LIT COMMENTARY
The Texas Bar retains lawyers in the State of Texas to help them with disciplinary complaints against fellow lawyers. In 2020 LIT started highlighting these ‘presiding members’ and see who is efficiently dispensing the right level of discipline and who’s acts are questionable or just completely nonsensical.
This article looks at District Attorney Dustin Hugh Boyd. We tripped over his profile while reviewin’ the 20 lawyers and judges misbehavin’ in November 2020. He recommended disbarring rogue Texas lawyer Ms. Cynthia Brown and that was agreed, approved and executed.
Post Edited: From Texas Southern University to Thieving Lawyers, these Legal Rats are Plaguing Texas in 2020 https://t.co/rDyAfo0p45
— LawsInTexas (@lawsintexasusa) December 29, 2020
RANCH-STYLE JUSTICE
Incoming Coryell County DA brings new flavor to court system
Originally Published: Aug 24, 2012 | Republished by LIT: Dec 30, 2020
GATESVILLE — Dustin Boyd’s journey from cowboy to criminal prosecutor has meandered from West Texas to East Lansing to South Sudan to Coryell County, where he will take office as district attorney in January.
Boyd grew up on the sprawling, 160,000-acre McElroy Ranch in Crane and Upton counties. He worked cattle on horseback, herded sheep on a motorcycle and attended school in nearby Crane, where he played football, basketball, golf and ran track.
“I was blessed to grow up on a ranch,” he said. “I love the outdoors.”
If Boyd’s childhood sounds like a chapter from a western novel, maybe it was because he grew up in the same ranch house that was the boyhood home of legendary Texas writer Elmer Kelton, whose father managed the McElroy Ranch.
“Elmer was a neat guy,” Boyd said of the author who died in 2009 at the age of 83. “Elmer said he was not much of a ranch hand, and neither was I,” said Boyd with a smile. “Not a good cowboy.”
Boyd left the ranch after graduating from Crane High School in 1993. After a summer in Austin working as a sergeant-at-arms in the Legislature, he enrolled at Howard Payne University, where he lettered in football as a freshman.
After a year in Brownwood, Boyd transferred to Texas A&M University to study political science. He graduated in 1998 and moved to San Antonio to work and save for law school.
While shopping for a law school, Boyd liked the look and feel of the campus of Michigan State University, which he said “reminded me of A&M.”
In addition to earning a law degree there in 2003, Boyd also received a certification in social work from the Michigan State graduate school.
While at Michigan State, Boyd met and married Jennifer Jund of Gatesville. The couple lives near Gatesville with their daughter Barrett, 6, and son Braxton, 4.
Boyd practiced civil and criminal law with Corbin & Associates before starting his own practice with Kinsey, Lee and Boyd with offices in Copperas Cove and Gatesville.
DUSTIN HUGH BOYD
In 2007, he took a leave from the firm to travel to Africa as a legal adviser for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Sudan.
After years of devastating civil war in Sudan, the Republic of South Sudan was created just last year as the result of a six-year U.N. peace process of which Boyd was a part.
“I was there to help guide and direct the civilian law enforcement in South Sudan to make the transition from military to police,” Boyd said.
He traveled across the country evaluating local jails and community police, putting his legal experience and social work background to the test.
“Looking back, this experience was one of the highlights of my life,” he said.
Working with law enforcement and crime victims made him want to go into prosecution.
After returning to Central Texas in 2008, Boyd joined the Coryell County Attorney’s office as an assistant prosecutor handling misdemeanor criminal cases.
Convinced he could improve the efficiency of prosecution in the district court, Boyd challenged incumbent District Attorney David Castillo in the Republican primary election this year and won.
“I ran for the office because of what I wanted to do, not to oppose anyone,” Boyd said.
While he said he would be “excited to be engaged in a transition process” with Castillo in the four months before he takes office, Boyd said he has had “zero communications” with the outgoing district attorney since the election.
“I wish David the best,” Boyd said, “but that (a coordinated transition) is not going to happen.”
