Deandra Grant Law - Criminal & DWI Defense Austin

08/20/2026

08/19/2026

A Queens judge kept his law practice running through a twice-convicted felon who posed as a lawyer in court. Why the Commission ordered his removal.

08/19/2026

A Texas justice of the peace used a criminal summons, arrest warning included, to pull a citizen into an unfiled dispute. Why she was reprimanded.

08/14/2026

08/13/2026

When an injured victim later dies, Texas can upgrade an aggravated assault to murder without any new act by the accused. Here is how the charge escalates, what it does to bond and sentencing exposure, and why early defense counsel matters most before it happens.

08/13/2026

A newly disclosed vulnerability in forensic DNA software is a reminder that “DNA evidence” is really digital data, subject to error and, in theory, manipulation. Here is what that means, and why a Texas defense should demand the lab’s raw files and audit trails.

08/13/2026

A lay guide to how the insanity defense actually works, why admitting the act is not the same as admitting guilt, and how Texas's insanity standard compares with the one being applied in the Lindsay Clancy trial in Massachusetts.

08/13/2026

It took six years, 22 case numbers, and a threat of removal for the State Commission on Judicial Conduct to land on its mildest public sanction against an El Paso district judge.

08/13/2026

A Pleasanton justice of the peace was publicly admonished after telling a sexually explicit joke to jail staff, including a female officer he gestured toward as he told it.