Gary A. Udashen
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- 8150 N. Central Expressway Suite M1101 Dallas, Texas 75206
Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Eastern, Arkansas
- U.S. District Court, Eastern, Texas
- U.S. District Court, Northern, Texas
- U.S. District Court, Southern, Texas
- U.S. District Court, Western, Texas
- U.S. Supreme Court
- SMU Dedman School of Law (JD, 1979)
- Honors: Russell Baker Moot Court Champion (1977)
- Honors: Participant, International Moot Court Competition (1978)
- Honors: Regional Finalist, National Mock Trial Competition (1979)
- Law Review: Journal of Air Law and Commerce, Associate Editor, 1978 — 1979
- Bradley University (BS, cum laude, 1975)
- Major: Economics
About
Biography
Gary A. Udashen’s law practice combines the book knowledge that comes with an active appellate practice with the trial skills of a seasoned trial attorney. Dividing his practice between these two areas has enabled Mr. Udashen to bridge what is often considered separate areas of criminal defense work.
Mr. Udashen is well known as a criminal appellate specialist and was one of the first lawyers in the State of Texas to be Board Certified in Criminal Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He has effectively represented clients in federal and state appellate courts, including the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. His appellate cases have made law in many areas of criminal jurisprudence ranging from bank fraud cases to suppression of exculpatory evidence by prosecutors.
As a part of his appellate practice, Mr. Udashen handles applications for writs of habeas corpus focused on wrongful convictions and actual innocence cases. He has been counsel or co-counsel in over 25 exonerations of wrongfully convicted persons and is widely recognized as among the leading Texas attorneys in this highly specialized area of the law.
He has also carried his desire to free innocent persons from prison into his work with the Innocence Project of Texas and has been a board member since 2008. Mr. Udashen also served as board president for 10 years and is currently chair of the litigation committee. Mr. Udashen was honored with the Super Lawyers Magazine Pro Bono award for 2014 for his work with the Innocence Project of Texas. Mr. Udashen’s success in pursuing innocence claims for his clients has been the subject of widespread media attention.
Additionally, Mr. Udashen has over 40 years experience trying cases in both Federal and State courts. These cases include trials ranging from conspiracy to white collar fraud to murder and manslaughter. He has also been Board Certified in Criminal Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1985. The intricate knowledge of the law that comes from his appellate practice is carried forward into the trial court where Mr. Udashen is able to effectively pursue complex and innovative defensive strategies. Mr. Udashen has also developed an expertise in various areas of criminal law, including search and seizure, evidence and federal sentencing procedures.
Mr. Udashen frequently appears as a speaker at seminars sponsored by such groups as the State Bar of Texas, Dallas Bar Association and the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. He has spoken on a variety of topics, including pretrial motions, jury selection, contempt, expert testimony, exculpatory evidence, ineffective assistance of counsel, appeals, writs of habeas corpus, actual innocence and preservation of error. He also regularly contributes articles to the Voice for the Defense, the periodical of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association where his articles have covered a variety of topics, including actual innocence, search and seizure issues, jury selection, appellate review standards, and malpractice in criminal cases. Mr. Udashen also served for 5 years as Feature Articles Editor for the Voice for the Defense. Mr. Udashen was also appointed by the Court of Criminal Appeals to serve as a member of the Texas Criminal Justice Integrity Unit.
Mr. Udashen has been selected as a Texas Super Lawyer by Thomson Reuters from 2003 to 2023. Mr. Udashen has been continuously listed in the publication, Best Lawyers in America, in the areas of Appellate Law, White Collar Criminal Defense and General Criminal Defense. Mr. Udashen has been named as the Best Lawyers 2011 Dallas Criminal Defense: White Collar Lawyer of the Year and Best Lawyers 2014 Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year. He has also been listed in D Magazine as one of the top criminal defense lawyers in Dallas. National Public Radio has described Mr. Udashen as one of the most prominent criminal attorneys in Texas.
