The Medlin Law Firm - Gary Medlin

Our client was charged with the sexual assault of a child that he met online. The client was adamant that the girl didn’t tell him her age and that everything was consensual, therefore, he was innocent. Also, the client wanted the best defense possible as he was not guilty of the crime. The detective interviewed the complaining witness and filed the case with the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office. The case was indicted by the grand jury and the district attorney was wanting a plea deal that would require the client to register as a sex offender for life. After [...]

Our client, a 25-year-old male, was charged with DWI with BAC over .15 with an open container. The police officer was called out to investigate an intoxicated driver. Client was pulled over for speeding, failure to maintain single lane, and weaving. Officer smelled alcohol on our client and said he had bloodshot watery eyes & really thick-tongued speech. After getting the client out of the car they found an open container of distilled wine in the pocket of the passenger seat. The officer pulled our client out to perform the field sobriety tests. Client failed all three of the [...]

Our client was only 30 years old and arrested for DWI-2nd in Dallas County. She was detained in a parking lot outside of a bar at 2:30 a.m. After failing the field sobriety tests, the police officer got a warrant for her blood. The results were .32. Four times the legal limit! There was a lot on the line for our client being so young and facing a second conviction. The case was put on hold because of COVID-19. After waiting a year for her day in court, Matt was able to argue and convince the Judge that the stop [...]

Our client was accused of stealing her mother’s identity and opening up several credit cards in her name. She ended up being accused of 5 criminal charges. Our client’s mother is an elderly woman who the state thought was a credible witness and would be sympathetic to a jury. The client works for the IRS and has built a career in accounting that required government clearance to access certain information. Any guilty plea would have cost our client her job & retirement. While the case was pending, we went through hundreds of pages of credit card records, several witness interviews, [...]

Our client and his friend were out one night drinking at a bar. As they were leaving, our client was trying to stop his friend from getting into a fight so he kept pulling him back. This caught the attention of the officers and they approached them to talk. Our client kept interjecting, which irritated the officer and he decided to arrest him for public intoxication. When being handcuffed, our client kept asking why he was being arrested and began to slightly pull away. The officers then charged him with resisting search or transport. After discussing the case with the DA [...]

Our client decided to take his employer’s car home during his lunch break and unfortunately on the way back he had a minor accident. He did not have permission from his employer to take the car so he was charged with a State Jail Felony of Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle. And on top of the felony charge, he was also hit with an ICE/Immigration hold. Our client had been in the United States since he was a child so he did not want to get deported. I immediately contacted his employer to get his position on what he [...]

Our client was seen by Crowley Police Officers leaving a bar and subsequently weaving between his lane of traffic. Our client was pulled over for failing to maintain a single lane. He admitted to having 5 alcoholic beverages. Once ordered out of the vehicle, our client performed 3 roadside field sobriety tests; failing two of them and passing one. He was then arrested and charged with Driving While Intoxicated (DWI). Our client consented to having his blood drawn. His test came back as a .14 blood alcohol concentration (BAC). During cross examination of the State’s chief forensic toxicologist, our attorney was [...]

Our client came in contact with Keller Police Officers at a party. The police officers watched her drive away and then later pulled her over for suspension of underage drinking. Officers quickly turned the detention into a DWI investigation. Our client failed all three field sobriety tests. During trial, the Police Officers admitted on the stand that if it wasn’t for the .11 breath test, they would have only given our client a Driving Under the Influence (DUI) ticket. Our attorney emphasized issues with the breath test machine and was able to convince the jury that the .11 breath [...]

Our client was walking with her friend across the street and were stopped by an Arlington Police Officer. He came in contact with her while she was sitting in her car. The officer ordered her out of the vehicle and arrested her for the jaywalking violation. Our client asked the officer if he would retrieve her prescription medication out of her car so she could take it with her to jail. The officer searched our client’s vehicle for the prescription drugs and found a single white pill not inside a prescription bottle. He then charged our client with possession of a [...]

Our client side-swiped another vehicle in front of a police car, then was attempting to pull over to a safe location, and the Fort Worth police officer accused her of failing to stop at an accident. Once pulled over, the police officer asked her if she had been drinking. She admitted to 5 drinks. She was asked to step out of the vehicle and performed four roadside field sobriety tests. She failed all four tests. She refused to provide a blood alcohol specimen. A warrant was issued for her blood sample. The sample came back as .17 (which is over [...]