Houston Criminal Defense Attorney

Our Case Results

A Proven History of Delivering Favorable Outcomes
  • Case Dismissed
    BURGLARY WITH INTENT TO COMMIT SEXUAL ASSAULT
    Client is accused of attempting to push his way into a woman's apartment with the intent to sexually assault her. First attorney recommended client plead guilty and except 8 years in prison. Jed Silverman takes over case and proves woman in lying. Client goes home to his family.
  • Case No Billed and Dismissed
    FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIRE ARM

    Client a convicted felon is inside of his home when police raid home and find a gun in his bedroom.

  • Case No Billed by Grand Jury
    INDECENCY WITH A CHILD
    Client, a physician, is accused of having sex with two 16 year old girls.
  • JURY VERDICT NOT GUILTY ON INTOXICATION ASSSAULT
    INTOXICATION ASSAULT
    Client involved in 4-car accident. 3 empty bottles of wine in vehicle. Client admits, on video, that she is impaired. One of the passengers in the other vehicle suffers a fractured Tibia. Client facing an aggravated 2-10 years in prison.
  • Not Guilty
    Murder
    Client accused of murder. Resulted in not guilty verdict by jury.
  • Case Dismissed
    Murder
    Client accused of killing her boyfriend. Case pre-indictment.
  • Case Dismissed
    POSSESSION OF COCAINE (1-4 GRAMS)
    Client driving through Jefferson Parish Louisiana, cocaine found in center console of his vehicle case dismissed immediately before Motion to Suppress hearing began.
  • Case Dismissed
    SEXUAL ASSAULT
    Client is a chiropractor who is accused of committing sexual assault while examining a patient. Client confesses to offense in a written statement.
  • Case Dismissed
    TERROSTIC THREAT
    Client accused of threatening to kill a person .
  • Jury Verdict Not Guilty
    SOLICITATION/PROSTITUTION
    Client, former NFL football player accused of prostitution, alleged agreement to have sex for money recorded by under cover officer Case widely covered by all new organizations in the United States.
  • Jury Verdict Not Guilty
    SOLICITATION/PROSTITUTION
    Client employed at Asian massage parlor. Police officer testifies that client agreed to have sex for money.
  • Case Dismissed
    SOLICITATION/PROSTITUTION
    Client is on tape agreeing to engage in sex for money.
  • Case Dismissed
    POSSESSION OF CODEINE
    Client is stopped for speeding. Vehicle searched. Pure liquid codeine is found on passenger seat.
  • Case Dismisssed
    POSSESSION OF ONE GRAM OF COCAINE
    Client is pulled over for weaving. As the client is stopping the police officer claims he sees client throw a baggy of cocaine out of vehicle. 2-10 year possible punishment.
  • Case Dismissed
    POSSESSION OF ONE KILOGRAM OF COCAINE AND A FIREARM
    Cocaine recovered when police officers searched client's motel room.
  • Case Dismissed
    POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DELIVER ONE POUND OF COCAINE
    Narcotics squad gets search warrant to search my client's home. Detectives stop client in vehicle near home and find one pound of cocaine in vehicle. Client immediately confesses that cocaine is his. Home is searched numerous weapons recovered. Client gives 30 minute video taped confession that has been selling two kilos of cocaine a month for many years. 15 - Life punishment range.
  • Case Dismissed
    POSSSESSION OF 50 POUNDS OF MARIJUANA
    Client's apartment searched with a search warrant and 50 pounds of marijuana recovered.
  • Case Dismissed
    Prostitution
