Results

• Bruce Anton and Brett Ordiway won the reversal of a more than decade-old drug conviction, saving their client from deportation.

• Brett Ordiway and Bruce Anton won the reversal of a conviction for tampering with evidence, persuading the court of appeals that the evidence at trial showed only a lesser offense.

• Brett Ordiway and Bruce Anton won the reversal of a guilty plea to unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, persuading Texas’s highest criminal court that their client’s guilty plea was involuntary because the police made material misrepresentations in offense reports.

• Bruce Anton and Brett Ordiway won the reversal of a guilty plea to possessing, manufacturing, transporting, or repairing a prohibited weapon, persuading the trial court that their client’s previous attorney provided ineffective assistance and, as result, that the client’s guilty plea was involuntary.

• Brett Ordiway and Bruce Anton persuaded Texas’s Sixth Court of Appeals that their client’s direct-appeal attorney provided ineffective assistance, winning their client a new appeal.

• Bruce Anton and Brett Ordiway won the reversal of a conviction for possession of fraudulent identifying information and nine-year prison sentence, persuading Texas’s highest criminal court that their client’s guilty plea was involuntary and his right to due process was violated.

• Brett Ordiway and Bruce Anton won the reversal of a conviction for criminally negligent homicide and the rendering of a judgment of acquittal in a case in which the state prosecuted a grieving parent for tragically forgetting his child in a car on a summer day.

• Bruce Anton and Brett Ordiway won the reversal of a 16-year-old guilty plea to tampering with a governmental record on the basis that, at the time of the plea, the client was not aware of possible defenses to the charge. 

• 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.

• Bruce Anton won the reversal of a guilty plea for indecency with a child, persuading the trial court that his client’s plea was involuntary and his right to due process was violated.

• Bruce Anton and Brett Ordiway won the reversal of a 15-year-old guilty plea to possessing marijuana that threatened their client with deportation. Bruce and Brett persuaded the court that their client’s plea was involuntary because he did not understand its immigration consequences.

• Bruce Anton and Brett Ordiway won the reversal of a conviction for forgery of a financial instrument, persuading the trial court that their client’s guilty plea was involuntary, and his right to due process was violated.

• Bruce Anton and Madison McWithey won a not guilty verdict for a young man charged with murder in Denton County on the basis of self-defense. 

• Brett Ordiway and Bruce Anton won the reversal of a conviction for failing to register as a sex offender, persuading Texas’s highest criminal court that their client was innocent.