Irving Criminal Defense Lawyers
Direct-to-attorney criminal defense for Irving arrests and Dallas County criminal-court matters. Co-founders Reggie and Njeri London handle every retained case personally — from arraignment through trial or appeal — from our Frisco office, 25 miles from Irving.
L and L Law Group represents clients arrested in Irving, Texas and clients facing charges in the Frank Crowley Courts Building on the full Texas Penal Code and Health & Safety Code spectrum. Founding partners Reggie London (Texas Bar No. 24043514, former Dallas County Assistant District Attorney) and Njeri London (Texas Bar No. 24043266, admitted TXND, TXED, 5th Circuit) personally handle every Irving matter. Our office is in Frisco, 25 miles from Irving (30 minutes). Free 24/7 consultation: (972) 370-5060.
Common Irving criminal charges we defend
Two people arrested in Irving on the same night can be booked into the same building and still end up on completely different clocks. The Irving City Jail operates inside the Irving Criminal Justice Center at 305 N. O’Connor Road, and the city splits magistration in two. It happens daily at 9 a.m. for people in custody on Irving Class C misdemeanor charges. Individuals in custody on higher-level charges, meaning Class B misdemeanors and above, are instead subject to the arraignment schedule determined by Dallas County. One of those timetables belongs to the city. The other one does not, and nobody in Irving can move it.
Same building, two timetables
| Track | Irving Class C misdemeanor | Class B misdemeanor and above |
|---|---|---|
| Who controls the schedule | City of Irving | Dallas County |
| Magistration | Daily at 9 a.m. | On the arraignment schedule Dallas County determines |
| Court | Irving Municipal Court | One of eleven County Criminal Courts, or one of seventeen felony benches |
| Held where | Irving City Jail, 305 N. O’Connor Road | The city directs families to the Dallas County jail, 111 West Commerce Street |
| Distance from the arrest | Same building | About twelve miles, in Dallas |
The gap has a practical shape. The Irving jail runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, holding pretrial individuals and people serving time assessed on misdemeanor Irving Municipal Court cases, with a maximum of 172 adult prisoners and a separate holding area for detained juveniles. The 9 a.m. schedule is the city’s to answer for. The county’s is not. Until that first appearance happens there is generally no bond figure for anyone to post, which is why the wait reads to a family as nothing happening when the case has in fact been handed to a much larger system. The jail publishes two lines, (972) 721-2625 and (972) 721-3608.
What Irving keeps
The Irving Municipal Court sits in the same building, and its jurisdiction is bounded: Class C misdemeanor criminal offenses, including traffic and city ordinance violations, that occur in Irving. It is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and closed on city holidays, with a main line of (972) 721-2451, a separate Juvenile Services line at (972) 721-3601 and a Warrants and Compliance line at (972) 721-2671. The volume is real: the court reports 35,747 incoming calls in FY24 for a city of roughly 257,000 people. It also publishes an Alternative Adult Programs (Hardships) track alongside its dismissal and docket pages, and what that track covers is worth confirming with the court directly rather than assuming.
What Dallas County takes
Above Class C, the case leaves the city. Irving is a single-county city for criminal filing: it appears on Dallas County’s official list of cities in Dallas County and does not appear on Tarrant County’s official list of cities, towns and municipalities, unlike neighboring Grand Prairie and Grapevine. Every Irving felony and Class A or B misdemeanor therefore files into one system. Class A and Class B misdemeanors go to one of eleven Dallas County Criminal Courts, numbered 1 through 11. Felonies go to the Frank Crowley Courts Building, where the county concentrates seventeen felony benches: Criminal District Courts No. 1 through No. 7 plus the 194th, 195th, 203rd, 204th, 265th, 282nd, 283rd, 291st, 292nd and 363rd District Courts, along with Auxiliary Courts and Felony Court Magistrates.
The charge types themselves are familiar: impaired driving, drug possession, theft, assault including allegations involving a family or household member, weapons allegations, and juvenile matters that begin at the Criminal Justice Center. What changes between them is rarely the name on the paperwork. It is the class, and the class decides the timetable, the prosecutor and the building. You can review the full range of charges we handle and match yours to the track above.
The second clock
Dallas County adds a deadline of its own, and this one closes quietly. Referrals to the District Attorney’s felony Pre-Trial Intervention agreement, run through the Restorative Justice Division, must be submitted either before indictment or within 120 days of indictment, and the program targets first-time, non-violent offenders. The Dallas County Criminal Justice Department administers a validated Risk Needs Assessment at no cost to the defendant, and the agreement that follows runs three, six or twelve months. On successful completion the charge is dismissed and the participant becomes eligible to apply for expunction. Referral forms are emailed to JailDiversion@dallascounty.org or delivered in person on the 8th floor. The misdemeanor track is separate and starts with the assistant district attorney assigned to your court.
