The best defense to an arrest in Texas in a serious criminal matter is to head the case off before indictment. That’s something that almost never happens when an arrestee kills a law enforcement officer. But it happened recently to Dick DeGuerin’s client.
“I don’t know of any time it’s happened when a grand jury no-billed someone charged with killing a police officer,” said DeGuerin, a partner in Houston’s DeGuerin Dickson Hennessy & Ward. A Burleson County grand jury declined to indict his client, Henry Goedrich Magee II, for capital murder on Feb. 6.
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