Todd Tkach

Mark you retained me to represent you for an outstanding warrant for a speeding citation in the Grapevine Municipal Court. We posted a surety bond, which lifted the warrant. We then appeared in court for you on April 10, 2017. At that time, we entered a plea, which kept this citation off of your driving record. You claim that we never sent you notice of the plea. However, three days after the plea, on April 13, 2017, we sent you a “Case Over Letter” notifying you of the plea and instructing you on how, where and when to make your fine payment. The Case Over Letter was sent to you by regular mail and email. On that same day, the letter was also uploaded to our online case management system for you to view and a notice that the letter was available for you to view was emailed to you from our computer system. On that same day, we also sent you a text message to your cell phone number informing you that we had resolved your case and instructed you to check your mail, email or login to our system to view the Case Over Letter. So, three days after the plea, we notified you of the result of your case in 4 different ways: 1.) regular mail, 2.) email, 3.) online, and 4.) text message. Unfortunately, you never made your fine payment. For that reason, the court set a show cause hearing for August 17, 2017. On July 7, 2017, the Court mailed you a notice of the Show Cause hearing, instructing you to be in court on August 17, 2017. You did not appear in court and you have denied receiving that notice, as well. As you well know, our representation of you did NOT include representation at a show cause hearing. We didn’t hear from you until approximately October 20, 2017 when you apparently received notice that the court had issued a warrant. At that time, you called us and hired me once again and paid me an additional fee to try to correct your failure to pay your fine. Had we failed to notify you of the original plea, as you claim, why would you call me and pay me an additional fee to correct the problem? We have tried to work with you to solve your problem. I have called you twice today, but you have not taken my calls. However, you did call and talk with one of my assistants, who informed me that you began yelling, used bad language and hung up on her.