Mr. Udashen has also been active at S.M.U. Law School. He has written portions of the Criminal Law Sections on the S.M.U. Law Journal Annual Survey of Texas Law on five different occasions. He also served as a trial tactics instructor at the S.M.U. Law School.
Mr. Udashen is a 1977 honors graduate of the University of Texas and 1980 graduate of the S.M.U. Law School where he was a member of the Southwestern Law Journal. He is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Dallas County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association as well as the Dallas Bar Association. He was a member of the Board of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and has served as Chairman of the Appellate and Criminal Specialization Committees and co-chairman of the Attorney Assistance Strike Force. Mr. Udashen has also served as chairman of the Criminal Law Section of the Dallas Bar Association. He is also a former member of the Advisory Committee for Criminal Appellate Certification for the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Mr. Udashen is also a former member of the Patrick Higginbotham Inns of Court. He is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in the State of Texas, as well as the United States Supreme Court and United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth, Sixth and Tenth Circuit.
Results
Gary A. Udashen obtained the vacating of a 1972 Theft case based on ineffective assistance of counsel and the entry of an involuntary plea.
Gary A. Udashen obtained the reversal of a conviction of a non-citizen of an old family violence assault case. This resulted in the client avoiding deportation based on this conviction.
Working with the Innocence Project of Texas, Gary A. Udashen and Brett Ordiway won the reversal of a capital murder conviction and life sentence based on false testimony.
Gary Udashen and Brett Ordiway won the reversal of a capital murder conviction and life sentence based on false testimony.
Gary A. Udashen was part of an innocence project team who obtained the exoneration of a man wrongfully convicted of Sexual Assault and Burglary in Dallas County in 1982.
Gary A. Udashen and Katherine Reed have obtained a Grand Jury no-bill and dismissal of a Denton County Felony Family Violence Assault case.
Gary A. Udashen was part of an Innocence Project team who obtained an order from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granting an Application for Writ of Habeas Corpus and reversal of a decades old sexual assault conviction.
Gary A. Udashen led a team of lawyers who obtained the recusal of a judge on an Application for Writ of Habeas Corpus on a felony theft case.
Gary Udashen obtained the reversal of a Federal bank fraud conviction based on insufficient evidence.
Gary Udashen obtained the reversal of an arson murder case based on actual innocence and new scientific evidence.
Gary Udashen won a new sentencing hearing for a client convicted of aggravated robbery based on the prosecution suppressing exculpatory evidence.
Gary Udashen obtained the reversal and an order for a new sentencing hearing on a federal white collar fraud conviction based on ineffective assistance of counsel.
Gary Udashen and Brett Ordiway won the reversal of an evading-arrest-with-a-vehicle conviction based on an error in the jury’s instructions.
Gary Udashen obtained the reversal of a 40 year sentence for the offense of aggravated robbery based on the suppression of exculpatory evidence by the prosecutor .
Gary Udashen, Katherine Reed and Brett Ordiway obtained a dismissal of a case against a physician who was charged in federal Court with improperly prescribing opioids.
Gary Udashen obtained a court order setting aside two guilty pleas entered by a foreign national based on the failure of his lawyer to properly advise him of the immigration consequences of his convictions.
Gary Udashen obtained the reversal of a 25 year old murder case after discovering exculpatory evidence withheld from the defense by the investigating detective. The District Attorney’s Office then dismissed the case.
- Gary Udashen won the reversal of a conviction of a young man who was convicted of a series of aggravated robberies based on the police withholding evidence indicating that someone else could have been the person who committed the robberies.
- Gary Udashen won the reversal of a conviction of a Dallas County man on a murder case from 20 years ago based on the state presenting false evidence from jailhouse informants and withholding information from the defense about the benefits the jailhouse informants received for their testimony.
- Gary Udashen and Bruce Anton won the reversal of a Dallas County conviction for burglary of a habitation after presenting evidence that the defendant was in another city at the time the burglary occurred.
- Gary Udashen and Bruce Anton won the reversal of a Dallas County conviction for failure to register as a sex offender after presenting evidence that the defendant was not required to register.
