | 313th |
| Aggravated Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed by the Grand Jury on 06/10/2021. Client was accused of striking her former roommate with a board. However the former roommate, a large and strong butch woman in the LGBTQ community, was the aggressor and put the client in a chokehold. Client had to fight for her life. The former roommate had bipolar disorder, self medicated with alcohol and drugs, and had a history of stealing and destroying property of other roommates and then playing the victim. The police did a minimal investigation and chose to believe the former roommate over the client, the actual victim. | 338th |
| Assault of a Family Member by Choking | Case dismissed on 05/28/2021. Client was accused of choking his wife who was highly intoxicated. The allegations were false. His wife attacked him and then threw his young daughter down who had tried to separate them. Client restrained his wife to protect his child. Her young son called the police. As a result of the false allegation and the wife’s alcoholism, the couple divorced. | 351st |
| Injury to a Child | Case dismissed on 05/27/2021. Client was accused of injuring his stepdaughter. Client and his wife fell off the wagon during the pandemic. One day while his wife was highly intoxicated, the stepdaughter got mad because Client made her do her chores. The stepdaughter then lied to her mother and said Client knocked her down. Her mother flew into a rage and went after Client. | 337th |
| Assault of a Family Member by Choking | Case reduced to misdemeanor with deferred adjudication probation on 05/13/21. If client had not said what he did to the police, the result may have been better. | 339th |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 05/10/2021. Client was accused of attacking her husband while she was drunk. | HCCCL 8 |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 04/21/2021. Client was accused of pushing his wife down while he was drunk. | HCCCL 12 |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 04/05/2021. Client was accused of punching his girlfriend outside of his apartment after they returned from a night of drinking. He did not want her to come inside. After he went in and locked the door, she climbed over his second story balcony, entered through the unlocked sliding door, went to the kitchen and grabbed a sharp knife. He had to take it away from her. They made up. She spent the night. The next day she called the police and failed to mention how she herself committed a serious felony by breaking in and grabbing a deadly weapon to threaten or to attack my client. | HCCCL 7 |
| Forgery | Case dismissed on 03/29/2021. Client was one of 20 people charged with a forging a fake McDonalds check and cashing it at a convenience store. My client was innocent. I convinced the DA to dismiss the case between the first and second court settings. | 351st |
| Assault | Case dismissed on 03/24/2021. Client was accused of slapping a woman at a party at his house. | HCCCL 13 |
| Aggravated Assault | Juvenile client received a pretrial diversion on 03/22/2021 after a two day hearing. Client scared two girls with an unloaded gun. Client wants to join the Marine Corps. The only way that might be possible is if he could get the felony charge dismissed after completing a pretrial diversion. I worked hard to get another juvenile client that opportunity in 2017, and that former client is now thriving in the Corps, and his mother testified as to how difficult it was to get her son into the Corps with just two misdemeanor convictions. When he completes the diversion program, the case will be dismissed. | 314th |
| Aggravated Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 03/19/2021. Client was accused of trying to run his ex-wife off of the road in January 2019. The allegations were completely false. Due to the pandemic and a new DA who didn’t know the difference between a good case and a dog case, my client’s case dragged on much longer than it should have. By the fourth jury trial setting, the DA finally evaluated and dismissed the case. | 351st |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 02/24/2021. Client was accused of striking her adult son while intoxicated. | HCCCL 8 |
| Terroristic Threat | Case dismissed on 02/10/2021. Client was accused of threatening to kill his girlfriend’s ex-husband. | HCCCL 10 |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 01/13/2021. Client was accused of knocking his wife down. | HCCCL 15 |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 01/11/2021. Client was accused of striking his wife. | HCCCL 10 |
