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In every DWI case in County Court at Law No. 2 the State must produce, on or before the 60th day after the information is filed, thirteen categories of Intoxilyzer breath-test records (instrument certificate and solution files, the Cobra Data Log and maintenance file for six months before and after the test, NIST traceability and thermometer calibration, simulator-solution procedures, software documentation and updates, operator and technical-supervisor history files and disciplinary records, unpublished operating policies, and DPS annual inspection reports a year before and after); late production is reviewed case by case for admissibility of the breath-test result, and cases already on file had a December 31, 2023 deadline.
Applies to DWI cases in County Court at Law No. 2 of Bexar County (Judge Melissa Saenz); the court's court-wide counterpart to the standard breath-test discovery order adopted for all criminal county courts at law (TOPICs doc 465). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
2023 SO 18 — STATE OF TEXAS AND THE HANDLING OF DWI CASES — IN THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 2, BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS. SPECIAL ORDER DIRECTING THE STATE TO PRODUCE BREATH TEST RECORDS. THE COURT HEREBY ORDERS the State to produce the following documents pursuant to Brady v. Maryland, Watkins v. State, and Article 39.14 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure: 1. All items contained and maintained in t
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-08 from the TOPICs custody file (three pages; OCR text layer read in full, the garbled caption and signature page checked through the vision lane). The signature page is signed over "Judge Presiding, County Court at Law No. 2" without a printed name; the CCL 2 judge on November 1, 2023 was Melissa Saenz (she signs the companion blood order 2023 SO 19 by name the same day and the October 2023 joint fee order as CCL 2), so the rule is judge-joined on that basis. The registration date precedes the order date by a day (registered 10/31/2023; ordered Nov. 1, 2023) — transcribed as found.
A standing order of the 97th Judicial District Court sealing the files in cases in which Child Protective Services or the Department of Family and Protective Services appears as petitioner, in the counties comprising the 97th Judicial District.
Dallas County Standing Order Regarding Children, Pets, Property and Conduct of the Parties (Family District Courts General Orders, current edition F2026/05, revised Jan. 31, 2026 — a re-adoption of the same operative text by the current bench: Hon. Kim Brown (254th), Vonda Bailey (255th), Sandre Streete (256th), Ashley Wysocki (301st), Sandra Jackson (302nd), LaDeitra Adkins (303rd), and Andrea D. Plumlee (330th)), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/11/2023). The order "applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Dallas County" automatically, without request: child-disruption prohibitions, pet protection, party-conduct restraints, divorce-case property/records/insurance freezes with specific authorizations, mandatory petition attachment, and its TRO-to-temporary-injunction lifecycle.
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