James G. Sullivan, Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer

08/20/2024

Another day in paradise, and on the way to court to get some justice

08/04/2024

Jelly Roll inspires the despairing and hopeless ones on the wrong side of the law that there is a better way. Jelly was born to a mother addicted to drugs.

The artist known as Jelly Roll is a 39-year-old former rapper whose songs tell of the troubled life he used to lead. He's now one of the biggest names in cou...

02/06/2024

As a result, we defense attorneys are frequently getting more cases dismissed for a lack of probable cause. It ought not be that way, except citizens are frequently being arrested and charged for crimes they did not commit because, as the Chronicle article claims, the prosecutors assigned to intake lack trial experience and thereby cannot properly evaluate the calls from law enforcement warrant that a charge should be accepted. Houstonians deserve better.

Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg’s office filed criminal charges in more than 4,500 cases in 2022 that judges said lacked probable cause, the lowest burden of proof needed to detain and prosecute someone.

01/24/2024

In El Paso, in 1990, an innocent person could be convicted for a multitude of reasons. This man could have been the first person exonerated by DNA but the evidence that would have set him free was never followed up on by the DA nor the defense attorney. If not for this brave juror who felt intimidated to vote guilty and had the courage to speak out decades later, this man would have died in prison. Unfortunately, after living in prison for decades for a crime he did not commit, he still could not collect the $2 million he should have received.

She was pressured into convicting a man she believed was innocent—and was haunted by remorse. Three decades later, she did something about it.

01/11/2024

This is a great example of the miscarriage of justice by the English government that ruined hundreds of lives, and led to several suicides — all due to a software error and a rush to judgment.

A hit TV series has reignited public outrage over a scandal dubbed the "most widespread miscarriage of justice" in British history.

12/03/2023

This place in Utah seems to be good for kids that would otherwise be sent to prison. I hope this approach spreads nationwide. I also defend juveniles in court, and I hate that the juvenile system for many ends up being a pipeline to prison. It costs $25,000 for kids to complete this program and has a high success rate. It would have cost $110,000 a year to send the kid to prison who may then become a hardened criminal.

Rancho Cielo offers job training, a culinary academy, and private schooling for at-risk youth or youth living below the poverty line.

11/21/2023

When a 77 year old lawyer chooses to smuggle drugs into the jail, it speaks either of greed, or more likely desperation as Social Security is not enough for a retiree to live on, and if that is the case it is only going to get worse.

The arrest of a 77-year-old attorney may be the first of many in the case of drugs being smuggled into the Harris County Jail, investigators said.

10/18/2023

Sad ending for Lenny Cure after spending 16 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.

Leonard Allan Cure spent 16 years behind bars for a robbery he didn't commit. Less than three years after his release, he was shot and killed during a traffic stop in Georgia.

10/03/2023

No justice for man convicted by junk science—the so-called shaken baby syndrome.

Robert Roberson was sentenced in 2003 for killing toddler on basis of shaken baby syndrome, now ruled as ‘scientifically unreliable’

07/28/2023

My attorney friends with philosophy degrees may disagree.