Attack on drunk-driving evidence in death of UTSA grad drew an admiring trial audience – other lawyers

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Attack on drunk-driving evidence in death of UTSA grad drew an admiring trial audience – other lawyers
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Creating doubts among jurors that Jonathan Paul Jones was drunk when he drove the wrong way up a Loop 1604 exit ramp was impressive work, said defense attorneys who watched, but the defendant drew a prison term in the end.

. The panel did convict Jones of manslaughter and sentenced him to a substantial prison term for causing the crash that killed Taylor Angelle McCowan, 23, in 2020.

“The defense did an amazing job of mitigating punishment by destroying the blood evidence and poking holes in the state’s case with reasonable doubt,” Corby said, adding, “You saw a lot of defense attorneys in there because we support each other. … We wanted to learn.”Jones was 40 when San Antonio police charged him with intoxication assault following the head-on crash on Jan. 31, 2020.

“I’ve never seen such a thorough job than those two lawyers did in rebutting point-by-point the state’s case on intoxication,” Stevens said. Defense expert Amanda Culbertson disputed DeKing’s results because DeKing did not wait for the specimen to get warm enough to conduct a test with meaningful results. The blood had clotted, and some of it was thrown away, Del Prado said, noting, “That’s evidence.”

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