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 laboratory accreditation, policy, pre-analysis, analysis and reporting records itemized in sections A–D of the order and afford the defense the inspection opportunity in section E; late production is reviewed case by case for admissibility of the blood-test result, and cases already on file had a February 2, 2024 deadline.
Applies to DWI blood-test cases in County Court at Law No. 7 of Bexar County (Judge Melanie Lira); the court's counterpart to the county-wide amended standing blood-test discovery order (TOPICs doc 467). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
2023 SO 20 — STATE OF TEXAS AND THE HANDLING OF DWI CASES — IN THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 7, BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS. SPECIAL ORDER 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 Matters. 1. All Laborato
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-08 from the TOPICs custody file (five pages; OCR text layer read in full; the garbled caption normalized to the order's title). 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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