Hunt County Criminal Defense Attorney

Charge categories handled in Hunt County

The Hunt County District Attorney’s Office prosecutes the full Texas charge spectrum filed from Hunt County arrests. Each major category has its own defense framework, statutory analysis, and procedural workflow:

• DWI (Tex. Penal Code § 49.04) — Class B (BAC < 0.15) or Class A (BAC ≥ 0.15) first offense; second-offense Class A; felony DWI on third or DWI-with-child enhancement. ALR hearing required within 15 days under Tex. Transp. Code § 524.031.
• Drug possession (Tex. Health & Safety Code § 481) — Penalty Group classification drives punishment range. Possession with intent to distribute under § 481.112 elevates one class.
• Assault and family violence (Tex. Penal Code § 22.01) — Class A misdemeanor; Class A family-violence assault adds a federal firearms ban under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9). Continuous family violence under § 25.11 is a third-degree felony.
• Theft (Tex. Penal Code § 31.03) — aggregated under § 31.09, value tiers from Class C (under $100) to first-degree felony ($300,000+).
• Weapons offenses (Tex. Penal Code Ch. 46) — UCW under § 46.02, felon-in-possession under federal § 922(g)(1), prohibited weapons under § 46.05.
• Sex offenses (Tex. Penal Code Ch. 21-22) — sexual assault is a second-degree felony; aggravated sexual assault is a first-degree; both trigger Tex. Code Crim. Proc. ch. 62 registration.

The Hunt County criminal court infrastructure

Hunt County criminal cases are filed and tried at the Hunt County Courthouse at 2507 Lee Street in Greenville. Felony cases go to one of the two district courts — the 196th or the 354th — while Class A and Class B misdemeanors are heard in County Court at Law No. 1 or No. 2, and Class C fine-only matters stay in the justice-of-the-peace and municipal courts. Pretrial detention before bond is posted is at the Hunt County Detention Center, 2801 Stuart Street in Greenville, which the Hunt County Sheriff’s Office operates along with service of capias warrants.

The Hunt County District Attorney’s Office is the prosecuting authority for state-court criminal matters in Hunt County. Hunt County Attorney’s Office handles select misdemeanor categories. Felony prosecutions are routed to a felony-trial division within the District Attorney’s Office; misdemeanor prosecutions to a misdemeanor-trial division. Each division has its own intake practice, plea-evaluation framework, and trial-preparation tempo. We have current working knowledge of all divisions.

The defense workflow for a Hunt County case

Once you retain the firm, the case proceeds on a defined workflow:

1. Bond and pretrial release. If you are in custody, we file an emergency bond motion under Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 17.15 in the trial court. We coordinate with the bondsman or pursue a PR bond where eligible. We respond to any pending capias warrant.
2. Discovery demand. Within 14 days of arraignment, we file the Michael Morton Act discovery demand under Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 39.14. We obtain the offense report, body-cam video, in-car video, lab reports, dispatch tape, and prior-call records.
3. Investigation and motion practice. We review the discovery for Fourth Amendment suppression issues, chain-of-custody breaks, Brady-and-Giglio disclosure issues, and procedural defects. We draft motions to suppress, motions in limine, and motions to dismiss as the record supports.
4. Plea negotiation. We engage the Hunt County District Attorney’s Office on plea options — pretrial diversion (where the county runs such a program), deferred adjudication, charge reduction, or favorable sentencing. Negotiation tempo varies by county and division.
5. Trial preparation or disposition. If the case resolves by plea, we document the plea agreement and represent you at the plea hearing. If the case proceeds to trial, we prepare voir dire, opening statement, cross-examination outlines, defense case-in-chief, and closing argument.
6. Post-disposition relief. If the case ends favorably, we calendar the expunction or non-disclosure petition. If a sentence is imposed, we file notice of appeal within 30 days under Tex. R. App. P. 26.2(a) where appellate review is appropriate.

Engagement and fee structure

The firm operates on a flat-fee structure for criminal-defense engagements. At the free initial consultation (30-45 minutes, conducted by one of the founding partners), we assess the case posture, identify the time-sensitive deadlines, and quote a flat fee in writing if we are the right firm for the matter. The flat fee covers the entire defense through final disposition or trial in chief on the underlying charge.

We do not bill criminal-defense matters hourly because the State controls the case pace and hourly billing creates the wrong incentives. Appeals, post-conviction relief, and unrelated ancillary matters are scoped separately.

