Eric Samuel Cardenas Jarvis, two years shy of turning 50, and one of the busiest criminal-defense attorneys in Hidalgo County, based on district court filings, pled guilty Monday in federal court to unlawfully accessing federal documents to help assist a known drug trafficking organization.
In an ironic twist of fate, Jarvis also practiced law as a criminal defense attorney in federal court, including some major drug shipment busts (coke kilos, etc.). But now, Monday, the seasoned attorney was standing in the same court, U.S. District Judge Ricardo Hinojosa, that he had worked for many years, not as a lawyer, but as ...