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A 21 year career prosecutor, David Waddill retired as Second Assistant District Attorney from the Collin County District Attorney’s Office in 2008. Having been continually board certified in Criminal Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1991, Mr. Waddill is a skilled trial lawyer with the distinction of trying hundreds of jury trials covering every aspect of criminal law.
Mr. Waddill is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin and received his law degree from Texas Tech University in Lubbock. During law school he clerked for several prominent west Texas attorneys including: Bill Wischkaemper, David Martinez, Bob and Harley Huff and Zant Woodall at Crenshaw, Dupree and Millam.
Following graduation, David served a one year judicial internship with Chief Justice William Cornelius of the Sixth Supreme Judicial Court of Appeals. While there he researched and brief several significant opinions.
David joined the Collin County District Attorneys office in 1987. His career included assignments in the misdemeanor division as a court team chief, the felony trial division as a court chief, grand jury chief, chief of the intake division, chief of the misdemeanor division, and second assistant district attorney.
As the chief of the grand jury intake division, David oversaw the investigation and review of charging decisions for over 10,000 cases presented by law enforcement organizations each year, and also presented over 4,000 cases to the grand jury.
Misdemeanor division chief responsibilities involved the daily operations of the prosecution teams in all six Collin County Courts at Law and the five Justice Courts in Collin County. This included the disposition of over 8,000 misdemeanor cases per year, over 300 of which were jury trials to verdict, making the Collin County misdemeanor courts the busiest in the State of Texas.
He also performed duties in the appellate division, researching and performing briefing practice in a number of significant Texas cases, including: White v. State (capital murder, death penalty); Bingham v. State (corroboration of co-conspirator statements against interest); Janus v. State (elements of specific intent offenses—capital murder); Moore v. State (5th amendment waiver—death penalty case); McNair and Williams v. State (certification and murder prosecution of 2 juveniles tried as adults); and Ex Parte Alba (post conviction writ-capital murder). David Waddill’s appellate experience has also included argument before the 5th District Court of Appeals in Dallas, and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (Bruce v. State, capital murder, death sentence, conviction affirmed, unanimous decision).
Mr. Waddill has also served as an adjunct instructor at the Collin County Community College where he taught classes on Texas Courts and Criminal Procedure, Texas Penal Code, and Constitutional Law. He is a frequent speaker for many seminars and instructional courses for local and regional law enforcement around the State of Texas.
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