About Clay Thomas

Mr. Thomas handles all types of criminal cases in state and federal courts across Texas including Nacogdoches, San Antonio, Houston and their surrounding areas. Clay believes that it is important to provide aggressive, hard fought legal representation for every client—the same kind of representation that he would want, if he or one of his family members were accused of a crime. Clay’s personal and professional experiences together with his trial experience in criminal law matters bring a unique perspective and experience to his representation of each client.

Clay knows that a criminal defense lawyer must bring enormous assets to the table. Great criminal lawyers must work harder and smarter to ensure that all evidence and facts beneficial to his clients are available to the jury. This is often a long process entailing many hours of research and investigation. Enormous trial preparation must be made so that clients and potential witnesses are prepared to understand the withering and destructive questioning of prosecutors seeking to take their freedom.

There is seldom a clear-cut case where the facts are simple and complete. Clay knows that part of the working harder and smarter is his ability to interview clients and understand the circumstances that brought them to their current problems. This is usually accomplished through multiple interviews lasting several hours with the client. This is because it is a near impossibility for any person to remember all the facts of an incident or of matters in his or her life that may assist the lawyer in one sitting. After all, how would you tell the story of your life?

Remember, the criminal justice system is only as fair and honest as those that control it and often achieving a balance between law enforcement, prosecutors, and defendants is the greatest challenge. For instance, it is utter foolishness for a person arrested to believe answering questions during police interrogation without the benefit of a lawyer will be better for him or her. Remember, when arrested you are at the mercy of others and the defense lawyer exists to ensure your rights are respected and not violated. Cooperating with an interrogation without the benefit of a lawyer could damage your freedom beyond repair. Poorly trained police officers and illegal procedures are difficult to change. It often gets left up to the defense lawyer to teach police at trial what the law really means.