Scott Tidwell, Winkler County’s former county attorney, has lost both his bar card and his freedom after he was convicted in 2011 of four felonies and two misdemeanors—among them official oppression—according to his criminal defense lawyer.
While Tidwell’s sentence was probated for 10 years, a condition of that probation is that he spend 120 days in jail, according to Tidwell’s attorney, David Savoda. And recently, Savoda argued to a trial court that Tidwell should be allowed to leave the jail during that 120-day sentence for a specific reason: so the former attorney can run his steak restaurant in Winkler County.