| Assault of a Family Member as a Second Offender | Case dismissed on 01/06/2021. Client accused of striking his live in girlfriend while both were drunk. Client had a prior family violence case against the same girlfriend. | 230th |
| 2020 CASE RESULTS | ||
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 12/31/2020. Client was accused of family violence against his wife. | HCCCL 16 |
| Fraudulent Possession of ID Info | Case dismissed on 12/30/2020. Client was accused of possessing ID cards of several different people with the intent to commit fraud. | 337th |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 11/04/2020. Client was at least the 4th or 5th man accused of family violence in two different counties by a mentally unstable nympho that goes from failed sexual relationship to failed sexual relationship. When she’s bored with one guy, she seduces a new guy. She then accuses the first guy of family violence and gets a protective order in order to get him out of the picture. My client was falsely accused and the only male victim willing to fight his case at trial. | HCCCL 1 |
| Aggravated Assault | Case dismissed by Grand Jury on 10/30/2020. Client and his neighbors were tormented for years by an alcoholic neighbor contractor who invited his workers over every Saturday night to get their paychecks and to stay and drink outside for hours on end. The workers blocked driveways, urinated and threw beer bottles in yards. Client asked the contractor to not allow his workers to block his driveway. They did anyway. This was the week of the Black Lives Matter protests when police were preoccupied. Client allegedly fired his gun in the air to get the worker’s attention to move his truck. Since that night, the contractor keeps his workers out of the neighborhood. Client stood up for his neighbors and they are all grateful. | 209th |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case dismissed on 10/15/2020. Client, a soldier in the Army, was falsely accused of assault by his girlfriend outside a bar while passing through town. Sullivan got the case dismissed within 4 days of being hired. Client was about to be sent overseas. | HCCCL 16 |
| Aggravated Assault (2 cases) | Cases reduced on 10/06/2020 to misdemeanor Deadly Conduct with one year of deferred adjudication. Client was accused of driving intoxicated in a bar parking lot and striking two pedestrians. | 262nd |
| Motion to Revoke Probation | MRP dismissed on 09/11/2020. Client fell on hard times and stopped reporting in early 2016. Sullivan persuaded the court to allow him to fulfill the requirements of his probation and dismiss the case instead of sending him to jail. | HCCCL 4 |
| Aggravated Assault | Case reduced on 09/04/2020 to misdemeanor Assault with 6 months of pretrial diversion right before trial setting. Client, a 14 year old girl, stabbed another girl in the arm and thigh in self defense after she was about to be jumped for a second time that day. | 314th |
| Assault Family Member by Choking | Case dismissed on 08/20/2020. Client was accused of choking his wife during an argument. The DA assigned to the case failed to present the defense packet to the grand jury, but then the next DA agreed to do the right thing and dismissed the case. | 174th |
| Assault of a Family Member as a second offender (2 cases) | Cases dismissed by the Grand Jury on 07/30/2020. Client was accused of attacking his two brothers. His case was enhanced with two prior family violence convictions. | 263rd |
| Burglary of a Building | Case dismissed on 07/21/2020. Client was accused of breaking into a pool house and stealing tools. On the first court setting, Sullivan persuaded the judge to find no probable cause client committed the offense. | 178th |
| Interfering with Public Duties | Case dismissed on 06/26/2020, the first setting. Sullivan persuaded the judge to find no probable cause client committed the offense and the DA dismissed it. | HCCCL 16 |
| Assault Family Member | Case dismissed on 06/24/2020. Client accused of slapping his wife on two different occasions. | HCCCL 11 |
| Evading Detention | Case dismissed on 03/18/2020. Client was accused of running from the police. | HCCCL 16 |
| Theft | Case dismissed on 03/13/2020. Client was accused of shoplifting. | HCCCL 6 |
| Hindering Apprehension | Case dismissed on 03/05/2020, the first setting. Sullivan persuaded the judge to find no probable cause client committed the offense and the DA dismissed it. | HCCCL 14 |
