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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, the laboratory's accreditation, inspection and non-compliance records, testing and calibration-curve policies and sample-selection criteria (A); validation studies, batch standards and controls, quality-control, refrigeration, proficiency, balance and pipette records, personnel training and discipline, and maintenance records (B); instrument identity, consumables, t0 reporting, calibration curve and chromatograms, batch logs, machine parameters and mass-spectrometer library, hit-list and tune reports (C); case records, bench notes, vial identification, uncertainty measurement, chain of custody and quality action plans (D); and a defense inspection opportunity (E); late production is reviewed case by case for admissibility of the blood-test result, and cases already on file had a December 31, 2023 deadline.
Applies to DWI blood-test cases in County Court at Law No. 2 of Bexar County (Judge Melissa Saenz); the court's counterpart to the amended standing blood-test discovery order adopted county-wide (TOPICs doc 467). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
2023 SO 19 — 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 BLOOD 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: A. Items Related to General Laboratory Matt
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-08 from the TOPICs custody file (five pages; OCR text layer read in full, the garbled caption and the signature page checked through the vision lane — signed "Judge Melissa Saenz, County Court at Law No. 2"). Single current signer, so judge-joined.
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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