The age of consent for general sexual intercourse, as you’ve described, is 17 in Texas. If the question is about whether a successful report could...

Hire another lawyer to review your charges and their possible disposition. If your original attorney retired, you need someone to pick the case up...

You or your son need to gather together whatever resources you can to hire a lawyer, if he can’t get one appointed to him. There isn’t any recourse...

Who has he spoken to that gave him this information? He needs to hire a defense attorney in Texas, and one in Mississippi.

She needs to file a police report against him. Stalking is a crime in Texas. Whether what you did is legal is up to the perspective of any law...

She can’t simply “throw out” the case— she filed a very serious criminal report against you, one that could lead to decades in prison. She can file...

The student can hire a lawyer to defend him. The penalties for academic dishonesty in college can be quite severe. The case can still move forward...

The age gap is creepy, for sure. I hope you haven’t been exchanging sexually-explicit images, messages, etc., because that could lead to criminal...

Atty. Harkess is absolutely right. While there may be some means of recovery in a civil court, the 50+ year wait to bring a claim will present a...

It's not illegal to call someone a snitch, and it's certainly not a crime. If the only thing that can be reported is that you called someone...