Beyond intervention agreements, the county operates pre-trial specialty courts with narrow doors. DIVERT Court is the adult drug court for a first-time non-aggravated felony offender with a substance use disorder diagnosis. AIM Court takes 17 to 24 year olds on a first-time non-aggravated felony. MHJD is the mental health jail diversion court and carries both felony and misdemeanor dockets, SET Court covers stabilization, engagement and transition, and STAR Court serves felony prostitution cases and people who may have been commercially sexually exploited. The Mental Health Division draws one line worth knowing in advance: where substance use is the primary issue, a defendant may be routed to a diversion program outside that division even though a mental health diagnosis exists.
Which of those doors is open depends on the class, the history and how much of the county’s calendar has already run. The fixed point is the split you started with: an Irving Class C is on the city’s 9 a.m. schedule, and everything above it is on Dallas County’s. Establish which side of that line the paperwork puts you on before making any other decision about the case.
Irving criminal defense FAQs
My brother and his friend were arrested in Irving the same night. Why has only one of them seen a magistrate?
Because Irving runs magistration on two schedules out of one building. The city sets magistration daily at 9 a.m. for people in custody on Irving Class C misdemeanor charges. Anyone in custody on higher-level charges, meaning Class B misdemeanors and above, is subject to the arraignment schedule determined by Dallas County instead. Same night, same jail, two different authorities controlling the timing. Before assuming something has gone wrong, establish which class each charge was filed at, because that answer decides who you should be calling and which schedule actually governs.
Is my relative still at the Irving city jail or has he been moved to Dallas County?
The Irving City Jail runs 24 hours a day inside the Criminal Justice Center at 305 N. O’Connor Road, with a maximum capacity of 172 adult prisoners and a separate holding area for detained juveniles. It holds pretrial individuals and people serving time assessed on misdemeanor Irving Municipal Court cases. For county-level custody, the city directs families to the Dallas County jail at 111 West Commerce Street in Dallas. Irving publishes two jail lines, (972) 721-2625 and (972) 721-3608. Confirm which building actually has the person before anyone drives anywhere with bond money.
When can I visit someone being held in the Irving city jail?
Sunday, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. That is the visitation window Irving publishes for its city jail, and it is a single two-hour block once a week rather than a daily schedule. The practical effect is that someone booked in early in the week may have no in-person visit available for days, so plan around phone contact and around counsel rather than around visitation. If the charge is Class B or above and custody has shifted to Dallas County, Irving’s window stops being the relevant one entirely and you need the county’s rules.
How does my family get my phone and wallet back from the Irving property room?
The Property Room is in the same building as the jail and the municipal court at 305 N. O’Connor Road, open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Irving releases prisoner property only after the prisoner grants written permission, so a relative cannot simply show identification and collect it. That written permission is the step families miss and then repeat the trip for. Property-room questions go to 972-721-2688. Because the room keeps business hours while the jail does not, a weekend arrest usually pushes the property question to Monday.
Are the Irving police station, the city jail and the municipal court really all at one address?
Yes. Irving consolidates police administration, the city jail and the Irving Municipal Court in the Irving Criminal Justice Center at 305 N. O’Connor Road, with the Property Room in the same building. Irving police also operate a North Station at 5992 Riverside Blvd. That consolidation is genuinely convenient for a Class C matter that starts and finishes in Irving. It is misleading for anything above Class C, because the prosecutor, the courts and the jail for those cases sit about twelve miles away in Dallas, and none of them run on Irving’s schedule.
Which court hears an Irving felony case?
One of the seventeen felony benches Dallas County concentrates at the Frank Crowley Courts Building. That is Criminal District Courts No. 1 through No. 7 plus the 194th, 195th, 203rd, 204th, 265th, 282nd, 283rd, 291st, 292nd and 363rd District Courts, along with Auxiliary Courts and Felony Court Magistrates. The Dallas County District Attorney’s office is in the same building at 133 N. Riverfront Boulevard, and the county detention facilities sit adjacent to it. Once an Irving felony is filed, the prosecutor, the bench and the jail are all on one campus, and it is not in Irving.
More Irving questions
My Irving charge is a Class A misdemeanor. Where does it go?
To one of eleven Dallas County Criminal Courts, numbered County Criminal Court 1 through County Criminal Court 11. That is a deep misdemeanor bench, and it is also the point at which an Irving case leaves the city altogether. The Irving Municipal Court’s jurisdiction covers Class C misdemeanor criminal offenses, including traffic and city ordinance violations that occur in Irving, and nothing above that. Pinning down the class the case was actually filed at is therefore the first useful thing to do, because it sets both your court and your magistration timetable.
