Over the weekend a client was falsely arrested by the Houston Police Department for the crime of interfering with his own false arrest. A child had called police to report an argument between my client and his fiance. When police arrived, the woman appeared at the door. Officers wrote that they saw no visible injuries on her and that she told them it had just been a heated argument.
Police literally pushed her out of the way and entered the home without a warrant. They initially had two guns drawn but later had a gun and a taser. The woman pleaded with police that the client was not a “suspect” as they called him that. They pointed their weapons at him and ordered him to show his hands. They put their hands on him to arrest him and threw him to the ground, busting his face. They lied in their report and claimed he had “closed the distance” on them and tried to run through the apartment. He was injured in the incident.
The DAs Office refused charges on family violence (duh) but charged the client with “interference.” He did not interfere, and at any rate, you can’t interfere illegally with a false arrest.
We appeared in front of the judge where I asked for the court to find no probable cause. The court set it for a hearing the next day to give the state a chance to review the video. We showed up in court today and the judge was out, and another judge refused to hold our hearing, leaving my client in jail. I explained that he was going to lose his job and we worked very hard to get him that job (in food service).
The DAs Office continues to engage in pretend prosecutions on cases they KNOW they will never take to trial. They are using human beings as target practice for young lawyers who have no idea and no training.
My client cannot make a $500 bond and I was told today that bond was reasonable so I am doing the only thing I can do when two arms of the same government refuses to fix an obvious miscarriage of justice. He will not sleep another night in jail on my watch for this bullshit.