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Standing order of the two Freestone County district courts on audio and video exhibits: the sponsoring party must put the media in a format that the appropriate court of appeals will accept; audio exhibits may not exceed 100 Mb and video files 2 GB; the listed extensions (.avi, .wmv, .ogg, .oga, .ogv, .webm) need no conversion to .mp3 or .mp4 and any other format must be converted; only the segments offered may be on the media (for example, only the jail calls actually offered, not the whole disk); if the court of appeals later cannot open the exhibit, the sponsoring party must give the court reporter a copy in the required format.
Texas > Tenth Administrative Judicial Region > Freestone County > the 77th and 87th District Courts. Any party introducing an audio or video exhibit on a CD, DVD or other media storage device.
MISCELLANEOUS STANDING ORDER RE: AUDIO/VISUAL EVIDENCE § IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF FREESTONE COUNTY, TEXAS ORDER REGARDING AUDIO/VISUAL EVIDENCE When introducing an audio or video CD/DVD/Media storage device, the Court orders that the sponsoring party of the media shall ensure it is in a format that may be uploaded and accepted by the appropriate court of appeals and their guidelines. Audio exhibits may not exceed 100 Mb. Video files may not exceed 2 GB. A list of valid extensions that the media must be submitted in are: .avi, .wmv, .ogg, .oga, .ogv, .webm. If an exhibit has any of those extensions, the sponsoring party does not have to convert it to a .mp3 or .mp4 file. If it does not have any of those extensions, the sponsoring party shall convert it. Only segments offered as an exhibit can be on the audio or video media (i.e., a DVD of jail phone calls with 50 calls, if only certain calls are being offered, copy only those calls onto a separate disk and offer that disk as an exhibit, not all 50 calls). If at any time in the future the case in on appeal and the Court of Appeals cannot open the exhibit that was offered, the sponsoring party that offered the exhibit will be responsible to provide the court reporter with the exhibit that is in the acceptable format as required by the appropriate court of appeals. Signed this 14th [handwritten] day of January, 2025. [signature] The Honorable Roy DeFriend 77th Judicial District Court [signature] The Honorable Amy Thomas Ward 87th Judicial District Court [File stamp: FILED 9:52 O'CLOCK A.M., JAN 14 2025, TERESA BLACK, DISTRICT CLERK, FREESTONE COUNTY, TEXAS, BY [signature], DEPUTY]
MISCELLANEOUS STANDING ORDER RE: AUDIO/VISUAL EVIDENCE § IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF FREESTONE COUNTY, TEXAS ORDER REGARDING AUDIO/VISUAL EVIDENCE When introducing an audio or video CD/DVD/Media storage device, the Court orders that the sponsoring party of the media shall ensure it is in a format that may be uploaded and accepted by the appropriate court of appeals and their guidelines. Audio exhi
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-19 (AJR-10 Tenth Region build) from BenchPath custody sources/registered/2216.pdf (application/pdf, 762496 bytes, sha256 ed45be7fe280f483c3330f39b1157ea7c40b72835e83e8b6cea3d6cf1a0ca04c; 1 pages) - the TOPICs-registered document: transcribed by eye from the rendered pages of the scanned PDF (no text layer in the file was relied on), machine OCR draft corrected page by page; signature and file-stamp blocks bracketed. One-page scan read by eye; typed from the page and diffed against an independent OCR pass. Handwritten: '14th'. The clerk's stamp and signature lie over the caption. Printed as on the instrument: 'the case in on appeal', '100 Mb'.
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.