| Aggravated Assault Family Member | After a punishment hearing on 02/27/2020, Sullivan persuaded the judge to grant deferred adjudication. Client accused of injuring his wife with fire while intoxicated. The DA’s best offer was 4 years TDC. | 337th |
| Assault of a Police Officer | Case dismissed on 01/27/2020. Client accused of kicking a policeman. | 177th |
| Assault Family Member by Choking | Case dismissed on 01/24/2020. Client accused of choking his then girlfriend. | 185th |
| Aggravated Robbery | At a PSI Hearing on 01/22/2020, judge granted deferred adjudication. The DA only offered prison time. | 248th |
| Burglary of a Habitation | At a Disposition hearing on 01/21/2020, juvenile client received deferred prosecution on the Burglary charge, and received an extension of the deferred he was already on for Terroristic Threat. | 315th |
| Assault of a Police Officer | Case dismissed on 01/08/2020. Juvenile client accused of striking a policewoman. | 314th |
| 2019 CASE RESULTS | ||
| Aggravated Assault Family Member | Case Dismissed by the Grand Jury on 12/16/2019. Client accused of striking her fiancée in the nose, resulting in him needing nasal surgery. | 262nd |
| Assault Family Member | Case Dismissed on 12/04/2019. Client accused of slapping his wife several times. | HCCCL 12 |
| Assault | Case Dismissed on 11/11/2019. Client accused of attacking a classmate at her high school. | HCCCL 16 |
| Assault Family Member | Case Dismissed on 11/07/2019. Client accused of striking her aunt in the face several times after her aunt shot her in the thigh with a shotgun. | HCCCL 12 |
| Indecent Exposure | Case Dismissed on 11/07/2019. Client worked as cable guy and was accused of exposing himself to a female customer. | HCCCL 12 |
| Motion to Adjudicate on Assault of a Peace Officer and Retaliation | Probation reinstated on 11/06/2019 after client absconded for over 4 months. | 178th |
| PCS with intent to deliver 4-200g and Motion to Adjudicate on PCS PG1 1-4g | Probation case dismissed outright on 11/06/2019 and client received 4 years deferred on new 1st degree felony drug case. Sullivan proved that his client’s original case was tainted by ex-HPD narcotics officer Gerald Goines’ participation. Goines is currently charged with 2 counts of murder for lying to obtain a “no knock” warrant which led to the deaths of two citizens. | 179th |
| Burglary of a Habitation with intent to commit Aggravated Assault | Case reduced to Burglary of a Habitation and client received 5 years deferred adjudication at PSI hearing on 11/04/2019. | 176th |
| Assault Family Member | Case Dismissed on 10/16/2019. Client accused of slapping his wife several times. | HCCCL 4 |
| Assault Family Member | Case Dismissed on 10/16/2019. Client accused of striking his girlfriend in the leg with a metal object. | HCCCL 16 |
| Aggravated Assault Family Member | Case reduced to misdemeanor Terroristic Threat of a Family Member with 1 year deferred adjudication on 10/08/2019. Client threatened to kill his girlfriend. | 228th |
| Assault | Case Dismissed on 10/02/2018. Client accused of punching a physician assistant at CVS Pharmacy. | HCCCL 7 |
| Assault Family Member | Case Dismissed on 09/23/2019. Client accused of pushing his wife down causing her to strike the back of her head on tile flooring. | HCCCL 12 |
| Assault Family Member | Case Dismissed on 09/18/2019. Client accused of striking his wife. | HCCCL 3 |
| Injury to the Elderly | Case Reduced to misdemeanor Assault Family Member with credit for time served in jail on 09/11/2019. Client injured his mother. | 209th |
| Assault Family Member | Case Dismissed on 08/21/2019. Client accused of striking his girlfriend with his hand. | HCCCL 10 |
| Terroristic Threat | Case Dismissed on 08/13/2019. Client accused of threatening his baby mama’s new boyfriend. | HCCCL 15 |
| Criminal Mischief | Case Dismissed on 08/13/2019. Client accused of damaging the car of his baby mama’s new boyfriend. | HCCCL 15 |
| Terroristic Threat | Case Dismissed on 08/13/2019. Client accused of threatening his baby’s mama. | HCCCL 15 |
| Assault Family Member | Case Dismissed on 08/06/2019. Client was accused of striking his girlfriend with his hand. | HCCCL 9 |
| Aggravated Assault with Deadly Weapon | Case reduced to misdemeanor Assault with time served on 07/18/2019. Client accused of threatening a security guard with his vehicle. | 262nd |
| PCS 1-4g | Case Dismissed on 06/26/2019. Client accused of drug possession. | 182nd |
| Carrying a Handgun in Motor Vehicle | Case Dismissed on 06/26/2019. Client accused of carrying a handgun in his car while also possessing drugs. | HCCCL 5 |
