Note: Hard to believe that 10 years have passed by since this story was written and published in The Advance Feb. 11, 2015, but it has. Can’t stop time.Now in private practice, Ricardo Rodriguez and his law firm (The Ricky Rod Law Group), which includes his son, also a licensed attorney, are doing work for clients, including the City of Pharr (city attorney), after serving two terms in office as Hidalgo County DA. During his watch, so to speak, Rodriguez’s office successfully secured the capital murder conviction of a high-profile murder defendant (Melissa Patterson) with four of the county’s top ...