Alex Fuller

Criminal Defense Lawyer. Trying to be civil. Serving McKinney, Plano, Frisco, and Collin, Dallas, and Denton Counties in the Great State of Texas.

[Alex Fuller @HAlexFuller]

@ComeAndFakeIt @jeremybcooper @NoLongerBennett Yeah, especially considering it is pretty unlikely that the character evidence for the victim was ever going to come into evidence while the character evidence for the defendant was going to be front and center at some point.

[Alex Fuller @HAlexFuller]

@DAMendelsohnNYC I continue to maintain that people confused by the phrase have never visited Santorini in May.

[Alex Fuller @HAlexFuller]

@thehandsomezach This works the other way too though. I tried the same case twice in two days two weeks ago; 2nd time I fixed the problems with my voir dire/argument.

Yes, twice in two days; the State couldn’t get a witness there on day 2 so we pushed it and had that going for us as well.

[Alex Fuller @HAlexFuller]

@bendreyfuss Consider the source.

[Alex Fuller @HAlexFuller]

@solirvine The legal community is the only sector of the economy that really believes in the labor theory of value.

[Austin Franco @austinrfranco]

I recently found out that I share the same first and last name with a 19 year old student at Cornell who is going viral (over ten million views across twitter and other platforms) for anti-Semitic comments that he made (and continues to make) to a prospective-employer.

My social media (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) and law firm email address are being blown up by people understandably angry at this other Austin Franco. None of the posts cross any legal lines, but unfortunately there have been comments and emails talking about me, my firm, my parents, etc.

To make matters worse, the undergraduate looks just enough like me to be confusing, and the NY Post, Fox News, and other publications, have written about it with his image as the article cover.

The bad Austin Franco is continuing to make these statements to media and on social media, so we wanted to go on the record disassociating me and the law firm from him.

I am hoping this post will alleviate some confusion for the general public.

I appreciate all the people who have reached out!

[Alex Fuller @HAlexFuller]

@NoLongerBennett If it wasn’t for that very rare mistake by the trial court judge and that (retained) trial/appellate case I’d be 0-10.

Leaving everything else aside the Fifth Court of Appeals isn’t a friendly pace to appeal cases to.

[Alex Fuller @HAlexFuller]

@NoLongerBennett In the last five or so years, I have handled 10 appeals and won 2 of them. One of those was because the trial judge incorrectly defined reasonable doubt for the jury panel and one I tried on an evidentiary theory that lost at trial but won on appeal.

[Alex Fuller @HAlexFuller]

@Bederowlaw (Also because I was very charming but that’s neither here nor there.)

[Alex Fuller @HAlexFuller]

@Bederowlaw In a recent felony case in Collin County we chose the jury and thank god we did. State had offered 40 years, asked the jury for 50, and we got 25 on a horrific case with video and a confession. Why? Because we screened out jurors who couldn’t consider the minimum sentence.

[Alex Fuller @HAlexFuller]

@ProsecutorsPod Or - Juries, as the representatives of the people, are better placed to make a judgment about what the appropriate sentence is in their community. The defendant should have the option to choose.

[Alex Fuller @HAlexFuller]

@jarvis_best @exjon You could have just said “yes”

[Alex Fuller @HAlexFuller]

@HorsePuler8000 @BovrilG Read something similar and IIRC it was because high scorers tended to get bored and leave for greener pastures.

[Alex Fuller @HAlexFuller]

@a_fellow_of The cultural anthropologists made us read solipsistic books about an innocent exchange student’s trip to France.

The archaeologist was finagling grant money to rent a houseboat in the Florida Keys to dig shell middens and go fishing afterwards.

These are different species.

[Alex Fuller @HAlexFuller]

@ATFintern London and Ryder are great lawyers and better folks!

[Alex Fuller @HAlexFuller]

@LordVader0321 @privateeyeruss I saw a criminal defendant try this last week. He filed his Chat-drafted motion to suppress and argued it himself. Did not go well!

This is a bad idea. Hire an attorney. They exist for a reason.

[Alex Fuller @HAlexFuller]

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[Alex Fuller @HAlexFuller]

@segalmr I’m sure this is very location and personality dependent, but in my experience if the judge knows that you know how to preserve error and build a record, they end up being more deferential to you, not less.