Could an Irving charge end up filed in Tarrant County?
Not according to the two governments’ own lists. Irving appears on Dallas County’s official list of cities in Dallas County, and it does not appear on Tarrant County’s official list of cities, towns and municipalities. For criminal filing purposes Irving is a single-county city, so every Irving felony and Class A or B misdemeanor goes into one system. That is simpler than the position in Grand Prairie or Grapevine, and it means an Irving family is not working out which of two prosecutors received the file before they can do anything useful with the case.
Where does an Irving DWI arrest go, and how quickly?
That turns on the class the charge is filed at, because Irving splits its jail schedule by class rather than by charge name. If the filing is an Irving Class C misdemeanor, magistration runs daily at 9 a.m. If it is a Class B misdemeanor or above, the arraignment schedule is determined by Dallas County and the city does not control the timing. So the first question after an impaired-driving arrest is what class appears on the paperwork, not what the offense is called. Our page on a Texas DWI charge covers what follows from there.
How long do I have to ask for pre-trial intervention on a Dallas County felony?
The window is tighter than most people expect. Referrals to the Dallas County District Attorney’s felony Pre-Trial Intervention program must be submitted either before indictment or within 120 days of indictment, and the program targets first-time, non-violent offenders. The Dallas County Criminal Justice Department runs a validated Risk Needs Assessment at no cost to the defendant, and the resulting agreement runs three, six or twelve months. Referral forms are emailed to JailDiversion@dallascounty.org or delivered in person on the 8th floor. Waiting to see how the case develops can close that door without anyone deciding anything.
Does Dallas County have a drug court, or a program for a young first-time felony defendant?
It operates several pre-trial specialty courts, each with a narrow door. DIVERT Court, for DIVersion and Expedited Rehabilitation and Treatment, is the adult drug court for a first-time non-aggravated felony offender with a substance use disorder diagnosis. AIM Court, for Achieve, Inspire, Motivate, is a youthful offender court for 17 to 24 year olds on a first-time non-aggravated felony case. There is also MHJD for mental health jail diversion, with felony and misdemeanor dockets, SET Court for stabilization, engagement and transition, and STAR Court. The diagnosis and the charge history both matter to eligibility, so gather records early.
Can an Irving case be cleared from my record afterwards?
It depends on how the case ends rather than what it was called at the start. In Dallas County, successful completion of the felony Pre-Trial Intervention agreement results in the charge being dismissed, and the participant is then eligible to apply for expunction. The misdemeanor track runs differently: you return proof of completion to the probation officer, and the assistant district attorney assigned to the court completes and submits the dismissal. Convictions do not open that door. Our Texas expunction and record-clearing page explains which endings qualify for which remedy.
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A serious charge out of Irving stays in Dallas County, which sets the venue from the moment of arrest. Felonies and Class A and B misdemeanors are filed by the Dallas County District Attorney and heard at the Frank Crowley Courts Building, with pretrial custody at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center downtown. So even though an incident may happen out near Las Colinas or along the DFW Airport edge of town, the file, the settings, and the bond decisions all move through the central Dallas County system rather than a courthouse in Irving. Knowing that routing early shapes how we plan for the first appearance and how quickly we can reach the assigned court.
Irving Municipal Court runs on a separate track. It handles Class C, fine-only matters — traffic citations, city-ordinance violations, and similar tickets — and never touches the felony or higher-misdemeanor docket that lands at Frank Crowley. That division matters because what looks like one stop near the Toyota Music Factory or a corporate campus can split into two paths: a city citation resolved locally, and a county charge filed downtown. We sort out which court actually holds each piece before treating any of it as routine, since a missed municipal setting and a missed county setting carry very different consequences.
Enforcement in Irving clusters around its highways and its mix of business, entertainment, and airport traffic. SH-114 and SH-183, the Airport Freeway, feed the airport and the Las Colinas district, while I-635, SH-161, and the President George Bush Turnpike carry heavy commuter and visitor volume. Those corridors see Irving police as well as DPS troopers working the state highways, and the area's corporate campuses, hotels, and event venues draw drivers from well outside the city. That combination produces a steady stream of DWI, traffic-stop, and out-of-town-defendant cases tied to specific stretches of road rather than to any single neighborhood.
For someone charged in Irving, the practical takeaway is that geography and roadway matter as much as the charge itself. Where the stop happened, which agency made it, and whether the matter sits in municipal or county court all shape the timeline and the bond posture. Our team works these cases knowing the Dallas County routing through Frank Crowley, the Las Colinas and airport corridors where stops concentrate, and the difference between a city citation and a county filing. From there we can map out the next steps clearly. To talk through an Irving matter, call us at (972) 370-5060.
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