Legal Traps Lawyers Set (And Fall Into): Real Texas Courtroom Stories

Brett Pritchard and Jeff Linik break down the legal trap: the strategy that looks smart on paper until it backfires. They share trap stories from their own careers, cases where the state or opposing counsel got caught by a technicality, a fact they didn’t know, or their own overconfidence, plus a few cases where Brett and Jeff got trapped themselves early on. They also close the loop on the mowing DWI story from Episode 1.

Topics covered:

• The conclusion of the Episode 1 mowing DWI story
• A custody case trap involving a terminally ill spouse
• A juvenile case won on a one-year date discrepancy
• An interstate protective order case won on a technical pleading defect
• How silence and body language can bait a prosecutor into a bad plea offer
• The corpus delicti rule and how it can undo a “confession” case
• Why judges rule with reelection in mind, and what that means for clients
• An opposing counsel who accidentally became a witness in her own case
• A one-story house that blew up a protective order allegation