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Order for attorneys approved by the Ector County Board of Judges to receive felony or misdemeanor indigent appointments: comply with the continuing legal education requirements of Texas Administrative Code chapter 174 and file annual verification with the Local Administrative Judge for the district courts; and report annually to the Texas Indigent Defense Commission, under Code of Criminal Procedure article 26.04(j)(4), the percentage of practice devoted to indigent cases (October 1 through September 30).
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ORDER - CLE and INDIGENT DEFENSE REPORTING Consistent with the recommendations submitted to the Ector County Board of Judges by the Texas Indigent Defense Commission, IT IS ORDERED that the attorneys who have been approved to receive felony and/or misdemeanor indigent appointments from the Ector County Board of Judges shall comply with the Continuing Legal Education (CLE) requirements of Chapter 174, Tex. Admin. Code. As such, on or before the expiration of the annual CLE compliance reporting period/deadline for each approved attorney as mandated by the State Bar of Texas, appropriate verification of each attorney’s annual CLE compliance shall thereafter be filed with the Local Administrative Judge for the Ector County District Courts. This filing requirement shall be the responsibility of the approved attorney. All records and verifications of CLE compliance shall remain in the possession of and be maintained by the Local Administrative Judge for the Ector County District Courts. Further, pursuant to Article 26.04(j)(4), Tex. Code Crim. Proc. and the applicable Texas Indigent Defense Commission (IDC) guidelines, each approved attorney shall make an annual reporting to the IDC of the percentage of their practice that is devoted to the handling of indigent cases. The reporting period shall be for the twelve (12) month period commencing on October 1st of each year and concluding on September 30th of the subsequent year. Each approved attorney may access the reporting portal at https://tidc.tamu.edu/attorneyreporting for additional details and resources that may assist you in complying with these reporting requirements. IT IS SO ORDERED. SIGNED the 5th day of October, 2018. [signature] W. STACY TROTTER, JUDGE, 358th DISTRICT COURT LOCAL ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE
ORDER - CLE and INDIGENT DEFENSE REPORTING Consistent with the recommendations submitted to the Ector County Board of Judges by the Texas Indigent Defense Commission, IT IS ORDERED that the attorneys who have been approved to receive felony and/or misdemeanor indigent appointments from the Ector County Board of Judges shall comply with the Continuing Legal Education (CLE) requirements of Chapter
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-25 (AJR-7 Seventh Region build, own-site layer) from BenchPath custody ajr7 corpus sources/documents/34c4c717492e98a9-cle-and-indigent-defense-reporting-pdf.pdf (69,756 bytes, sha256 34c4c717492e98a9326a3d7408f7d7141704997fb57497da7e5543a22e6f3064; 1 page(s)) - the document the Ector County website posts (https://www.ectorcountytx.gov/DocumentCenter/View/968/CLE-and-Indigent-Defense-Reporting-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, 358th District Court, Local Administrative Judge (October 5, 2018). The county's own website also still posts an earlier edition: https://www.ectorcountytx.gov/DocumentCenter/View/314/CLE-Requirements-PDF (the Ector County board of judges order on CLE requirements of October 14, 2015, superseded by the order of October 5, 2018 - read 2026-09-25); the text published here is the later one.
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