| Assault | Case Dismissed on 06/20/2019. Client accused of hitting another fan at a soccer game. | HCCCL 5 |
| Assault Family Member | Case Dismissed on 06/12/2019. Client accused of striking her boyfriend. | HCCCL 1 |
| Aggravated Robbery with Deadly Weapon | Case Dismissed on 06/06/2019. Client was accused of being involved in a bank robbery. | 248th |
| Assault Family Member | Case Dismissed on 05/23/2019. Client accused of striking his father with his hand. | HCCCL 9 |
| Assault Family Member | Found Not Guilty at Jury Trial on 05/15/2019. Client, an Army veteran that served in Afghanistan, and his friend accused of going to his older brother’s apartment early in the morning, breaking in, dragging him outside and attacking him in the driveway. His brother’s pregnant girlfriend claimed she was also injured. After the not guilty, his friend’s assault charge was dismissed. | HCCCL 3 |
| Sexual Assault of Child 14-17 | At PSI Hearing on 05/08/2019, judge granted deferred adjudication. Client confessed to having sex with a 16 year old girl. The DA’s best offer was 13 years TDC. | 263rd |
| Racing on Highway | Case Dismissed on 04/29/2019. Client accused of racing another car on a public roadway. | HCCCL 11 |
| Criminal Mischief | Case Dismissed on 04/24/2019. Client accused of damaging a person’s vehicle. | HCCCL 12 |
| Fraud | Case Dismissed on 04/10/2019. Client accused of switching price tags on clothing for sale. | HCCCL 5 |
| Possession of Marijuana | Case Dismissed on 04/04/2019. | HCCCL 8 |
| Theft | Case Dismissed on 03/21/2019. Client accused of stealing over $2500 from her employer. | 232nd |
| Assault Family Member | Case Dismissed on 03/06/2019. Client accused of pushing his girlfriend with his hand. | HCCCL 6 |
| Aggravated Assault with Deadly Weapon | Case Dismissed by the Grand Jury on 03/01/2019. Client accused of threatening another guy with his handgun outside a bar. | 184th |
| Failure to Stop and Give Information | Case Dismissed on 02/12/2019. Client accused of causing an accident and leaving the scene. | HCCCL 5 |
| Assault Family Member | Case Dismissed on 02/12/2019. Client accused of striking and pushing his girlfriend with his hand. | HCCCL 8 |
| Criminal Trespass to a Habitation | Case Dismissed on 02/05/2019. Client accused of entering wrong house and passing out on their sofa while intoxicated. | HCCCL 11 |
| Assault Family Member | Case Dismissed on 01/25/2019. Client accused of striking his wife with his hand. | HCCCL 10 |
| Assault | Case Dismissed on 01/25/2019. Client accused of striking another high school student after that student harassed a female friend in class. | HCCCL 14 |
| 2018 CASE RESULTS | ||
| Interfering with Emergency Telephone Call | Case Dismissed on 12/19/2018. Client accused of stopping girlfriend from calling 911. | HCCCL 6 |
| Interfering with Duties of Public Servant | Case Dismissed on 12/14/2018. Client was intoxicated at a restaurant and disobeyed police officer’s instructions. | HCCCL 8 |
| Assault Family Member by Choking | Case Dismissed by Grand Jury on 12/14/2018. Client was attacked by his baby’s mama and defended himself. | 179th |
| Assault | Case Dismissed on 12/07/2018. Client accused of attacking an AT&T technician that peered over her balcony. | HCCCL 15 |
| Assault | Case Dismissed on 11/30/2018. Client accused of hitting his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend and baby’s papa. | HCCCL 9 |
| Aggravated Assault with Deadly Weapon | Case Dismissed by Grand Jury on 11/26/2018. Client was accused of “road rage” by ramming complainant’s car through an intersection with his truck, however the complainant had pulled a gun on the accused prior to that. | 185th |
| Assault Family Member with Prior Conviction | Case Dismissed on 11/16/2018. Client was accused of slapping her boyfriend. | 183rd |
| Possession of Marijuana | Case Dismissed on 11/14/2018. Client accused of possessing weed. | HCCCL 15 |
| Assault Family Member | Case Dismissed on 09/26/2018. Client accused of striking his wife with his hand. | HCCCL 16 |
| Indecency with a Child | Case reduced to Indecency with a Child by Exposure on 09/13/2018. Client confessed to touching his niece when he was 19. | 337th |
| Criminal Mischief | Case Dismissed on 08/30/2018. Client accused of damaging a stranger’s vehicle outside a bar. | HCCCL 6 |
| Injury to a Child | Case Dismissed on 08/20/2018. Client was accused of injuring his son outside a grocery store. | 338th |
