The Cooke County Court at Law's criminal-case procedure: the arraignment, consultation and status-conference settings, when appearances may be waived, and when pleas are heard.
Applies to criminal cases in the Cooke County Court at Law.
Arraignment in the Cooke County Court at Law is on the first and third Tuesdays in the County Court at Law courtroom; a pro se defendant must appear, while an attorney may waive arraignment by returning the Waiver of Arraignment and Setting Order before the setting. At the Consultation Setting (formerly the pretrial), attorneys can no longer waive appearance, and attendance of the defendant and co
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the county-site document (read in full). Court-specific CCL criminal divisional instructions; judge-joined to Townsend (current posting on the CCL page).
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