evading arrest - criminal defense lawyer

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Lesson 1 from Parker County Roadrunner

• Have you ever watched a police chase on TV? You
  watch the car swerve through traffic. It narrowly
  misses another vehicle as the perpetrator
  maneuvers through an intersection. Sometimes they
  manage to pull away from the police, but they are
  unaware local news helicopters are overhead
  broadcasting to all exactly where the getaway car
  is located. It is exciting. Seriously.

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• My friend and client, Parker County Roadrunner,
  or as I call him P.C. has personally faced an
  evading arrest charge. The facts are something
  like this He was driving his step-dads pick-up.
  P.C. had picked up a friend and they were driving
  on I-20 in Arlington, Texas when the red and blue
  lights of an Arlington Patrol Car appeared in the
  rearview mirror. The friend said, Do not stop
  and may have even threatened P.C. if he did stop.
  The chase last several miles, but with several
  officers having joined in pursuit, P.C. realized
  it would be better to stop regardless of what his
  friend threatened.

3

• Step-dad bought his pick-up 10 years before he
  met his wife or P.C. All the debt was clear and
  it was an extra vehicle. When P.C. needed a
  vehicle to be able to get to work, Step-dad let
  P.C. borrow the truck. Step-dad was an innocent
  owner as to P.C.s running from the law in the
  truck. Step-dad assumed as many people would that
  he would have to pay to get the vehicle out of
  the impound, and he could bring his pick-up home.

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• At the hearing for the truck the State cited case
  law which provided that if the person using the
  loaned vehicle was the effective owner because
  he more or less had sole use of the vehicle, it
  was effectively the drivers vehicle. Because
  P.C. could take the pick-up to work and to his
  home, it was effectively his vehicle even if
  Step-dad held the title, the insurance, and the
  registration. The Court ruled in favor of Tarrant
  County Step-dad's truck now belongs to the State
  of Texas.

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• P.C. Roadrunner tried to outrun the law. Step-dad
  lost his pick-up. Evading arrest can put you in
  jail and cost you a vehicle. If you are facing
  charges of evading arrest or need help filing an
  innocent owner claim, call Andrew Decker Law PLLC
  at 817-441-1629.