AttorneyHelen Simotas
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Helen Simotas

Harris County Public Defender's Office

Houston, TX · Harris County · 30 years licensed

Cases
2,058
Licensed
30 yrs

Helen Simotas has been licensed in Texas since Nov 1996 — 30 years — and has filed under this bar number in 2,058 cases since 2017, nearly all of them in Harris County courts. The docket is criminal: 2,058 of 2,058 filings. No board certifications, no disciplinary history.

Case type by yearCourt-record case types
Count
  • Class B misdemeanor1,097
  • Class A misdemeanor960
  • State jail felony1
Class B misdemeanorClass B misdemeanorClass A misdemeanorClass A misdemeanorState jail felonyState jail felony’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Cases filed by year2026 is a partial year
  • 2026Partial95
  • 2025146
  • 2024174
  • 2023194
  • 2022193
  • 2021201
  • 2020195
  • 2019254
  • 2018257
  • 2017349
175349’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26

Showing filings under this bar number from 2017 to present in the county court records Referlex has imported; 2026 is a partial year.

Criminal charge outcomes2,077 charge records · county criminal records

Percentages use the 2,077 recorded charge dispositions associated with this bar number. Charges without a recorded disposition are excluded.

Dismissed or acquitted63%1,315
Dismissed 1,315
Deferral recorded<1%11
Deferred adjudication 11
Convicted36%750
Convicted on a guilty or nolo plea 745Convicted, plea or trial not recorded 5
Other recorded status<1%1
Other recorded disposition 1
By charge102 charges · 1–10 of 102
ChargeDispositionsConv.Outcome mix
Charges 1–10 of 102

These are record associations, not win rates: representation at disposition is not established, and several attorneys can appear on one charge. Outcomes are the latest recorded disposition of each charge; a missing disposition does not establish whether a charge is pending or how it ended. Percentages are rounded. No defendant details are shown.

Courts appeared in most2,058 cases · 11 courts

Cases are grouped by the court a filing names; appellate courts group together, not under the county a case came from.

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