Felony Trial Division The Felony trial division is responsible for prosecuting felony criminal offenses. Felony offenses are punishable by a sentence of death or confinement in prison or state jail. Such offenses include murder, robbery, sexual assault, burglary and major drug and theft offenses. The cases are assigned to a District Court after presentation to and indictment by a grand jury and assigned to a specific prosecutor who handles the case through any plea bargaining or through trial.       Warren Diepraam Division Chief Warren is the Trial Division and Vehicular Crimes Section Chief.  A graduate of the University of Houston and the South Texas College of Law, he created the state’s first vehicular crimes callout teams and also pioneered several types of prosecutions against impaired or reckless drivers.  He was the first person in the state to successfully prosecute a habitual DWI offender for first degree murder.  Warren pioneered the “No Refusal Holiday” program in Texas bringing prosecutors, police, nurses, judges, and others into centralized facilities to process impaired drivers and obtain blood search warrants for those that refuse to provide a voluntary sample after being arrested for DWI.  This lifesaving program has now been adopted in one form or another in most Texas counties and at least eight states across the nation.  Additionally, Warren has been voted the nation’s top vehicular crimes prosecutor by the National Association of Prosecutor Coordinators and the National Highway Traffic Safety  Administration.  Warren is the current recipient of the MADD National Criminal Justice Award for Prosecutors and is a frequent guest on local and national media outlets including Foxnews, MSNBC, CNN, 60 Minutes, the BBC, and Nightline.  Warren has been published on numerous topics such as prosecutorial ethics and vehicular homicide.