In every DWI case in County Court at Law No. 7 the State must produce, on or before the 60th day after the information is filed, the thirteen categories of Intoxilyzer breath-test records listed in the order (instrument certificate and solution files, Cobra Data Log, maintenance file, NIST traceability, thermometer calibration, simulator-solution procedures, software documentation, operator and technical-supervisor files, operating policies and DPS inspection reports); late production is reviewed case by case for admissibility, and cases already on file had a February 2, 2024 deadline.
Applies to DWI cases in County Court at Law No. 7 of Bexar County (Judge Melanie Lira); the court's counterpart to the county-wide standard breath-test discovery order (TOPICs doc 465). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
2023 SO 21 — STATE OF TEXAS AND THE HANDLING OF DWI CASES — IN THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 7, 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 normalized to the order's title). Single current signer (Judge Melanie Lira), 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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