{"id":4702,"date":"2026-04-10T09:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/?page_id=4702"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:52:41","slug":"lakesha-smith-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/lakesha-smith-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Advisor MarQuite&#8217; Mayes"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-luirvp0f-131db36d965089d0c12ce027e7d5ce1f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4665 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mayers-3-6-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"243\" \/>MarQuite&#8217; Mayes<\/strong> serves as a Legal Advisor for the Dallas County Sheriff&#8217;s Department. Her career in the criminal justice system has included multiple roles. As an Assistant District Attorney, she handled misdemeanor and felony cases and served as lead prosecutor on complex drug-trafficking cases referred to the District Attorney&#8217;s Office by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).\u00a0 She later entered private practice, where she founded and managed her criminal defense firm, representing both retained and court-appointed clients.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4702","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4706,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4702\/revisions\/4706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}