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The 378th District Court's adopted plan for conducting juvenile detention hearings as remote proceedings under Texas Family Code § 54.012 (the 378th holds all Ellis County juvenile cases): discretionary remote detention hearings on prior written notice, guaranteed cross-examination, an unobstructed-camera rule (a witness who cannot be clearly seen will not be allowed to testify), evidence-handling steps for remote hearings, court-reporter recording with 91/120-day retention, and OCA submission.
Texas > Ellis County > 378th District Court — juvenile detention hearings (the 378th holds all Ellis County juvenile cases under Court Rules of Administration § II.f). Signed June 13, 2024 by Judge William D. Wallace; filed with the District Clerk June 17, 2024.
Reviewer note: Image-only scan read through the vision lane (2 pages); operative provisions quoted verbatim from the rendered pages. Registered custody sha256 adee3ada…, 83,228 B. Composed benchpath-ajr1-p6.
Division XI: information forms for data processing (Rule 11.2); required action - action taken on all calendared cases and a future date always set (Rule 11.19); and pro tem judges - an attorney named as a plaintiff in a civil or small claims case may not sit as a judge pro-tem during the case or within six months following its resolution, nor one named as a defendant in two or more such cases (Rule 11.22). Rules 11.1, 11.3 to 11.5, 11.7 to 11.18, 11.20 and 11.21 are repealed, and Rule 11.6 (voluntary arbitration; see Local Rule 10.2) was repealed and renumbered.
Duval County's indigent-defense and magistration rules under the Texas Fair Defense Act (S.B. 7): who may be booked into the county jail and on what paper; arrest-case numbering; presentment to a magistrate within 48 hours (art. 15.16); the magistrate's warnings, counsel inquiry, interpreter duty, indigence determination and appointment of counsel within 24 hours of a request; the alternative appointment plan under art. 26.04(g)-(h) with annual applications, seven attorney categories (capital, first and second degree, third degree/state jail/misdemeanor, competency, appeals, post-conviction, extradition), CLE and experience standards, random rotation within each category, written acceptance within 48 hours, first contact by the end of the next working day, replacement and suspension of counsel, fee applications within five days of completing services and the compensation attachment ($500 pleas; $175/$150 hourly; $1,400 per jury-trial day; appellate caps); bail schedules by offense class with a personal bond office (fee $20 or 3%), pre-trial supervision and revocation hearings within two working days; arraignment settings and notice; repeal of conflicting rules.
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