[From KXAN.com]What is it with these Texas criminal defense attorneys? (See yesterday’s post about Texas criminal defense attorney Catherine Shelton here.)
Austin defense attorney Bruce Phillip Garrison, 37, was already facing felony theft and drug possession charges filed in August of this year.
Now, Garrison has been charged by arrest warrant with forging at least three different judges’ signatures on bonds to secure his clients’ release from jail.
Garrison is accused of forging the signatures of District Judge Jon Wisser, Judge Jan Breland and Judge Julie Kocurek. He faces three counts of tampering with a governmental record, a felony that carries a sentence of two to 20 years, and three counts of forgery, a felony that carries a sentence of two to 10 years.
Garrison was arrested in August for possession of methamphetamine and theft of $2,500.
According to the arrest warrant, a police informant stated:
"[Garrison told me] I have one more ace up my sleeve…We went to his house, where he produced a second bond form ... and signed [Judge Kocurek's] name at the bottom of the form. ... He told me, 'I do this all the time.' "
But for our earlier post about Texas lawyer Shelton, we would predict Garrison, Esq. was toast. But we now realize that almost any lawyerly indiscretion can be overlooked in the Longhorn State—more than once.
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