    Client is driving down the street and is approached by under cover police officer, posing as a prostitute, under cover officer negotiates sex for a fee and client is arrested.
  • Case Dismissed
    Prostitution
    Client, employed by Treasures, is secretly tape recorded by undercover police officer allegedly agreeing to have sex for a fee.
  • Case No Billed by Grand Jury, Case Dismissed
    Robbery
    Client goes into convenient store and stealing merchandise as he wrestles with clerk.
  • Case Dismissed
    ROBBERY
    Client is identified by complainant as person that hit and robbed him. I put together a grand jury packet and convince grand jury that this was a case of mistaken identification.
  • Deferred Adjudication
    MURDER
    Client is driver in drive by shooting. Admits in a confession that he knew his co-defendant was going to commit the murder. Client received deferred adjudication, while co-defendant receives 35 years in prison.
  • Case Dismissed
    OBTAINING DRUGS BY FRAUD
    Client goes into Walgreens with a forged prescription. Clerk refuses to sell client drugs. Client arrested outside store.
  • Case Dismissed
    POSSESSION OF 1/2 POUND OF MARIJUANA
    Client pulled over for speeding with 1/2 pounds of marijuana in her car. Client facing up to two years in State Jail.
  • Case Dismissed
    POSSESSION OF 14,000 LORACET
    15 - Life punishment range. Client is stopped for weaving. Drugs found in headliner of vehicle.
  • Not Guilty Trial Verdict
    POSSESSION OF 32 GRAMS OF CRACK COCAINE
    Client accused of possessing 32 grams of crack cocaine that was recovered from his glove compartment. Odor of marijuana was present in car. Client admitted to smoking marijuana.
  • Case Dismissed
    POSSESSION OF 4 POUNDS OF MARIJUANA AND POSSESSION OF A HYDROPONIC SYSTEM
    Case Dismissed
  • Case Dismissed
    POSSESSION OF 42 GRAMS OF CRACK COCAINE
    Client involved in drug transaction in Baytown, Texas. Co-defendant dies in the course of evading and arrest.
  • Case Dismissed
    POSSESSION OF 5 POUNDS OF MARIJUANA
    Client pulled over for speeding with 5 pounds of marijuana in her car. Client facing up to two years in State Jail.
  • CASE REDUCED TO A MISDEMEANOR
    POSSESSION OF 50 POUNDS OF MARIJUANA
    Client operating a 18 wheeler with 50 pounds of marijuana in the storage area, in the state of New Mexico.
  • CASE REDUCED TO FEDERAL MISDEMEANOR
    POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
    Client stopped at U. S. Federal checkpoint 90 miles from DelRio, Texas. Drugs found in paper bag in back seat. The case was reduced to a federal misdemeanor with 3 years' probation.
  • Case Dismissed
    POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE (COCAINE)
    Client is pulled over for traffic offense. Cocaine is found in clients pocket. Client was facing 20 years in prison.
  • HUNG JURY, CASE DISMISSED
    POSSESSION OF COCAINE
    Client in a bar when police raid bar. Police officers claim the see client throw down cocaine. Officers testify that they were less than one foot away from client when they observe him thrown cocaine down.
  • Case Dismissed
    POSSESSION OF COCAINE
    Client is stopped for traffic offense. Cocaine found in client's jacket pocket.
  • NO BILLED BY GRAND JURY.
    INTOXICATION MANSLAUGHTER
    Client pulls out of bar. Strikes/Get struck by another vehicle. Driver of other vehicle dies. Client's blood is tested, comes back a .20. Attorney has extensive accident reconstruction done. Client charged with misdemeanor D.W.I.
  • Case Dismissed
    JUVENILE CERTIFICATION HEARING

