McCann, former president of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association, said the situation seems more about "hardball and negotiations" than extortion.
Gilbert has agreed to pay child support for a boy he fathered 18 years ago, but a Hunt County judge ruled two months ago that Gilbert didn't have to pay the mother nearly $190,000 in back child support. The mother plans to appeal. The judge's attorneys have long suggested that the mother's attorney, Rigby Owen III, ...