Free Hunt County consultation

Direct to attorney 24/7. Flat-fee representation, scoped in writing at the consult.

What a Hunt County criminal-defense attorney actually does

Hiring a criminal-defense attorney is not like hiring a notary or filing a routine form; it means handing over the strategic calls on charges, plea options, pretrial motions, evidence challenges, and, if it comes to that, trial. In a Hunt County case the work usually starts with the paper and the video — the offense report, body-worn and dash-camera footage, Greenville Police Department or Sheriff’s Office intake records, and any laboratory analysis of tested substances. Where a stop or search is in play, counsel pins down the precise basis for the encounter (a traffic infraction, a community-caretaking rationale, a corroborated tip, or consent) and tests whether each escalation was actually justified. And because the District Attorney’s Office controls the case, the defense also reads how that office tends to value the specific charge before the first plea conversation ever happens.

Motion practice in Hunt County courts

A great deal of Hunt County defense work happens on paper, through motions filed in the 196th or 354th District Court or in one of the county courts at law long before a case reaches a jury. The common ones include a motion to suppress under Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 38.23 and the Fourth Amendment, a motion in limine on identity or prior-conviction evidence, a motion to reveal a confidential informant, a motion to compel discovery under the Michael Morton Act (Article 39.14), a motion for change of venue where pretrial publicity is heavy, and a motion to dismiss for a speedy-trial violation under Article 32A.02. Each one is measured against the actual record and against how a particular Greenville judge tends to rule — whether the court holds a full evidentiary suppression hearing or folds the question into the trial itself.

Sentencing, probation, and post-disposition relief

Most Hunt County cases end in a plea rather than a trial, and at that point a defense lawyer’s work turns from trial readiness to sentencing advocacy — building the mitigation record and pressing for charge concessions, deferred adjudication, or supervision terms tied to real rehabilitation rather than maximum control. The mitigating facts that carry weight in Greenville are usually local ones: steady work with an area employer, a job or studies at East Texas A&M University in Commerce, family responsibilities across the county, treatment already underway, restitution already paid. After judgment, counsel handles probation-condition changes under Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 42A.701, motions for early termination, expunction or non-disclosure petitions where the case qualifies, and, in the right circumstances, writ-of-habeas-corpus litigation aimed at a fundamental defect in the conviction.

L and L Law Group represents clients across Hunt County in felony and misdemeanor matters, with a caseload weighted toward DWI, drug, assault, theft, sex-offense, and weapons cases. Our appearances run through the Greenville courthouse — the 196th and 354th District Courts and County Court at Law No. 1 and No. 2 — where founding partners Reggie and Njeri London handle each retained matter personally.

Two separate offices prosecute crime in Hunt County, and knowing which one holds a case shapes the defense from day one. The Hunt County District Attorney’s Office carries the felonies and the contested, higher-level misdemeanors, taking them into the 196th and 354th District Courts and, for misdemeanors, the county courts at law. A separate Hunt County Attorney’s Office handles other misdemeanor categories. Below both sit the justice-of-the-peace and municipal courts, which dispose of Class C fine-only citations. The practical consequence is that two charges arising from the same incident — say a felony and a related misdemeanor — can be handled by different prosecutors on different tracks, and coordinating the defense across them, rather than treating each in isolation, is part of the work. That coordination also affects sentencing exposure, because how one office resolves its charge can constrain or open what the other will accept. A lawyer who appears regularly in Greenville knows which office to approach on which question and how each tends to evaluate the charges it owns.

From arrest to disposition, a Hunt County case tends to follow a recognizable arc even though the details differ by charge. It opens at the Hunt County Detention Center with booking and the magistrate’s warnings, moves to an initial setting at the courthouse once the case is filed, and then runs through a stretch of announcement and pretrial settings where discovery is exchanged and motions are argued. Most cases resolve somewhere in that pretrial stretch — by dismissal, diversion, reduction, or a negotiated plea — while a smaller number go to trial in the district court or the county court at law that owns them. The calendar between those milestones is set by the court, not the defense, which is exactly why early involvement matters: the deadlines for the Article 39.14 discovery demand, for suppression motions, and for the Administrative License Revocation request in a DWI all run from the front of the case, not the end. Counsel who tracks those clocks from the first week keeps options open that a late start can quietly foreclose.