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358th District Court Amended Order - Plea Agreement Deadline (signed March 21, 2017)

High confidence· verified September 25, 2026Case Management358th District Court Amended Order - Plea Agreement Deadline (signed March 21, 2017), Ector County, Texas; posted on the Ector County website (https://www.ectorcountytx.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1018/Plea-Deadline-PDF), fetched 2026-09-24.

Summary

Amended order of the 358th District Court: in criminal cases, the court must be notified of any negotiated plea agreement by 5:00 p.m. on the Thursday before jury selection begins; later agreements are not accepted absent extraordinary circumstances, and no plea hearing is set until a signed waiver of jury trial is received.

Applies to

Texas > Seventh Administrative Judicial Region > Ector County > 358th District Court.

Requirement

IN THE 358TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT ECTOR COUNTY, TEXAS AMENDED ORDER In all criminal cases pending in the 358th District Court in which plea agreements have been negotiated, the deadline to notify the Court of any such plea agreement(s) shall be no later than 5:00 p.m. on the Thursday before the commencement of jury selection for said cases(s). Counsel for the State and the Defendant(s) must notify the Court of the terms of any such negotiated plea agreement pursuant to the deadline stated herein. No plea agreement will be accepted or approved by the Court after the expiration of this deadline, absent extraordinary circumstances. If the State and the Defendant(s) negotiate a plea agreement for any pending case, no plea hearing will be scheduled and said cases(s) shall remain pending on the Court’s docket until such time as the Court has received a “Waiver of Right to a Jury Trial” that has been signed and executed by the Defendant(s) and his/her counsel of record. IT IS SO ORDERED. SIGNED the 21st day of March, 2017. [signature] W. STACY TROTTER, JUDGE PRESIDING

Source of truth

IN THE 358TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT ECTOR COUNTY, TEXAS AMENDED ORDER In all criminal cases pending in the 358th District Court in which plea agreements have been negotiated, the deadline to notify the Court of any such plea agreement(s) shall be no later than 5:00 p.m. on the Thursday before the commencement of jury selection for said cases(s). Counsel for the State and the Defendant(s) must n

Official source: Ector County Courts - www.ectorcountytx.gov (county website; District Court Judges, district court, County Courts at Law, Probate Department, District Clerk and Justice of the Peace pages)
Source health: Healthy
Effective date: March 21, 2017
Last verified: September 25, 2026benchpath-tx-ajr7-p4-2026-09-25

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-25 (AJR-7 Seventh Region build, own-site layer) from BenchPath custody ajr7 corpus sources/documents/af26fc733e523fc6-plea-deadline-pdf.pdf (46,016 bytes, sha256 af26fc733e523fc68a9605b4b86f4b58ffac28d3337b2bdefef0b3174115a590; 1 page(s)) - the document the Ector County website posts (https://www.ectorcountytx.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1018/Plea-Deadline-PDF), not registered with the Office of Court Administration's TOPICs registry as of 2026-09-25: transcribed by eye from the rendered pages of the scanned file (no machine text relied on) and read a second time against the page images - for long documents word by word against an independent machine OCR of the same scan, every disagreement and every handwritten entry resolved on the image; signature, seal and file-stamp blocks bracketed. Signed: W. Stacy Trotter, Judge Presiding (March 21, 2017).