Gary Udashen, Brett Ordiway, and Tiffany Talamantez won the reversal of a doctor’s conviction and 78-month sentence for distributing controlled substances.
Gary Udashen and Katherine Reed have obtained Grand Jury no-bills and dismissal of three separate cases for three different clients for the offenses of Felony Deadly Conduct, Sexual Assault of a Minor and Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle.
Gary Udashen led a team of lawyers who convinced the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office that a man who had spent 33 years in prison on a murder conviction was wrongfully convicted and should have his conviction vacated
Gary Udashen was part of an Innocence Project team who obtained a recommendation from a Dallas County District Judge that a man convicted of sexual assault in 1982 was wrongfully convicted and should have his conviction vacated.
Classes & Seminars
- “Wrongful Convictions: How They Happen and How to Fix Them,” State Bar of Texas, November 15, 2023
- “Legal Issues in Texas Wrongful Conviction Cases,” TDCLA, August 17, 2023
- “Ineffective Assistance of Counsel,” State Bar of Texas, July 25, 2023
- “New Science Writs Under Art. 11.073,” State Bar of Texas, November 18, 2022
- “Legal Issues in Texas Wrongful Conviction Cases,” Center for American and International Law, August 24, 2022
- “Ineffective Assistance of Counsel,” State Bar of Texas, July 20, 2022
- “Legal Issues in Texas Wrongful Conviction Cases,” Texas Center for Judiciary, February 17, 2022
- “Legal Issues in Texas Wrongful Conviction Cases,” Center for American and International Law, August 25, 2021
- “Legal Issues in Texas Wrongful Conviction Cases,” Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, August 5, 2021
- “Ineffective Assistance of Counsel,” State Bar of Texas, July 20, 2021
- “Ineffective Assistance of Counsel and State Misconduct,” University of Texas Law School, May 13, 2021
- “Legal Issues in Texas Innocence Cases,” Center for American and International Law, November 3, 2020.
- “State Applications for Writs of Habeas Corpus,” Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, October 29, 2020
- “Ineffective Assistance of Counsel,” State Bar of Texas, July 13, 2020
- “Criminal Justice Reform,” Dallas Bar Association, October 2, 2019
- “Legal Issues in Texas Innocence Cases,” Center for American and International Law, August 28, 2019
- “Actual Innocence in the 21st Century: A Herculean, But No Impossible Task,” State Bar of Texas, July 24, 2019
- “Ineffective Assistance of Counsel,” State Bar of Texas, July 22, 2019
- “Working with Conviction Integrity Units,” University of Texas Law School, May 1, 2019
- “Common Causes of Wrongful Convictions and Recent Developments,” Center for American and International Law, March 3, 2020
- “Legal Issues in Texas Innocence Cases,” Center for American and International Law, February 26, 2019
- “Legal Issues in Texas Innocence Cases,” Center for American and International Law, February 26, 2020
- “The San Antonio Four Case,” Texas Center For the Judiciary, February 25, 2019
- “Applications for Writs of Habeas Corpus,” Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, October 25, 2018
- “Forensic Science Update,” Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, September 13, 2018
- “Mistakes Lawyers Make in Child Abuse Cases,” Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, September 14, 2018
- “Legal Issues in Texas Innocence Cases,” Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, August 2, 2018
- “Ineffective Assistance of Counsel,” State Bar of Texas, July 25, 2018
- “Actual Innocence Claims and 11.073 Writs,” University of Texas Law School, May 3, 2018
- “Legal Issues in Texas Innocence Cases,” Center for American and International Law, August 29, 2018, April 10, 2018
- “Legal Issues in Texas Innocence Cases,” Center for American and International Law, August 29, 2018
- “Best Practices in Applications for Writs of Habeas Corpus,” Center for American and International Law, August 31, 2017
- “Legal Issues in Texas Innocence Cases,” Center for American and International Law, August 30, 2017