    Client accused of indecency with a child. State’s petition to certify denied. Hearing Jefferson County.

  • Case Dismissed
    MONEY LAUNDERING
    Client is allegedly involved in a drug conspiracy and is stopped with $16,000.
  • Case Dismissed
    MOTION TO REVOKE FELONY PROBATION
    Client on Felony probation for forgery. Facing 10 years in prison. Attorney able to prove probation officer being untruthful, motion to revoke probation
  • Jury Verdict, Not Guilty
    INDECENCY WITH A CHILD
    Jury Verdict, Not Guilty
  • Case Dismissed
    INDECENCY WITH A CHILD
    Client is accused of molesting his stepdaughter, confesses to a friend that he committed offense.
  • Case Reduced to Misdemeanor, 1 Year Probation
    INJURY TO AN ELDERLY PERSON
    Client, an architect, gets into an argument with his 78 year old father in law. Father in law is shoved and he falls and fractures his arm.
  • Case Dismissed
    INTERFERING WITH THE DUTIES OF A PUBLIC SERVANT
    Client, a Harris County Sherriff's Deputy, arrested at his own wedding.
  • Reduced to Misdemeanor, 1 Year Probation
    INTOXICATION ASSAULT
    Intoxication assault out of the 337 District Court Harris County reduced to DWI first offense one year probation.
  • Case Dismissed
    FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM
    Client pulled over for speeding in Houston, Texas. Gun found in center console. Client facing 2-20 years in prison.
  • Case Dismissed
    FELONY ASSAULT
    Client is accused of assaulting his girl friend on at least two occasions. State took photographs depicting victim to have a black eye and swollen lip.
  • Case Dismissed
    FELONY CHILD ENDANGERMENT
    Client is passed out in a hotel room with empty alcohol containers in room. Four year old grandson wonders to front desk and brings hotel security to the room. Client charged with child endangerment. Case covered by ABC news.
  • Case Reduced to Misdemeanor, 1 Year Probation
    FELONY CHILD ENDANGERMENT
    Client leaves child unattended for one hour in locked vehicle. Police recover child and arrest mother.
  • Case Dismissed
    Felony D.W.I.
    Client accused of D.W.I. Serious Car accident
  • Case Dismissed
    FELONY D.W.I. (4TH DWI) .160 BLOOD TEST
    Client involved in accident. Fails filed sobriety tests.
  • Case Dismissed
    FELONY D.W.I. .180 BREATH TEST
    Client involved in accident. Fails filed sobriety tests. Takes breath test, score = .180.
  • Case No Billed and Dismissed
    FELONY DWI
    Client smashes into a pole and is arrested for his third DWI.
  • Reduced to Misdemeanor
    FELONY DWI WITH CHILD PASSENGER

    Felony DWI with child passenger , Chambers County, Tx reduced to DWI first offense misdemeanor. 17 month probation.

  • Case Dismissed
    FELONY EVADING IN A MOTOR VEHICLE
    Client fails to stop for a marked police unit for four blocks in Harris County, Texas.
  • Case Dismissed
    FORGERY
    Client went to bank with forged check in order to cash check. Bank realized check was forged and called police. Client confessed. Case took place in Harris County.
  • Case Dismissed
    INDECENCY WITH A CHILD
    Client 17 years old is accused of having sex with a 13 year old girl. Client confesses to police about the sex. Case no billed by grand jury.
  • Case Dismissed
    COUNTERFEITING
    Client accepts money from a friend while working at a store that is counterfeit. U.S. Secret Service agents get client to confess that he was "in on" the on" the counterfeit laundering.
  • Case Dismissed
    CRMINAL POLLUTION
    Client arrested for dumping gasoline into a fresh water source.
  • Not Guilty Jury Verdict
    D.W.I.
    Client accused of D.W.I. Involuntary Intoxication defense.
  • Not Guilty Jury Verdict
    D.W.I.
    Client accused of D.W.I. Serious Car accident, client ran into building.
  • NOT GUILTY JURY VERDICT
    D.W.I. 191 BREATH TEST
    Client stopped for speeding. Fails field Sobriety tests. Takes breath test (.191 score).
  • Motion to Suppress Granted, Case Dismissed
    D.W.I. 20 BREATH TEST
    Client stopped for reckless driving. Fails field sobriety tests, takes breath test and scores a .20 blood alcohol level.
  • NOT PROVEN
    DATE RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT TITLE IX

    Client accused of date rape and sexual assault. He is a Rice University student. The Allegation was found not proven. The student was permitted to return to class with no adverse findings against him.

