Emergency? Call Now - How to read this page. These are outcomes in cases I handled, in Bexar County and surrounding counties. Each one happened because of the particular evidence in that particular case, and none of them predicts what will happen in yours. What a results page can honestly show you is the kind of case a lawyer actually tries, in what courts, and how often a case ends before a jury is ever picked. That is worth knowing. It is not a promise, and no lawyer in Texas is permitted to make you one.
Melissa Perez trial: three former SAPD officers acquitted, November 2025
On November 10, 2025, after a month-long trial in Bexar County, a jury returned not-guilty verdicts for three former San Antonio police officers charged in the June 2023 shooting death of Melissa Perez. I represented Eleazar Alejandro. The jury began deliberating at 1:17 p.m. and returned its verdicts roughly ninety minutes later.
Verdicts, November 10, 2025, Bexar County
| Former officer | Charges submitted | Verdict |
| Eleazar Alejandro (represented by Del Prado Law) | Murder, aggravated assault, deadly conduct | Not guilty on all counts |
| Alfred Flores | Murder, aggravated assault, deadly conduct | Not guilty on all counts |
| Nathaniel Villalobos | Aggravated assault, deadly conduct | Not guilty on all counts |
The defense challenged both the State’s theory of the shooting and the police investigation behind it, including the assignment of a lead investigator who had never investigated an officer-involved shooting, and a search warrant affidavit in which the department itself had described the conduct as aggravated assault on a peace officer. The case is a matter of public record and was covered daily by KSAT and the San Antonio Express-News.
Read the full account of the trial, with sources .
Capital murder dismissed, June 2026
In June 2026 a capital murder case I was handling was dismissed before trial. Capital murder is the most serious accusation in Texas law, carrying life without parole and, where the State seeks it, the death penalty.
A dismissal in a case of that size does not come from a speech. It comes from reading every page of the file, identifying what the State could not prove, and putting that in front of the prosecutor in a form a chief has to take seriously.
All charges dismissed in Guadalupe County, 2026
An educator was accused of aggravated sexual assault of a child, indecency with a child, and improper relationship between educator and student. All charges were dismissed before trial.
A conviction on the lead count would have carried a first degree felony range of five to ninety-nine years or life, and lifetime sex offender registration. The work was document work: the law enforcement records, the witness statements and the digital communications, examined against each other for what did not line up, then presented to the prosecutor as a proof problem rather than as an argument.
Over thirty-five years of practice
Across a career that began in the 1980s, this firm has obtained jury verdicts of not guilty on charges including:
- Capital murder
- Murder
- Aggravated sexual assault
- Injury to a child
- Aggravated assault
- Deadly conduct
- Driving while intoxicated
And has obtained dismissals of charges including:
- Capital murder
- Aggravated sexual assault of a child
- Indecency with a child
- Improper relationship between educator and student
- Injury to the elderly
- Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon
- Family violence assault by impeding breath or circulation
- Family violence assault
- Possession of a controlled substance
- False report to a peace officer
What is better than a verdict of not guilty is a case that never reaches a jury. A dismissal ends the matter without a verdict, without a conviction, and usually without the client ever having to sit in front of twelve strangers while his life is discussed.
What this page does not tell you
It does not tell you about the cases that ended in a conviction or in a plea, because any lawyer who has tried cases for thirty-five years has those, and a page that shows only wins is telling you something by what it leaves out.
It does not tell you what your case is worth. Two cases with the same offense name can be entirely different cases, and usually are.
And it does not tell you that any result here can be repeated. Under the rules that govern Texas lawyers I could not tell you that, and I would not believe another lawyer who told you.
What you should take from it is narrower and, I think, more useful. These are serious charges, tried or fought to a conclusion in Texas courts, by a lawyer who was still doing it last year. That is the practice.
If you want to talk about your own case
Call 210-663-3750 . I answer my own phone. Have the cause number, the court, and the next setting date if you have them.
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