- “Legal Issues in Texas Innocence Cases,” Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and Innocence Project of Texas, August 10, 2017
- “Ineffective Assistance of Counsel,” State Bar of Texas Advanced Criminal Law Course, July 17, 2017
- “Innocence Writs,” University of Texas Law School, May 11, 2017
- “Innocence Writs,” State Bar of Texas, December 2, 2016
- “Legal Issues in Texas Innocence Cases,” Center for American and International Law, August 29, 2016
- “State Applications for Writs of Habeas Corpus,” Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, August 18, 2016
- “Suppression of Exculpatory Evidence”, State Bar of Texas Advanced Criminal Law Course, Dallas, Texas, July 20, 2016
- “Update on Legal Issues Related to Forensic Science”, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, June 17, 2016
- “Legal Issues in Texas Innocence Cases,”, Center for American and International Law, Plano, Texas, February 17, 2016 – February 19, 2016
- “Legal Issues in Texas Innocence Cases,”, Center for American and International Law, Plano, Texas, August 19, 2015 – August 20, 2015
- “New Science”, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Austin, Texas, August 6, 2015 – August 7, 2015
- Course Director, State Bar of Texas, Advanced Criminal Law Course, San Antonio, Texas, July 27, 2015 – July 30, 2015
- “Legal Issues in Texas Innocence Cases”, Center for American and International Law, Plano, Texas, February 18, 2015 – February 20, 2015
- “Applications for Writs of Habeas Corpus”, Center for American and International Law Innocence Seminar, Plano, Texas, 2014
- “Suppression of Exculpatory Evidence”, Actual Innocence Seminar, Center for American and International Law, Plano, Texas, 2014
- “Update on Caselaw on Scientific Evidence”, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Innocence Seminar, Austin, Texas, 2014
- “Cleaning Up the Scientific Junkyard”, “Sex, Drugs & Surveillance”, State Bar of Texas Seminar, Houston, Texas, 2014
- “Junk Science: The Law”, The Innocent in Texas: Cutting Edge of Theory and Practice Seminar, Austin, Texas, 2013
- “Legal Standards for Forensic Evidence”, Advanced Criminal Law Course, Dallas, Texas, 2013
- “Suppression of Exculpatory Evidence”, Actual Innocence Seminar, Plano, Texas, 2013
- “Applications for Writs of Habeas Corpus”, Post-Conviction Seminar, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Houston, Texas, 2013
- “Update on Legal Standards for Forensic Evidence”, Sex, Drugs & Surveillance Seminar, State Bar of Texas, Houston, Texas, 2013
- “Legal Standing for Forensic Evidence”, Actual Innocence Seminar, Center for American and International Law, Plano, Texas, 2012
- “Habeas Corpus Issues”, Post-Conviction Seminar, Center for American and International Law, Plano, Texas, 2012
- “Suppression of Exculpatory Evidence”, State Bar of Texas Advanced Criminal Law Course, San Antonio, Texas, 2012
- “Update on Legal Standards on Forensic Evidence” , Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association Seminar, Innocence Work for the Real Lawyer, Austin, Texas, 2012
- “Suppression of Exculpatory Evidence”, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 25th Annual Rusty Duncan Advanced Criminal Law Course, San Antonio, Texas, 2012
- “Update on Legal Standards on Forensic Evidence”, Texas Criminal Justice Integrity Unit and Texas Forensic Science Commission Joint Seminar on Forensic Science, Austin, Texas, 2012
- “Eyewitness Identification: Recent Case Law and Trends,”, Texas Center for the Judiciary, Criminal Justice Conference, Dallas, Texas, 2012
- “Post-Conviction DNA” , State Bar of Texas, Dallas, Texas, 2011
- “Habeas Issues and Actual Innocence”, Center for American and International Law, Plano, Texas, 2011
- “Texas Legislative Update”, Actual Innocence Seminar, Center for American and International Law, Plano, Texas, 2011
- “Jury Instructions”, Criminal Defense Trial Skills Course, Center for American and International Law, Plano, Texas, 2011
- “Applications for Writ of Habeas Corpus”, Rusty Duncan Advanced Criminal Law Course, San Antonio, Texas, 2011
- Criminal Appeals and Post-Conviction Writs Seminar, Course Director, Dallas Bar Association, 2011
