Gotro, Esq.
Posted on 07/02/2019 7:10:22 AM PDT by Elderberry
The law license of the firebrand Houston attorney who won a mistrial in the only Twin Peaks shootout case to go to trial has been suspended by the State Bar of Texas.
Casie Gotro will be unable to practice law for three years and must pay $59,000 in restitution to clients she failed to serve, the State Bar announced Monday.
The decision comes a year after Gotro and Dallas attorney Clint Broden won the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association Percy Foreman Lawyers of the Year award for their representation of bikers in the deadly 2015 showdown at the former Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco.
Gotro represented Jacob Carrizal, president of the Dallas Bandidos chapter, in a 2017 trial, but the sanctions do not appear to be related to that case. Gotro did not respond to a message left through Thomas Lane, her co-counsel in Carrizal's case, and previous phone number listed in Gotro's name was out of service on Monday.
During the Carrizal proceedings, Gotro and former McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna's office constantly butted heads over defense access to evidence in the case. Gotro succeeded in getting 19th State District Judge Ralph Strother recused from Carrizal's case based on the question of the judge's ability to be fair in the case.
Carrizal’s trial was delayed on at least three occasions after Gotro uncovered evidence that Reyna's office should have turned over to the defense before trial but did not do so.
During one of the revelations, an angry Gotro stormed out of the courtroom during a break, calling back over her shoulder that the DA’s office failure to disclose evidence was criminal.
Carrizal's trial ended in mistrial in November 2017 when the jury could not reach unanimous verdicts in any of the three counts against Carrizal.
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Gotro, Esq.
spooky ping
Not guilty!
Amazing, a lawyer beats the corrupt legal system for her client, then the rest of the establishment legal business (after, judges were lawyers) beats her down for daring to call it out.
She probably owns guns, goes to church and votes other than D.
One of us deplorables. Bless her
I still think unnamed Fed agencies were behind the abuse. Mirrors the Branch Davidian tragedy.
You’re an idiot. Don’t you know how to read?
She was suspended for cheating clients in three other cases, keeping (stealing)money that belonged to the clients, not performing services other clients had paid for, refusing to answer clients questions about their cases, hiding information from the state bar.
Morons like you love to bad mouth lawyers as thieves then refuse to acknowledge when they are punished.
Yep, that’s the official version published by the association. Feel free to believe it.
Why do you swallow what her enemies claim?
Thanks for info, very good on this case.
She was also reprimanded for failure to pay State Bar fees (I assume State Bar dues), that with the 3 other matters looks to me like someone having some sort of personal/professional crisis. Maybe the Waco case just took to much of her time, attention and resources. It can happen.
Because the state bar doesnt get away with taking discipline without court evidence.
Because the state bar doesnt get away with taking discipline without court evidence.
Well guess what, moron, she can challenge it in court. Which she has not and which she has said she is not going to. So guess what, conspiracy nut, she is guilty of the charges. Duh!
Things must be slow at the manure plant today.
You could very well be right. But she could have asserted those factors in mitigation before the final suspension order was decided.
Your faith in tyhe ‘state bar’ is touching.
Duh! Some of us have dealt with them for 40 years, unlike the uneducated fools who play keyboard warrior. Yeah, experience actually is worth something.
State bars are political operations.
When you deal with your state bar, do you lose your cool as you do each time you post here?
I can easily deal with stupid people. Its the insufferable combination of stupidity +arrogance that tests my patience.
its not just the shocking level of stupidity that has existed on FR for some time but the pride some of you take in being stupid.
THERE is a Reason many of the brighter people moved on.
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