Dick DeGuerin (born February 16, 1941, in Austin, Texas) is an American criminal defense attorney based in Houston,[1][2] most notable for defending Tom DeLay, Allen Stanford, David Koresh, and Robert Durst.
[3] DeGuerin earned a Juris Doctor degree in 1965 from the University of Texas at Austin and that same year, he was admitted to the State Bar.
DeGuerin used a self-defense argument, and won, when he represented New York real estate heir Robert Durst, who admitted to killing and then dismembering the body of Durst's 71-year-old neighbor Morris Black, bagging the body parts and tossing them into Galveston Bay.
[8] Other cases include participating in the Congressional impeachment hearing of U.S. District Court Judge Samuel B.
[9] He represented Celeste Beard, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, David Mark Temple, convicted of killing his wife, who was 8 months pregnant, Allen Stanford, and Billy Joe Shaver.