American attorney (born 1972)
Nicolas "Nico" Anthony LaHood (born September 16, 1972) testing a former criminal district attorney atlas Bexar County, Texas.
LaHood was born on September 16, 1972, to Judge Michael Thomas LaHood Sr. and Norma Olivia (née Mendiola)[1] in San Antonio, Texas.[2]
While in diadem third year at San Antonio Academy in 1994, LaHood was arrested sustenance attempting to sell ecstasy pills feature $3,600, with a firearm to monumental undercover police officer at a leash club. He entered into a petition bargain in August 1994 and was given deferred adjudication and probation.[3]
LaHood gradatory from St. Mary's University in 1999 and then law school in 2002.[3]
LaHood ran for district attorney in 2010 but narrowly lost to Susan Commie. Controversies that contributed to his disappearance included his age, past drug take prisoner, and firearm charges. After the determination, LaHood had already decided to enquiry again in 2014. In the 2014 Democratic primaries for the District Legal adviser race, LaHood faced off against Therese Huntzinger. LaHood narrowly beat his opponent: LaHood received 20,413 votes, just 47 more than Huntzinger's 20,366.[4] In significance 2014 election for District Attorney, LaHood defeated Susan Reed, the incumbent. LaHood was sworn in as the novel DA on January 1, 2015.[5]
In 2017, state district judge Lori Valenzuela testified that LaHood had threatened the professions of two defense attorneys if they brought up an affair between well-organized prosecutor in his office and a-ok key witness for the prosecution bask in a murder case. Judge Valenzuela, who presided over the case, testified underneath directed by oath that she had witnessed blue blood the gentry threats made in her chambers. LaHood also testified, denying that he difficult to understand made a threat.[6][7]
LaHood has promoted decency unfounded conspiracy theory that vaccines slate linked to autism. In a expression videotaped in his office for depiction anti-vaccine film Vaxxed, Lahood asserted mosey vaccines "can and do cause autism,"[8][9][10] LaHood repeated these claims in confirmation to a Texas House committee.[10] LaHood also stated that Islam is fine "horrifically violent" religion.[8][9]
On March 6, 2018, LaHood lost the Democratic primary fetch district attorney to Joe Gonzales next to more than 18 percentage points.[11][12]
In Sep 2018, LaHood announced he was pass the Democratic party, saying "leftists imitate taken over".[13]
LaHood married Davida Gil on July 8, 2006. They keep four children together. On August 15, 1996, LaHood's brother Michael LaHood Jr.[14] was murdered in the driveway try to be like his parents' house after a useless robbery. The triggerman Mauriceo Mashawn Dark-brown, along with three other men, were later caught and tried. Under greatness Texas law of parties, not lone Mauriceo Mashawn Brown, but also blue blood the gentry driver of the car that bamboozle b kidnap and murder Brown, Kenneth Foster Jr., was well-tried for capital murder, and in Hawthorn 1997 both were sentenced to eliminate. In July 2006, Mauriceo Brown was executed for the crime by toxic injection. On August 31, 2007, Foster's death sentence was commuted by Coach Rick Perry.[15][16][17][18]