Dallas Criminal Lawyer – David Finn

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To compile our list of the best 391 lawyers in Dallas, we asked lawyers with a valid Texas bar number to designate their primary area of practice. We then asked them to nominate two lawyers outside their firm and one within their firm in their area of practice, keeping the following question in mind: which Dallas lawyers, of those whose work you have witnessed firsthand, would you rank among the current best? Answers may include co-counsel, lawyers you have observed in court, and opposing counsel. After the votes were tallied, a panel of eminent lawyers met with our editors to evaluate the Best Lawyers in Dallas 2013 list. Self-nominations were not counted. The panel’s anonymity was assured to allow the lawyers to speak freely about issues regarding their peers that would be known only to the legal community. Voting was conducted exclusively at dmagazine.com. After this list was completed, we turned a copy over to our sales staff. The sales department cannot add or subtract from the list. They in turn offer full-profile advertisements to the winners. The editors have no idea who purchases these ads, which are found in a special advertising section somewhere else in the magazine. If lawyers decline to buy an ad, they are still listed. No one can buy an ad in the special section unless he or she is included in this list.

A Tarrant County grand jury has declined to indict an Addison attorney who went through a security checkpoint at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport in January with a loaded .38-caliber revolver in a carry-on bag.

Judith Kenney, 65, had been charged with unlawful carrying of a weapon in a place where weapons are prohibited.

The panel’s members did not find probable cause for prosecutors to take the case to court, according to a news release from the Tarrant County district attorney’s office.

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An attorney said Thursday that a prominent Highland Park family is “considering all options” against the Fort Worth Police Department a day after their son’s picture mistakenly appeared on an arrest warrant as a target in this week’s TCU drug busts.

“A public apology would appear to be in order, for starters,” said David Finn, attorney for the Carpenter family in Dallas. He would not rule out legal action.

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The Dallas County district attorney’s office has subpoenaed two more courthouse employees — including a second judge — in its official-oppression investigation into Criminal Court Judge Julia Hayes.

Prosecutors began a grand jury investigation of Hayes and subpoenaed her after she held a prosecutor in contempt for not following a court order last week. The district attorney’s office this week also subpoenaed the judge’s court coordinator, Teresa Pigg-Curry, and Criminal Court Judge Angela King.

Attorneys for Hayes, Pigg-Curry and King on Wednesday questioned the actions of District Attorney Craig Watkins in launching the grand jury investigation and subpoenaing the women. The judges, like Watkins, are Democrats.

“This whole thing is, at best, bizarre. At worst, despicable,” David Finn, who represents Pigg-Curry, said Wednesday. “Somebody is giving District Attorney Craig Watkins some very bad advice.”

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65-year-old Woman Says She Forgot About Gun Before Taking it on Plane

A 65-year-old Little Elm woman was arrested Wednesday morning after carrying a revolver aboard a plane at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.

Transportation Security Administration officials notified police about 6 a.m. that the woman had grabbed her belongings off a checkpoint conveyor belt and walked away before TSA agents spotted the .38-caliber handgun.

Judith Kenney’s lawyer, David Finn, said she had simply forgotten the gun was in her computer bag.
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A jury will resume deliberations Thursday in the trial of a 20-year-old Plano man accused of sucker-punching a UCLA tennis player, resulting in a brain injury two years ago.

The jury of eight women and four men began deliberations about 2 p.m. Wednesday and stopped about 4:30 p.m.

Chancellor Jay Hutcheson is charged with second-degree felony aggravated assault and faces up to 20 years in prison. But because he doesn’t have a prior felony conviction, Hutcheson is eligible for probation.

Hutcheson is accused of hitting 22-year-old Jeffrey Fleming at Fair Park after a Rascal Flatts concert on June 13, 2009. Fleming fell to the ground, slamming his head against the pavement.

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The former chairman and president of one of Dallas’ biggest youth soccer clubs was indicted Wednesday on charges that he stole more than $800,000 from the Solar Soccer Club.

A grand jury indicted George David Ringer, 58, on two charges of theft and misappropriation of funds. In a bankruptcy filing last year, Ringer admitted owing Solar $900,000 — a debt he wanted a federal judge to cancel.

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James M. Davis, Mr. Stanford’s chief financial officer, leaving court on Thursday with his wife, Lori, and lawyer, David Finn.

HOUSTON — R. Allen Stanford’s relationship with the chief regulator of his Antigua bank was closer than most.

At a meeting in 2003, they became blood brothers, cutting their wrists and mixing their blood in a “brotherhood ceremony�? that Mr. Stanford’s chief financial officer said promoted an elaborate scheme to hide a multibillion-dollar fraud from American and other regulators.

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