Dick DeGuerin

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Dick DeGuerin (born February 16, 1941 in Austin, Texas) is a criminal defense lawyer based in Houston, Texas, best known for defending Tom DeLay, Allen Stanford, David Koresh and Robert Durst. In 1994, DeGuerin was named Extraordinary Criminal Lawyer's Lawyer of the Year by Texas Criminal Law Division.

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Education

He earned a law degree in 1965 from the University of Texas at Austin and in the same year, he was accepted at the State Bar.

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Careers

Early in his career (1971-1982), he was an associate with Percy Foreman. In 2005, he defended former House Chief Majority Tom DeLay in DeLay's defense against charges for money laundering and conspiracy, brought by Texas prosecutor Ronnie Earle.

DeGuerin, a Democrat, had previously won over Earle in a case involving alleged violations of US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. DeLay was found guilty, but the conviction was overturned on appeal. He also represents the bankers involved in a fraud case related to the Enron collapse.

He represents Waco, Texas's leader David Koresh during the Koresh deadlock with the FBI and ATF agents. DeGuerin used his self-defense argument, and won, when he represented the heir to New York real estate Robert Durst, who confessed to killing and then dismembering the body of his 71-year-old neighbor, Morris Black, bagging parts of his body and throwing it into Galveston Bay. DeGuerin once again represented Durst on his indictment in New Orleans on March 16, 2015 for the murder of Susan Berman in 2000 (which emerged from the special HBO miniseries The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst).

Other cases include participating in the impeachment trial of the Congress of US District Court Judge Samuel B. Kent. He represents Celeste Beard, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, David Mark Temple, convicted of murdering his wife, who is 8 months pregnant, Allen Stanford, and Billy Joe Shaver.

He is a professor at the University of Texas School of Law, teaching criminal law.