- “New and Pending Legislation”, University of Texas Law School Conference on Criminal Appeals, Austin, Texas, 2011
- Speaker, State Applications for Writ of Habeas Corpus, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association Post-Conviction Seminar, Houston, Texas, February 3, 2011
- Texas Lawyer Magazine Podcasts as the Criminal Law Expert., The podcasts can be found at Texaslawyer.com
- “Application for Writs of Habeas Corpus”, Center for American and International Law Actual Innocence Seminar, Plano, Texas, 2010
- “Eyewitness Testimony”, Dallas Bar Association, Criminal Law Section, 2010
- “Protecting the Record”, Rusty Duncan Advanced Criminal Law Course, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, San Antonio, Texas, 2010
- “Applications for Writ of Habeas Corpus”; “New Horizons in Innocence”, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Forensics Seminar, Houston, 2009
- “Preservation of Error”, Rusty Duncan Advanced Criminal Law Course, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, San Antonio, Texas, 2009
- “Supreme Court Update”, Conference on Criminal Appeals, University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas, 2009
- Faculty Member, The Evidence Boot Camp, Center for American and International Law, February 28, 2008 – February 29, 2008
- “Designating Issues”, Writs Training Workshop for District Judges, Texas Center for the Judiciary in Dallas, Texas, 2009
- “Exculpatory Evidence in Criminal Cases”, Collin County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 2008
- “Basic Brief Writing”, Rusty Duncan Advanced Criminal Law Course, San Antonio, Texas, 2008
- “Search and Seizure”, Dallas Bar Association, 2007 – Present
- “Search and Seizure”, Rusty Duncan Advanced Criminal Law Course, San Antonio, Texas, 2007 – Present
Published Works
- “Recent Texas Exoneration: Tyrone Day,” Voice for the Defense, November 2023
- “Recent Texas Exoneration: Mallory Nicholson,” Voice for the Defense, March 2023
- “Freeing the Innocent: Actual Innocence and the Writ of Habeas Corpus”, Voice for the Defense, Vol. 33, No. 10 (December), 2004
- “The Law of Polygraph Evidence”, Voice for the Defense, Vol. 32, No.8 (October), 2003
- “Private Attorney or Public Prosecutor: When Private Attorneys Take Over the Prosecution of a Criminal Case”, Voice for the Defense, Vol. 31, No. 2 (March), 2002
- Features Article Editor, Voice for the Defense, Publication of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Spring, 1994–2000
- “Criminal Procedure, Pretrial, Trial and Appeal”, S.M.U. Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 4, Spring , 1998
- “Motion to Dismiss Indictment Based on Vindictive Prosecution”, Voice for the Defense, Vol. 26, No. 10 (December), 1997
- “Criminal Procedure Pretrial Trial and Appeals” , S.M.U. Law Review, Vol. 48, No. 4, Spring, 1995
- “Factual Sufficiency Review After Clewis”, Voice for the Defense, Vol. 26, No. 5, (June), 1995
- “Pre-Trial, Trial and Appeal” , 47 S.M.U. Law Review, Spring, 1994
- “Malpractice in Criminal Cases”, Voice for the Defense, Vol. 23. No. 5, (November), 1994
- “Criminal Procedure: Confession, Search and Seizure”, S.M.U. Law Review, Vol. 46, No. 4, Spring , 1993
- “Exclusion of the Alphabet and Counting Tests in DWI Prosecutions under Pennsylvania v. Muniz”, Voice for the Defense, Vol. 22, No. 7 (November), 1993
- “Felony DWI: A New Approach to an Old Problem”, Voice for the Defense, Vol. 22, No. 6 (October), 1993
- “Criminal Procedure: Confession, Search and Seizure”, Southwestern Law Journal, Vol. 45, No. 1, Summer , 1991
- “Culpable Mental States in Result Type Offenses”, Voice for the Defense, Vol. 20 (July), 1991
- “Greyhound Shakedown” , Voice for the Defense, Vol. 19 No. 11, September , 1990
- “Texas Rules and Procedures on Appeals, Time Cuts and Aggravated Sentences”, Offender Preparation and Education Network Information Series, 1987
- “Batson v. Kentucky: A Defense Perspective”, Voice for the Defense, Summer, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1987
Appearances & Articles
Gary Udashen was the author of an article for The Voice For The Defense, published in November, 2023, on the recent exoneration of Tyrone Day.