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Post Edited: Goodwin Law’s Hall of Shame https://t.co/PqK8iplgFo
— LawsInTexas (@lawsintexasusa) December 29, 2020
Angella Myers
October 16, 2023 at 5:21 pm
I have another one for you! Mine! I was in Illinois due to my mother’s health and death! I knew I was behind I had kept in contact with my mortgage company etc I’m retired Army! My mortgage company has always worked with me in a lot of ways, had the property since 1995 so there was equity in it I don’t know why they didn’t work with me this time! I applied for Covid assistance program April 6th & sent a payment prior sold my home in Texas on May 2nd I didn’t know till the May 31st it was a VA loan home purchase $53,600 original note buyer paid $29,800 before the sale the buyer hired workers (starting on weekend of April 6th, how ironic), to remove contents in my home & 5 additional buildings bought & paid for by myself , 8 car carport etc nothing to do with the mortgage company property etc, my neighbors went over to see what was going on and all they said was “We Work for Bob” & “We Only Work On Weekends”, my neighbors stated to the hired workers that I was a good person and they knew me & how to get a hold of me etc, Everything was very evasive & still has been! (Bob Cooper’s workers wouldn’t pass any information out! They then would be at my property every weekend forward and go through my property Discarding what they. Wanted too, keeping what they wanted to & giving away what they wanted to! Sale was May 2nd & on May 3rd New Owner Bob Cooper gets people to remove 3 trucks a utility trailer & a Harley Davidson motorcycle less then 13,000 miles on it from my property on May 3rd! I knew nothing about this until May 31st following up on Covid Assistance Program Application over the phone! No Default Notices Letter of Demands, No Eviction, No Vacate Notices No Writ of Possession of Property from Sale! No foreclosure notices or dates of sale before or after! & Trustee wants me to esign a document for excess funds of $9,374 Harley Davidson motorcycle was worth more then that! I had fraudulent paperwork on my front door saying I abandoned my home has wrong address on it (& Bob Cooper Bought that property to address is 2831 mulberry drive Kempner Tx and mine is 2751 mulberry drive Kempner Tx it’s a block & half away from mine I called the number on the paperwork it mine wasn’t in the system it also states that I abandoned my home in January 2018 I never did I was in Texas & driving for Werner Enterprise as over the road truck driver! After further investigation of my own Bob Cooper used his name & address was 1506 Paseo Del Plata Suite 200 Temple Tx! Bob Cooper is Co-Owner of Real Star Property Management he’s a fraudulent business owner he steals people property vehicles and personal property furniture tools etc! I have tried to contact Bob several occasions Trutee Lawyer David Zientz told me only way I could contact him was email @ BobCooperinvestmentsholdingsinc I did several times starting June 1st to no avail also David Zientz emailed him & VA Representative Stephanie emailed him all to No Avail! After Returning to Texas I have done everything possible that I could think of I’ve done so much homework on this & without corporation from anyone! Dirty Jack Hendricks ended up with my pink truck (rest of vehicles I Believe also I heard he sold the red Chevy without title in August to a cousin of his named Jack also from the Ft Worth Tx area, they call him County Jack also he has a terminal illness cancer or something deals pills & Dirty Jack Hendricks caught a pill charges like 4-6 months ago I heard! Selling Stolen Vehicles Bob Cooper Purchasing Stolen Property Dirty Jack Hendricks 2222 Hwy 190 Copperas Cove Tx my pink truck is still there but it’s been stripped he was supposed to take it to a friend of mine house close to my property was but he hasn’t contacted me anymore! 2831 Property was bought by Bob Cooper too before mine! & if you look at the Realtor Websites You can see who the agent seller of that property is it’s Isaac Schlabach other Co-Owner of Real Star Property Management 3901 E Stan Schleuter Loop 100 Suite 101! My whole life has been stolen from me everything I have owned for the last 25 years & longer! It wasn’t abandoned properly electric stayed on as matter of fact it might still be in my name I was billed for July & August & I paid it too! I have had the same guy maintain the yard for the last 10 years or longer, Never Was There Any Overgrowth also I was 3/4’s way through a hard remodel! I have documentation pictures statements etc & my neighbor Rodney Parker has been so due diligent about all of this! I’m Now Homeless & have nothing all paperwork etc was discarded! No Way Am I The Only Victim! Please Help Me! Angella Myers phone number 254-394-3806 Email myersangella065@gmail.com