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 storyA custody case trap involving a terminally ill spouseA juvenile case won on a one-year date discrepancyAn interstate protective order case won on a technical pleading defectHow silence and body language can bait a prosecutor into a bad plea offerThe corpus delicti rule and how it can undo a “confession” caseWhy judges rule with reelection in mind, and what that means for clientsAn opposing counsel who accidentally became a witness in her own caseA one-story house that blew up a protective order allegation