Gary A. Udashen participated in a webinar sponsored by the State Bar of Texas on November 15, 2023, entitled, “Wrongful Convictions: How They Happen and How to Fix Them.”
Gary Udashen was part of an Innocence Project team that obtained the exoneration of a man in a ’89 sexual assault for which he served 26 years.
Working with the Innocence Project of Texas, Gary Udashen and Brett Ordiway won the reversal of a capital murder conviction and life sentence based on false testimony. When originally presented with the case, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals considered increasing the burden on applicants raising false-testimony claims, but following oral argument, the court left the standard untouched and granted relief.
Gary A. Udashen spoke on “Legal Issues in Texas Wrongful Conviction Cases” at the Annual Program: Establishing Innocence or Guilt in Plano, Texas, sponsored by the Center for American and International Law on August 23, 2023.
Gary A. Udashen has been listed in the 2024 Edition of Best Lawyers in America in the areas of Appellate Practice, Criminal Defense: General Practice and Criminal Defense: White Collar.
Gary A. Udashen was co-course director for the Innocence Work for Lawyers Seminar, sponsored by the Innocence Project of Texas and the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, held in Austin on August 17–18, 2023. Udashen also spoke on Legal Issues in Texas Wrongful Conviction Cases.
Gary A. Udashen spoke at the State Bar of Texas Advanced Criminal Law Course in Houston on July 25, 2023, on Ineffective Assistance of Counsel.
Gary A. Udashen Was Featured in an Article in the Voice for the Defense Concerning the Recent Exoneration of Mallory Nicholson.
Gary A. Udashen spoke at the Handling Your First (Or Next) Writ of Habeas Corpus seminar sponsored by the State Bar of Texas in Austin on November 18, 2022, on the topic of “New Science Writs Under Art. 11.073.
Gary A. Udashen spoke at the Annual Program: Establishing Innocence or Guilt in Plano, Texas, sponsored by the Center for American and International Law on August 24, 2022, on the topic of “Legal Issues in Texas Wrongful Conviction Cases.”
Gary A. Udashen has been listed in the 2023 Edition of Best Lawyers in America in the areas of Appellate Practice, Criminal Defense: General Practice and Criminal Defense: White Collar.
Gary A. Udashen was the co-course director for the Actual Innocence for Lawyers seminar on August 4–5, 2022, in Austin.
Gary A. Udashen spoke at the State Bar of Texas Advanced Criminal Law course in Dallas on July 20, 2022, on Ineffective Assistance of Counsel.
Gary A. Udashen has been selected as a 2022 Texas Super Lawyer. Udashen has received this recognition for 20 years in a row, every year since this award began. Out of 93,821 attorneys in Texas, only 679 attorneys have been selected to Super Lawyers for all 20 years.
Gary A. Udashen was part of an innocence project team which obtained the exoneration and declaration of actual innocence for a man wrongfully convicted of sexual assault and burglary in Dallas County in 1982.
Gary A. Udashen has been listed as an AV Preeminent Attorney for 2022 by Martindale-Hubbell. AV Preeminent rating is the highest peer rating standard. This is given to attorneys who are ranked at the highest level of professional excellence for their legal expertise, communication skills, and ethical standards by their peers.
Gary A. Udashen spoke to Texas judges at the 2022 Criminal Justice Conference in Austin on February 17, 2022 on the topic of Legal Issues in Texas Wrongful Conviction cases.
Gary A. Udashen has been listed in the 2022 edition of “Best Lawyers in America” in the areas of Appellate Practice, Criminal Defense: General Practice and Criminal Defense: White Collar.
