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The county court judges authorize the Criminal Law Magistrate to issue warrants for defendants released on bond who fail to appear for court-ordered psychological, competency or sanity evaluations, and to order them held up to 21 days in the Bexar County Jail for evaluation.
Applies to misdemeanor defendants of County Courts at Law Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 of Bexar County who are released on bond and ordered to competency or sanity evaluations by the Criminal Law Magistrate. The order names then-magistrate Andrew Carruthers; the Criminal Law Magistrate is now Liza A. Rodriguez. Signed by then-Administrative Judge Longoria; no judge join. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
2021 SO 02 — SPECIAL ORDER. STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF BEXAR — IN THE COUNTY COURTS AT LAW HEARING CRIMINAL MATTERS 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, AND 15. ORDER AUTHORIZING CRIMINAL MAGISTRATE TO ISSUE WARRANTS The County Court Judges have agreed to authorize Criminal Law Magistrate, Andrew Carruthers, to issue warrants for defendants who are released on bond and who fail to appear for their scheduled psychological evaluations, for competency or sanity evaluations, as ordered by Judge Carruthers. Judge Carruthers is further authorized to order those individuals to be held up to 21 days in the Bexar County Jail in order for them to be evaluated. SIGNED, ORDERED, AND ENTERED ON 05/17/2021 by: Judge John A. Longoria, Administrative Judge. [Filed with the County Clerk (Lucy Adame-Clark) May 17, 2021.]
2021 SO 02 — SPECIAL ORDER. STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF BEXAR — IN THE COUNTY COURTS AT LAW HEARING CRIMINAL MATTERS 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, AND 15. ORDER AUTHORIZING CRIMINAL MAGISTRATE TO ISSUE WARRANTS The County Court Judges have agreed to authorize Criminal Law Magistrate, Andrew Carruthers, to issue warrants for defendants who are released on bond and who fail to appear for the
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-08 from the TOPICs custody file (one image-only page read through the vision lane). The order is written to a named magistrate who has since been succeeded; registered by the county in 2023 as a standing order in force, so published with that note.
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.