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Administrative Order 2024-A of the Brazos County Courts at Law establishing the court’s immigration-consequences admonishment practice for defendants entering pleas (the admonishment that a plea may carry immigration consequences such as deportation, exclusion from admission, or denial of naturalization), provided in the required form/languages.
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Administrative Order 2024-A IN RE: IMMIGRATION ADMONISSIONS FOR DEFENDANTS IN CRIMINAL CASES AND COURT APPOINTED ATTORNEYS § IN DISTRICT COURTS AND § COUNTY COURTS AT LAW § OF § BRAZOS COUNTY, TEXAS ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER The Courts, on their own motion, enter this administrative standing order requiring all attorneys on the criminal court appointed wheel to provide proof to the Brazos County Associate Court #1 that they have read the attached documents from the Immigrant Defense Project regarding the duty of criminal defense attorneys after Padilla v. Kentucky. All court appointed attorneys must return the attached written acknowledgement of having read the attached document to Brazos County Associate Court #1 by August 30, 2024. Any attorney who has not provided written acknowledgement by the due date will be suspended from the appointment wheel until such written proof is provided. ORDERED this 29th day of July, 2024. [signature] Judge Kyle Hawthorne, 85th District Court [signature] Judge John Brick, 272nd District Court [signature] Judge David Hilburn, 361st District Court [signature] Judge Amanda Matzke, County Court at Law #1 [signature] Judge Roy Brantley, County Court at Law #2 [signature] Judge Dana Zachary, Associate Court #1 [signature] Judge Misty Swan, Felony Associate Court [signature] Judge George Jerrell Wise, 472nd District Court Attached documents: (1) A Defending Immigrants Partnership Practice Advisory Duty of Criminal Defense Counsel Representing an Immigrant Defendant after Padilla v. Kentucky (2) Summary & Key Points of the Padilla Decision for Defense Lawyers (3) Immigration Consequences of Crimes Summary Checklist (4) Advising Non-U.S. Citizens about Marihuana Violation Convictions (5) Certificate of Compliance [Attachments (1) through (4) are pages 2 through 27 of the file, each marked by hand "#1" to "#4" on its first page. They are third-party practice materials attached to the order, and they are described here, not reproduced: (1) pages 2-17: Immigrant Defense Project, "A Defending Immigrants Partnership Practice Advisory: Duty of Criminal Defense Counsel Representing an Immigrant Defendant after Padilla v. Kentucky," April 6, 2010 (revised April 9, 2010), with Appendix A (Immigration Consequences of Convictions Summary Checklist; Suggested Approaches for Representing a Noncitizen in a Criminal Case) and Appendix B (Resources for Criminal Defense Lawyers, pages B-1 through B-8); (2) pages 18-23: an unattributed handout headed "Defense Counsel's Obligation Under Padilla," followed by quoted federal grounds of inadmissibility and deportability and notes on rehabilitative relief and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The order's list titles attachment (2) "Summary & Key Points of the Padilla Decision for Defense Lawyers," which is the heading of Part I of attachment (1) on page 3; (3) pages 24-25: Immigrant Defense Project, "Immigration Consequences of Crimes Summary Checklist," with its DACA Supplement (updated June 16, 2017); (4) pages 26-27: "Advising Non-U.S. Citizens about Marihuana Violation Convictions," under the Immigrant Defense Project logo.] THE STATE OF TEXAS X X COUNTY OF BRAZOS X IMMIGRATION CONSEQUENCES COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE I, ______________________________, certify that I have read and understood Administrative Order 2024-A and the documents attached thereto. I understand that I have a duty to inquire about my clients' immigration status and advise my criminal clients of potential immigration consequences. I understand that my duty is not fulfilled by referring my client to immigration counsel or by referring to the judicial admonishments regarding potential immigration consequences. ______________________________ ATTORNEY'S SIGNATURE ____________ Date [handwritten: #5] [The order is page 1 of the 28-page file and the certificate (attachment 5) is page 28; neither page carries a filing stamp.]
Administrative Order 2024-A IN RE: IMMIGRATION ADMONISSIONS FOR DEFENDANTS IN CRIMINAL CASES AND COURT APPOINTED ATTORNEYS § IN DISTRICT COURTS AND § COUNTY COURTS AT LAW § OF § BRAZOS COUNTY, TEXAS ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER The Courts, on their own motion, enter this administrative standing order requiring all attorneys on the criminal court appointed wheel to provide proof to the Brazos County Asso
Reviewer note: Image-only registration (28 pages, likely multi-language admonishment forms) in custody, read through the vision lane (cover/first page); summarized. Composed benchpath-ajr2-brazos. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 0e41401395fc..., 28 page(s), image-only scan; the OCR layer used as a typing base and corrected word by word from the page) read against the rendered file; verbatim, source typos kept, stamps/signatures bracketed; the earlier abstract replaced by the full instrument; confidence high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21]
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.