  • Case Dismissed
    DWI
    Stopped for running a red light, fails field sobriety tests ,blood is drawn and comes back .19.
  • Hung Jury, Case Dismissed
    DWI
    Client accused of D.W.I., car accident where other party killed in accident. Breath test .09.
  • Case Dismissed
    DWI
    Client involved in accident, fails field sobriety tests, arrested and proceeds to cuss out arresting officers.
  • 10 Year Probation, No Prison Time
    DWI (6 Th DWI)
    Client involved in accident, numerous open containers in vehicle, police get a mandatory blood test, results come back .29 blood alcohol level.
  • Jury Verdict, Not Guilty
    DWI .11 BREATH TEST
    Client is pulled over for weaving and almost striking another vehicle. Takes and fails field sobriety tests. Submits to breath test and blows a .11 breath alcohol level.
  • Case Dismissed
    DWI .13 BLOOD TEST
    Client is pulled over for running railroad crossing. Client fails field sobriety tests. Police officer gets a warrant for a blood test. Blood test .13.
  • Jury Verdict - Not Guilty
    DWI .14 BLOOD TEST
    Client smashed into house, failed all field sobriety tests. Harris County
  • Not Guilty
    DWI .16 BREATH TEST
    Client is pulled over for speeding. Prior to pulling over client had vomited all over car and himself, fails field sobriety tests and scores a .16 on the breath test.
  • Jury deliberates 4 hours. Not guilty verdict.
    DWI BREATH TEST .16 CLIENT ALSO ACCUSED OF ALLUDING POLICE
    Officer attempted to pull over client for reckless driving. Client does not pull over for three minutes. After traffic stop client fails all filed sobriety tests and submits to a breath test. Breath test comes back .16 (twice the legal limit).
  • Case dismissed.
    DWI CLIENT ACCUSED OF BEING IMPAIRED BY WAY OF DRUGS
    Client involved in major accident and taken to hospital. Client consents to blood test. Amphetamine and Meth discovered in clients blood.
  • Jury Verdict - Not Guilty
    DWI WITH .17 BAC
  • Case Dismissed
    EVADING ARREST
    Client accused of throwing cocaine out of his vehicle and then fleeing from police in a motor vehicle.
  • Case Dismissed
    FALSE STATEMENT TO OBTAIN CREDIT
    Client is accused of using a straw person to obtain credit to buy a vehicle.
  • CASE REDUCED TO MISDEMEANOR, 2 YEARS PROBATION
    AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
    Client stabs husband during an argument.
  • Case Dismissed
    AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
    Client beats up complainant with a base ball bat and fractures his skull.
  • CASE REDUCED TO MISDEMEANOR TIME SERVED
    AGGRAVATED ASSAULT OF A PEACE OFFICER
    Client is detained based on a trespassing call. Client charges police officers with a knife. Officers release police dog to stop client.
  • Case Dismissed
    AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON
    Client drives vehicle at her ex husband trying to run him over.
  • Jury Verdict Not Guilty
    AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON
    Client accused of pointing a pistol at his girl friend.
  • Charges Reduced, No Jail Time
    ARSON OF A HOME
    Clients' home burns down and client confesses to starting the fire. The case was reduced to misdemeanor criminal mischief with no jail time and no fine.
  • Not Guilty
    ASSAULT
    The Law Offices of Jed Silverman earned our first not guilty verdict of 2017, an assault in Fort Bend County, Texas.
  • Jury Verdict of Not Guilty
    Assault
    Client is at his own wedding and a brides' maid accuses him of punching her and throwing her over a chair. The brides maid was 16 weeks pregnant when the alleged assault took place. The state had voluminous medical records proving the injuries and photographs of the complainants' bruises. Not Guilty verdict after vigorous cross examination.
  • Case Dismissed
    ASSAULT
    Client gets in fight outside friends home and is accused of breaking friends jaw.
  • Case Dismissed
    ASSAULT
    Client beats up complainant. Complainant's orbital is fractured.
  • Both charges dismissed.
    ASSAULT AND VIOLATING A NO CONTACT ORDER
    Client accused by girl friend of assault by striking. while on bond client charged with violation the Courts no-contact order.
  • Not Guilty Jury Verdict
    ASSAULT/DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
    Client, An engineer, is accused of slapping, grabbing, hitting and breaking the accusers' clavicle. State enters into evidence client's confession that he slapped complainant. State also enters into evidence medical records that prove up broken clavicle.
  • Case Dismissed
    ASSAULT/DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
    Client accused of using a tazer gun on his wife.
  • Case Dismissed
    BRIBERY
    Client is arrested for D.W.I. While being video taped client offers to have sex with police officer if he will let her go.
  • Case Dismissed
    BRIBERY
    Client accused of offering police officer money not to arrest him.
  • Case Reduced to Trespassing/Time Served
    BURGLARY
    Client is accused of breaking into girl friends home and beating up new boy friend with a baseball bat.
  • Case Dismissed
    BURGLARY OF A BUILDING
    Client accused of breaking into a cell phone store.