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Order of the district courts of Ector County: unless a district judge orders otherwise, persons charged with a felony and in law-enforcement custody are shackled with leg, wrist and belly restraints before entering any district courtroom.
Texas > Seventh Administrative Judicial Region > Ector County > 70th, 161st, 244th, 358th and 446th District Courts.
ORDER To promote public safety and the effective and safe disposition of the felony criminal cases currently pending and to be subsequently filed in the District Courts of Ector County, Texas, unless otherwise ordered by a District Judge of Ector County, Texas, IT IS ORDERED that all persons charged with a felony offense, and who are in the custody of a law enforcement agency, shall be shackled with leg, wrist, and belly restraint devices prior to entering any Ector County District courtroom. IT IS SO ORDERED. SIGNED the 25th day of July, 2016. [signature] DENN WHALEN, 70th DISTRICT COURT [signature] JOHN W. SMITH, 161st DISTRICT COURT [signature] JAMES M. RUSH, 244th DISTRICT COURT [signature] W. STACY TROTTER, 358th DISTRICT COURT [signature] SARA KATE BILLINGSLEY 446th DISTRICT COURT
ORDER To promote public safety and the effective and safe disposition of the felony criminal cases currently pending and to be subsequently filed in the District Courts of Ector County, Texas, unless otherwise ordered by a District Judge of Ector County, Texas, IT IS ORDERED that all persons charged with a felony offense, and who are in the custody of a law enforcement agency, shall be shackled w
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-25 (AJR-7 Seventh Region build, own-site layer) from BenchPath custody ajr7 corpus sources/documents/0a974e07921be42c-shackling-orders-pdf.pdf (53,233 bytes, sha256 0a974e07921be42caa8ac905f7b8ea6898bb4e57ee930e667a318e0a889c2da8; 1 page(s)) - the document the Ector County website posts (https://www.ectorcountytx.gov/DocumentCenter/View/963/Shackling-Orders-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: Denn Whalen (70th), John W. Smith (161st), James M. Rush (244th), W. Stacy Trotter (358th) and Sara Kate Billingsley (446th), July 25, 2016.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.