Since becoming licensed in 1999, attorney Murray Newman has focused on one aspect of the law and one aspect only: Criminal Law.
After graduating from the University of Houston School of Law, Murray joined the Harris County District Attorney's Office in August of 1999. Over the next nine years, he went from a rookie prosecutor to a Felony District Court Chief, successfully prosecuting all types of criminal cases, including Driving While Intoxicated, Assault, Theft, Aggravated Robbery, Sexual Assault, Murder, Injury to a Child, and Capital Murder.
Leaving the District Attorney's Office in 2008, Murray has focused exclusively on Criminal Defense ever since. He has defended cases ranging from Driving While Intoxicated to Murder, drawing from his lengthy career in criminal law to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of his clients' cases and fights hard for each and every one of them.
Once described as being "fearless" in trial, Murray is never more at home than when trying a case in front of a jury. In the course of his nine years at the D.A.'s Office, he took approximately 90 cases to trial in front of Harris County Juries. The vast majority of the cases tried by him were Felony cases, where he enjoyed a win rate of well over 90%.
As a prosecutor, Murray has tried Capital Murder cases (including one Death Penalty case), over fifteen murder cases, and numerous other serious cases including Intoxication Manslaughter, Aggravated Robbery, Aggravated Assault, Home Invasion Cases, Sexual Assaults, and narcotics cases. He prosecuted several high-profile cases including sitting second chair with prosecutor Kelly Siegler on the infamous Susan Wright murder trial. 