The Law Office of Francisco Hernandez Blog

April 30th, 2017

The things you’re going to have to have in your petition: name, sex, race these are all in the statute and you can look in up later. Just all the person’s vital information case number in court, a...

April 29th, 2017

And you can also apply for this recommendation expunction. A recommendation expunction is where you get the, it’s kind of like that certification but, it’s a little stronger language than that. An...

April 28th, 2017

Now if the charge is filed and dismissed, you have to wait until the statute limitations runs. so, we’re talking about you know, no statute limitations on murder, aggravated sexual assault, indecenc...

April 27th, 2017

Pre-trial intervention program. Like we said, a pre-trial intervention program allows somebody to get an expunction as soon as they complete the program. Now these are going to be your programs, it sa...

April 26th, 2017

So, charges that have not been filed. You got different timelines for your cases that have never been filed and your cases filed and dismissed. if an indictment or information has not been presented: ...

April 25th, 2017

I had that situation, had that successfully expunged in your jurisdictions. Really, not many? Ok. Well, there’s a disagreement among the courts in Texas about exactly how this is supposed to play ou...

April 24th, 2017

One of the things that you need to be going through your mind is what evidence is there that is going to be susceptible to being destroyed. Either purposefully or through dis laps in time. If yo u hav...

April 23rd, 2017

One of the reasons I had to change up my power point a load a bit because they did such a wonderful job yesterday morning, talking about the new discovery laws. So what I wanted to do is to focus on y...

April 22nd, 2017

When do you use them? We use them in cases with complex issues or sensitive issues. So, the sexual assault case as I mentioned where you got 1/3 of your panel who is affected by this. A lot of people ...

April 21st, 2017

I would like to save it for the end of Jury selection and the reason why it is because I know I am absolutely entitled to talk about it. So if I am running out of time I want to make sure that is at t...

April 20th, 2017

You’re going to start off by starting the cause question. Ask the specific juror of how they feel and why they feel – and if they don’t – and if they don’t admit to the bias –that’s fine...

April 19th, 2017

As of their past experiences, you’re dead in the water at the beginning which is why a lot of lawyers think that jury selection is where you win or lose a trial. The other thing you can let them kno...