| Theft | Case Dismissed on 08/13/2018. Client accused of retail theft. | HCCCL 15 |
| Assault | Case Dismissed on 07/25/2018. Client accused of striking her girlfriend in the face with a closed fist. | HCCCL 1 |
| Assault Family Member by Choking | Case Dismissed on 07/10/2018. Client accused of choking his girlfriend. | 176th |
| Injury to a Child | Case Dismissed by Grand Jury on 06/25/2018. Client used reasonable discipline against her 14 year old daughter after the girl stole her car for the second time. | 184th |
| Aggravated Assault Family Member | Case Dismissed on 05/29/2018. Client accused of running over her boyfriend. | 178th |
| Public Lewdness | Case Dismissed on 05/24/2018. Client accused of sexual activity with his girlfriend in school. | HCCCL 11 |
| Aggravated Assault Family Member | Case Dismissed on 04/24/2018. Client accused of threatening to kill his wife and family with a firearm. | 178th |
| Assault | Case Dismissed on 04/19/2018. Client accused of striking another guy at a party. | HCCCL 7 |
| PCS | Case Dismissed on 03/23/2018. Client accused of unlawfully possessing Tramadol. | HCCCL 7 |
| Possession of Marijuana 4oz – 5lbs | Case Dismissed on 03/21/2018. Client accused of possessing over 4 oz of weed. | 179th |
| PCS | Case Dismissed on 03/19/2018. Client accused of possessing less than 1g of methamphetamine. | 232nd |
| Interfering with Duties of Public Servant | Case Dismissed on 03/08/2018. Client accused of interfering with a criminal investigation. | HCCCL 1 |
| Aggravated Assault Family Member | Case reduced to misdemeanor Deadly Conduct on 02/07/2018. Client accused of threatening his baby’s mama with an AR-15. | 351st |
| Failure to ID to Police Officer | Case Dismissed on 01/26/2018. Client accused of lying to police about his name. | HCCCL 8 |
| Burglary of a Motor Vehicle | Case Dismissed on 01/23/2018. Client accused of breaking into a neighbor’s vehicle at nighttime. | HCCCL 10 |
| Unlawfully Carrying a Weapon | Case Dismissed on 01/10/2018. Client accused of carrying a firearm in his vehicle. | HCCCL 13 |
| 2017 CASE RESULTS | ||
| Arson | Case Dismissed by the Grand Jury on 11/28/2017. Client accused of setting a fire in his garage, however he was suffering an epileptic seizure at the time. Note: It is extremely rare that epilepsy has been used successfully in criminal defense. | 185th |
| Theft | Case Dismissed on 11/20/2017. Client accused of retail theft. | HCCCL 2 |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case Dismissed on 10/23/2017. Client accused of striking his girlfriend with his hand. | HCCCL 8 |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case Dismissed on 10/18/2017. Client accused of striking his wife in the face with his hand. | HCCCL 6 |
| Unlawfully Carrying of a Weapon | Case Dismissed on 08/21/2017. Client accused of unlawfully carrying a handgun. | HCCCL 6 |
| Possession of Marijuana | Case Dismissed on 08/21/2017. Client accused of possessing weed. | HCCCL 6 |
| Disarming of a Police Officer | Case Dismissed on 08/03/2017. Client accused of forcibly taking a stun gun away from the officer. | 208th |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case Dismissed on 06/07/2017. Client accused of striking her boyfriend with her hand. | HCCCL 10 |
| Theft | Case Dismissed on 05/22/2017. Client accused of stealing between $750-2500 from his employer. | HCCCL 7 |
| Failure to Stop and Give Information | Case Dismissed on 05/06/2017. Client accused of fleeing the scene of an accident. | HCCCL 9 |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case Dismissed on 05/03/2017. Client accused of grabbing his girlfriend’s jaw with his hand. | HCCCL 4 |
| False Report | Case Dismissed on 04/25/2017. Client accused of calling 911, pretending to be a college coed who had been raped. | HCCCL 1 |
| Criminal Mischief | Case Dismissed on 04/19/2017. Client accused of kicking a guy’s truck with his foot. | HCCCL 9 |
| Assault of a Family Member by Choking | Case Dismissed by the Grand Jury on 03/09/2017. Client accused of choking his girlfriend. | 263rd |
| Assault of a Family Member by Choking | Case Dismissed by the Grand Jury on 02/23/2017. Client accused of choking his wife. | 182nd |
| Assault of a Family Member | Case Dismissed on 02/10/2017. Client accused of striking his wife with a picture frame. | HCCCL 15 |
| Evade by Motor Vehicle | Case Dismissed on 02/03/2017. Client accused of fleeing from the police. | 177th |
| Unlawful Carrying of a Weapon | Case Dismissed on 02/03/2017. Client accused of unlawfully carrying a handgun. | HCCCL 13 |
