Practice
Federal and state criminal defense—the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, and courts across Texas.
State Criminal Defense
Her state cases run from a first misdemeanor to a first-degree felony, in Harris, Fort Bend, Brazoria, Brazos, Montgomery and other counties across Texas.
It moves faster than people expect and it is far less orderly than television suggests. A first setting can come within a week. The State’s file arrives in pieces rather than all at once. Offers get made, and sometimes withdrawn, before anyone has seen the whole case.
It is also not one system. Harris County does not run its misdemeanor docket the way Fort Bend does, Montgomery has its own habits, and a case in Brazos moves on a different rhythm from either. Knowing which courthouse you are standing in comes with practice, and it is why who you choose as your lawyer matters.
A felony is not a misdemeanor with a bigger number on it. A felony has to go to a grand jury before it can be indicted at all—a stage most people have never heard of, which happens without them, and where a case can quietly end. The whole sequence is set out stage by stage.
On request, the State has to turn over its file: offense reports, body and dash camera video, dispatch records, recorded statements, lab results, witness information. That is the Michael Morton Act, and the words that matter are on request. It is not an automatic delivery, and it does not all arrive at once.
Reagen is a Texas A&M graduate and takes cases in Brazos County, where a charge can reach past the courtroom into enrollment, a scholarship, a professional license years later, or a student visa.
This office is located in Houston. Brazos County matters are handled by appearance in that county.
Federal Criminal Defense
Federal court is not state court with higher stakes. It is a different system, with its own rules of procedure and evidence, its own discovery regime, no automatic right to bond, and a sentencing process that turns on guidelines calculated long before the hearing. When you are hiring a lawyer for a federal case, ask how much time they have actually spent in federal court. It is an entirely different animal.
A federal case is investigated for months, sometimes years, before anyone is arrested, by agents with subpoena power and no deadline, and by the time there is an arrest the question is already whether you are released at all. By the time a person learns they are a target, the government has usually already decided what the case is.
Her first major case as an attorney was a federal criminal antitrust prosecution—a price-fixing conspiracy brought by the federal government in the Southern District of Texas.
Past results are not a guarantee or prediction of the outcome of any other matter.
A DWI arrest starts two cases, not one.
The criminal case is the one everybody thinks about. The other is civil. The Department of Public Safety runs it, and all it decides is whether you keep your license. It moves faster, it is decided under a lower standard of proof, and it has a deadline measured in days.
You have fifteen days from the day you were served with the notice of suspension to request a hearing—not fifteen days from your arrest, which is what most of the internet will tell you. If the police took blood, the notice usually arrives by post weeks later, and the clock has probably not started yet. The deadline, and how to work out your exact date.
Requesting that hearing stays the suspension while it is pending, and it puts the arresting officer under oath months before the criminal trial, which is also when you find out whether the stop began with something an officer saw or with a license plate reader hit. It costs nothing to ask for. There is almost never a reason not to.
First offense through felony repeat, breath and blood, occupational licenses, and the criminal case alongside.
Charges handled
This is not an exhaustive list, and it is not a menu. Most cases involve more than one of these at once. Two worth reading about before you assume you know where you stand: what actually changed with THC in Texas, and, once a case is over, whether the record can be erased or only sealed.
Violent Offenses
- Assault & Battery
- Aggravated Assault
- Robbery
- Murder & Homicide
- Sexual Assault
- Domestic Violence
Drug Offenses
- Possession
- Distribution
- Trafficking
- Manufacturing
- Federal Drug Charges
White Collar & Federal
- Fraud
- Antitrust
- Conspiracy
- Money Laundering
- Wire Fraud
- Embezzlement
Other Charges
- DWI / DUI
- Reckless Driving
- Theft & Burglary
- Weapons Charges
- Juvenile Offenses
- Expunctions
- Appeals
You will know what is happening in your case.
You will hear from Reagen directly. Calls are returned.
You and your family will know what is happening in the case, what the options are, and what to expect at each stage.
A small number of civil matters are accepted by referral.