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Ector County Courts at Law Pre-Trial Docket Call Procedures (from February 2023)

High confidence· verified September 25, 2026Case ManagementEctor County Courts at Law Pre-Trial Docket Call Procedures (from February 2023), Ector County, Texas; posted on the Ector County website (https://www.ectorcountytx.gov/DocumentCenter/View/311/Pre-Trial-Docket-Call-Procedures-PDF), fetched 2026-09-24.

Summary

Notice of the Ector County Courts at Law to criminal defense attorneys: from February 2023 pre-trial announcements are made in person (e-mailed announcements are no longer accepted), and plea conferences held right after each pre-trial docket call address the cases on the following pre-trial docket.

Applies to

Texas > Seventh Administrative Judicial Region > Ector County > County Court at Law, County Court at Law No. 2.

Requirement

TO ALL ATTORNEYS WHO REPRESENT DEFENDANTS IN CRIMINAL CASES IN THE ECTOR COUNTY COURTS AT LAW: Beginning in February, 2023, the County Courts at Law will be changing the Pre-Trial Docket call procedure. The Courts will be implementing a new plea conference system, and therefore all counsel are hereby notified that we will be returning to “in-person” announcements for all Pre-Trial docket calls, and that e-mailing your announcements in lieu of in-person attendance will no longer be permitted. The plea conference system will better facilitate the communication of plea offers from the State to Defense Counsel, and in-person announcements at the Pre-Trial Docket call will ensure that all attorneys will be present for the utilization of the plea conference system, and that all pre-trial matters are resolved prior to moving a case to the Trial Docket. Plea conferences will be held immediately following the Pre-Trial Docket call. Offers presented will be for cases on the following Pre-Trial Docket. For example: on February 14th, 2023, all plea conference offers will be given to the attorneys for cases set on the March 7th, 2023 Pre-Trial Docket. Christopher M. Clark Presiding Judge, Ector County Court at Law #2 300 North Grant Ave., Room 235, Odessa TX 79761 Telephone: (432) 498-4120 Fax: (432) 498-4121 Brooke D. Hendricks Presiding Judge, County Court at Law Ector County Courthouse 300 N. Grant, Room 234 Odessa, Texas 79761 Office: (432) 498-4110 Fax: (432) 498-4112 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication, message, and information, and the other communications, messages, and documents to which it is attached or which are attached to it, if any, are intended only for the use of the designated and/or duly authorized recipient(s) named above and may contain information that is PRIVATE, CONFIDENTIAL, or PRIVILEGED BY LAW. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or you have received this communication in error, you are notified that any copying, dissemination, use, or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited. Further, if you are not the intended recipient(s), or you have received this communication in error, please permanently delete all copies of the communication and its attachments, if any, without reading them, destroy any hard copies you may have created, and notify the sender immediately at (432) 498-4120 so that arrangements can be made to retrieve any transmitted communication, message, or information. If you are the intended recipient, please secure the contents of the communication and information in a manner that conforms to all applicable state and/or federal laws and regulations that pertain to privacy and confidentiality of such communication and information. All submitted and received email correspondence that relates to pending cases will be filed with the Ector County District Clerk for inclusion in the record of said cases. Any communication directed to the Court or Court personnel via email must comply with Rules 21 and 21a, Tex. R. Civ. P. Moreover, the provisions of Canon 3B(8) of the Code of Judicial Conduct should be carefully reviewed before any person associated with or connected to a pending case attempts to submit any communication, message, or information to the Court or Court personnel.

Source of truth

TO ALL ATTORNEYS WHO REPRESENT DEFENDANTS IN CRIMINAL CASES IN THE ECTOR COUNTY COURTS AT LAW: Beginning in February, 2023, the County Courts at Law will be changing the Pre-Trial Docket call procedure. The Courts will be implementing a new plea conference system, and therefore all counsel are hereby notified that we will be returning to “in-person” announcements for all Pre-Trial docket calls, a

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: February 1, 2023
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/96791a9896bb41da-pre-trial-docket-call-procedures-pdf.pdf (196,162 bytes, sha256 96791a9896bb41da219b7267409c383fc55e04c3f8a67fda110d67c30cca0948; 1 page(s)) - the document the Ector County website posts (https://www.ectorcountytx.gov/DocumentCenter/View/311/Pre-Trial-Docket-Call-Procedures-PDF), not registered with the Office of Court Administration's TOPICs registry as of 2026-09-25: the digital text layer of the file, read against every rendered page and corrected by eye (paragraphs, list structure, signature blocks, fill-ins); signature, seal and file-stamp blocks bracketed. Signed: Christopher M. Clark and Brooke D. Hendricks, Presiding Judges (undated).