On March 3, 1982, three months after being licensed to practice law, Sasso agreed to meet a potential client, David Wayne McKay, after hours, at McKay’s request, at Sasso’s office at 500 North Griffin at Ross, in downtown Dallas. Mr. …
Vic happened to be in Chambers talking with a family court district judge late on a Friday afternoon when an application for an emergency protective order was filed by Child Protective Services necessitating the appointment of an Attorney Ad Litem …
The client was an undergraduate student at SMU in Dallas. He fled from the Dallas Police Department in his late-model Corvette because he thought he had unpaid traffic tickets. After spinning out at the intersection of Royal and Luna, the …
In 1995, Sasso obtained a not guilty verdict from a Collin County jury wherein his female client was charged with arson. The evidence showed she was in financial distress with regard to house payments and had removed valuables from the …
State v. Matvichuk, cause number MB96-49343. In 1996, Sasso and Charles Clay represented Richard Dorian Matvichuck, a starting defenseman for the Dallas Stars, a local professional hockey organization. Mr. Matvichuck had been arrested by the Dallas Police Department coming out …
State of Texas vs. Robert Bulloch Pope, 635 S.W.2d 815 (1982). Mr. Pope was arrested inside a residence on Greenville Avenue during the “dynamic” execution of a narcotics search warrant. However, the evidence in the affidavit in support of the …
On February 5, 2001, Vic Sasso, and extremely competent co-counsel, Franklyn “Mick” Mickelsen, were appointed by the U.S. Magistrate under the provisions of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, to represent Texas death-row inmate, Gayland Bradford, in …
United States of America vs. Jibreel Rashad was part of the highly publicized Dallas City Hall public corruption case in which 13 others, including a city councilman, a planning & zoning commissioner, and a state representative were also indicted, following …
A search warrant was served at a client’s home, where he was caught in the act of weighing and packaging about one kilogram of crack cocaine. The client was enhanced with two prior trips to the penitentiary, and his penalty …