Legal Question in Criminal Law in Texas

You should have read the agreement before you signed it. You can still point out the mistake to the attorney and ask him to provide you a corrected agreement. Since all he did was a plea with the court and you are paying in installments he probably will do so.

To get a court a appointed attorney you need to be indigent, meaning you can't afford to hire an attorney. Even if you qualified for a court appointed attorney, you have no control over who the court appoints. You get the best or the worst lawyer available. If you got probation, chances are you would have been charged for fee that the county paid your attorney.

If you hire your own lawyer, you can try to find the best lawyer you can afford. You can negotiate the best payment contract you can.

Every lawyer representing a client in a criminal matter, knows that the client has absolute control over whether or not to try the case. Unless he wants to work for free, he needs to charge enough to cover that possibility. It is hard to know what the costs will be without knowing all the facts of the case.

Clients should know that their lawyers can not win every case they try and are not obligated to do so. Thus clients also have absolute control over whether to accept a plea bargain offer. More often than not, accepting a plea is a good decision. Most criminal trials result in guilty verdicts. This is not surprising when you consider that after all, the police decided to arrest the defendant and the DA's office (who does not like to lose cases) decided that there was enough evidence to convict, and in the case of an indicted felony, a grand jury decided that the case should be pursued.

I am sorry you are not satisfied with the cost of your legal representation.