CRIMINAL DEFENSE
When the State Builds a Case Against You, the Details Matter.
An arrest is not a conviction. A police report is not the final word. And the version of events presented by the State is not the only version that matters.
John Green is a former prosecutor who now represents people accused of crimes throughout Central Texas. Before opening his own firm, John prosecuted cases in Guadalupe County. He has stood on the other side of the courtroom, evaluated evidence for the State, worked with law enforcement, negotiated cases, and prepared cases for trial.
Today, that experience is put to work for the defense.
The job is not to assume the State got it right. The job is to find out.
A Criminal Case Is More Than the Charge on the Paper.
For the person accused, a criminal case can affect a job, a professional license, a driver's license, a relationship, an education, and a reputation that took years to build.
That is why the defense starts with the actual case—not assumptions about what usually happens to someone charged with the same offense.
What does the evidence show? What does it leave out? Were the stop, detention, search, or arrest lawful? What did the witnesses actually say? Is there video? Are the statements consistent with the physical evidence? What can the State prove, and what can it not prove?
Those questions matter.
So does understanding what you need from the case.
Sometimes the objective is getting a charge dismissed. Sometimes it is keeping a conviction off a record, protecting a driver's license, negotiating an outcome that limits the damage, or preparing to put the State to its burden at trial.
There is no responsible way to decide that strategy before understanding the facts.
CRIMINAL DEFENSE
Criminal Cases We Handle
Full pages already on this site: San Marcos DWI, MIP, Kyle DWI, and Texas State students.
DWI & Intoxication Offenses
A DWI case can involve much more than a breath or blood result. The reason for the traffic stop, roadside investigation, field sobriety testing, body-camera video, warrant process, laboratory evidence, and the circumstances surrounding an arrest can all matter.
Assault & Family Violence
Assault allegations often begin with conflicting accounts of an incident that happened quickly and under difficult circumstances. Statements, injuries, photographs, recordings, witnesses, self-defense issues, and the history between the people involved can change how a case should be evaluated.
Murder & Serious Felony Offenses
When the accusation is among the most serious in Texas law, there is no substitute for careful preparation. Murder and other serious felony cases can involve extensive investigations, forensic evidence, digital evidence, witness testimony, expert analysis, questions of intent, and issues of self-defense or justification. Every part of the State's case must be examined.
Drug Charges
Possession and other drug cases can raise questions about searches, traffic stops, warrants, ownership, knowledge, laboratory testing, and whether the State can actually connect the accused person to the substance it claims was possessed.
Theft & Property Offenses
Theft cases can turn on intent, ownership, identification, value, and circumstances that are not always apparent from an initial police report.
Student Criminal Defense
An arrest or criminal accusation can create consequences beyond the courthouse for a college student. Students may face university disciplinary proceedings, educational consequences, housing issues, or concerns about their future in addition to the criminal case itself.
Our San Marcos office is located next to Texas State University.
Other Criminal Charges
Not every case fits neatly into a category. The firm represents people facing misdemeanor and felony allegations across a range of Texas criminal matters.
BUILDING THE DEFENSE
The State Has a Head Start.
By the time someone is arrested, law enforcement may already have spent hours, days, or longer building the case.
Reports have been written. Witnesses may have been interviewed. Videos have been collected. Evidence may have been submitted for testing. A prosecutor may eventually inherit all of it in a file with your name on the front.
The defense has to build its own understanding of what happened.
That means obtaining the evidence, studying it, identifying what is missing, testing the State's assumptions, researching the law, and determining where the case is strong and where it is vulnerable.
John's experience as a former prosecutor provides an additional perspective in that process. He knows how prosecutors are taught to evaluate a case because he has done that work himself.
He also knows that a police report is the beginning of the analysis—not the end of it.
What Happens After an Arrest?
The criminal process can move quickly while feeling painfully slow.
There may be bond conditions to follow, court settings to attend, evidence that has not yet been produced, driver's-license deadlines in certain cases, and decisions that should not be made until the defense has enough information to make them intelligently.
You should not have to guess what each stage means.
At The Law Offices of John Green, the process begins with understanding what happened, where the case stands, and what needs attention now. From there, the evidence is reviewed and a strategy develops around the facts, the law, and your objectives.
You should know what is happening in your case—and why.
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
Former Prosecutor. Defense Attorney.
John Green began his legal career prosecuting criminal cases in Guadalupe County.
That experience matters, but not because prosecutors possess some secret formula.
It matters because criminal cases look different depending on which side of the courtroom you are standing on.
As a prosecutor, John learned to evaluate evidence with the question:
Can the State prove this case?
As a defense attorney, there is another question:
Can they prove it against you?
Those are not always the same thing.
CENTRAL TEXAS CRIMINAL DEFENSE
The Courts Where John Built His Career.
The Law Offices of John Green is based in San Marcos and represents criminal defendants throughout Central Texas, including Hays, Guadalupe, and Comal Counties.
John handles cases in the communities and courts where he has built his legal career, including matters arising in and around San Marcos, New Braunfels, Seguin, and the surrounding area.
Whether this is your first encounter with the criminal justice system or you have been through it before, the starting point is the same:
Find out exactly where you stand.
THE LAW OFFICES OF JOHN GREEN, PLLC
Your Case Deserves a Defense Built Around Your Case.
A criminal charge puts the power of the State on the other side of the courtroom.
You deserve to know what the evidence actually says, what your options actually are, and what your lawyer intends to do about it.
Start with a conversation.
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