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The joint standing orders of the 304th and 305th Juvenile District Courts (Hon. Andrea Martin; Hon. Cheryl Lee Shannon): Standing Order 2025/001 (Mar. 21, 2025) closing all detention hearings to the public under Family Code §54.08, and Standing Order 2025/005 (Aug. 12, 2025) requiring juvenile delinquency cases involving sibling accomplices, or accomplices in conduct resulting in a death, to be heard in the court of first filing, with DA notification duties and good-cause judicial discretion.
Texas > Dallas County > the 304th and 305th District Courts (juvenile) — joint standing orders of both courts (2025/001 and 2025/005, signed by Judges Andrea Martin and Cheryl Lee Shannon, matching the OCA bench); companion registered instrument: the juvenile remote-detention order (composed separately)
DETENTION HEARINGS (Standing Order 2025/001, signed Mar. 21, 2025): "All Detention Hearings are Ordered closed to the public." Under Family Code §54.08 all hearings of a child under 14 are presumptively closed, and the courts "further find[] good cause to close Detention Hearings to the public for children 14 years of age and older" — detention hearings are probable-cause hearings and judicial decisions on detention or release, not findings of delinquent conduct; cases are not necessarily filed on every child detained; and disclosed information could materially affect witness testimony at later adjudication or disposition hearings. "ACCORDINGLY, it is ORDERED that the public is excluded from Detention Hearings conducted pursuant to 54.01 of the Texas Family Code." RELATED-CASE TRANSFERS (Standing Order 2025/005, signed Aug. 12, 2025): (1) "All juvenile delinquency cases in which the juvenile respondents are siblings and are alleged to be accomplices in the same incident or series of related incidents shall be heard in a single court"; (2) all cases in which multiple juvenile respondents are alleged accomplices "in an incident or series of incidents that resulted in the death of an individual shall be heard in a single court"; (3) "the court in which the first delinquency petition is filed shall exercise jurisdiction over all related cases," with subsequent related cases transferred in; (4) the first-filing court's judge signs all transfer orders, and the receiving court appoints counsel from its appointment list per the Indigent Defense Plan where appointed counsel is required; (5) on the filing of any qualifying petition, the Chief of the DA's Juvenile Section or designee notifies the juvenile district judges and ensures transfer per the order; (6) "Nothing in this Order shall prohibit a Juvenile District Court from declining to transfer cases upon a showing of good cause," provided the decision continues to serve the interests of justice and the convenience of families and victims.
Reviewer note: Own-site instrument composed by vision (image-only scan rendered and read page-by-page 2026-08-28; custody sha in the crawl ledger); the file carries both joint standing orders (hand-numbered 2025/001 and 2025/005); effective date recorded as the later order's signing; both signature blocks match the OCA bench.
Tenth (10th) Court of Appeals — Standing Order No. 1, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/01/2023). The operative requirements are quoted verbatim; the registered document is the controlling text.
Tenth (10th) Court of Appeals — Standing Order No. 2, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/01/2023). The operative requirements are quoted verbatim; the registered document is the controlling text.