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A standing pre-trial order promoting informal criminal discovery and preventing ineffective-assistance claims. Without a written request, the prosecuting attorney must disclose and make available for inspection at least seven days before trial a defined set of materials — mitigating/impeachment/favorable evidence, defendant and co-defendant statements, the State’s witness list, scientific-test and examination results, prior convictions, extraneous-offense evidence, plea agreements, physical evidence, and any recommended plea sentence — and defines the defense attorney’s corresponding responsibilities. An open-file policy satisfies these requirements.
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"In order to promote informal discovery and prevent a complaint of ineffective assistance of counsel the following Court’s Standing Pre-Trial Order is decreed." The State must, without written request, disclose and make available at least 7 days before trial the twelve enumerated categories (mitigating/impeachment/favorable evidence; defendant/co-defendant statements; witness lists; test and examination results; prior convictions; extraneous offenses; plea agreements; physical evidence; recommended plea sentence; post-testimony witness statements). Boilerplate discovery motions covering these matters are disregarded; an open-file policy satisfies the order.
Reviewer note: AJR-2 cluster (12th/278th/506th). Source instrument read via vision/text lane; classified RULE under the records-vs-rules doctrine. Composed benchpath-ajr2-cluster.
Tenth (10th) Court of Appeals — Standing Order No. 1, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/01/2023). The operative requirements are quoted verbatim; the registered document is the controlling text.
Tenth (10th) Court of Appeals — Standing Order No. 2, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/01/2023). The operative requirements are quoted verbatim; the registered document is the controlling text.