Gary A. Udashen spoke at the Annual Program on Establishing Innocence or Guilt sponsored by the Center for American and International Law on August 25, 2021 on the topic of Update on Legal Issues on Texas Wrongful Conviction Cases.
Gary A. Udashen was the co-course director for the Actual Innocence For Lawyers Seminar sponsored by the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and the Innocence Project of Texas on August 5–6, 2021. Mr. Udashen also spoke at the seminar on the topic of Update on Legal Issues on Texas Wrongful Conviction Cases.
Gary A. Udashen spoke at the State Bar of Texas Advanced Criminal Law Course on July 20, 2021, on the topic of “Ineffective Assistance of Counsel.”
Gary A. Udashen spoke on May 13, 2021, at the 2021 Robert O. Dawson Conference on Criminal Appeals on the topic of “Ineffective Assistance of Counsel and State Misconduct” (co-presented with Dallas County Assistant District Attorney Cynthia Garza).
Gary A. Udashen spoke at the seminar, “Establishing Innocence or Guilt” sponsored by the Center for American and International Law on November 3,2020 on the topic of “Legal Issues in Texas Innocence Cases.”
Gary A. Udashen spoke at the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association Post-Conviction Seminar on October 29,2020 on the topic of State Applications For Writs of Habeas Corpus.
Gary A. Udashen was a panelist for a program entitled, “Guilty Until Proven Innocent: A Conversation with Richard Miles,” on July 16, 2020, sponsored by the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum.
Gary A. Udashen spoke at the State Bar of Texas Advanced Criminal Law Course on July 13, 2020 on the topic of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel.
Gary A. Udashen participated in a panel discussion at the seminar, “Convicting the Wrong Person – What Went Wrong and What We Can Do About It,” at the Center for American and International Law on March 3, 2020, in Plano, Texas on the topic of “Common Causes of Wrongful Convictions and Recent Developments.”
Gary A. Udashen spoke at the seminar, “Establishing Innocence or Guilt” at the Center for American and International Law on February 26, 2020, in Plano, Texas, on the topic of “Legal Issues in Texas Innocence Cases.”
Gary A. Udashen participated in a panel discussion sponsored by the Dallas Bar Association on the topic of Criminal Justice Reform on October 2,2019.
Gary A. Udashen spoke at the Annual Program: Establishing Innocence or Guilt sponsored by the Center for American and International Law in Plano on August 28, 2019, on the topic of Legal Issues in Texas Innocence cases.
Gary A. Udashen spoke at the Advanced Criminal Law Course sponsored by the State Bar of Texas in Dallas on July 22, 2019, on the topic of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel and on July 24, 2019, on the topic of Actual Innocence in the 21st Century: A Herculean, But Not Impossible Task.
Gary A. Udashen spoke at the 2019 Robert O. Dawson Conference on Criminal Appeals in Austin on May 1, 2019, on the topic of Working With Conviction Integrity Units. This presentation was made jointly with Cynthia Garza, Chief of the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office Conviction Integrity Unit.
- Actual Innocence in Criminal Cases
- The Use of Polygraphs in Criminal Cases
- Georgia v. Randolph and Warrantless Searches
- Sentencing Departures in the Post-Booker Era
- Kansas v. Marsh and the Presumption of Death
- Restrictions on Cross-Examination of Prosecution Witnesses
- The Supreme Court’s Dilemma in Addressing Lethal Injection
- Fixing the Problems of Eyewitness Identification
- Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions
- Understanding the Law Governing Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- The Insanity Defense in Texas
- Allegations of Attorney Malpractice in Criminal Cases
- Deportation and Criminal Convictions
- A Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Duties Regarding the Immigration Consequences of a Criminal Conviction
Practice Areas
- Child Abuse
- Conspiracy
- Driving While Intoxicated (DWI)
- Drug Offenses
- Family Violence
- Federal Sentencing
- Innocence Claims
- Investigations/Grand Jury Presentations
- Juvenile
- Sexual Offenses
- State and Federal Appeals
- State and Federal Habeas Corpus
- State and Federal Trials
- Theft and Property Crimes
- Violent Offenses
- White Collar
