Fair Defense Act Appointment Procedures — 487th District Court (signed May 5, 2025)

High confidence· verified August 23, 2026Administrative OrdersHarris County, Fair Defense Act Appointment Procedures — 487th District Court (signed May 5, 2025) (court website)

Summary

Fair Defense Act Appointment Procedures — 487th District Court (signed May 5, 2025) — posted on the court's own website — the court-procedure tier (standing procedures, policies, and preferences the court itself publishes), distinct from the TOPICs-registered local-rules tier (TRCP 3a registration applies to local rules). Operative requirements quoted verbatim; the posted document is the controlling text.

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Texas > Harris County > 487th District Court

Source of truth

Official source: Harris County District Courts — justex.net (family site)
Source health: Healthy · checked August 21, 2026
Effective date: May 5, 2025
Last verified: August 23, 2026benchpath-ajr11-p5-2026-08-23

Reviewer note: Own-site content fetched by us 2026-08-23 (Phase 5 page-denominator close; hashed custody). Complete document text quoted verbatim (whitespace-normalized); the posted document is the controlling text. Linked from the DCA 'Individual Court Procedures' page (/fdamsproc), which generates one link per felony court; one-page PDF; headings in the posted text layer are OCR-garbled and were normalized against the page image.

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18 verbatim requirements from 5th Jud. Cir., M-2018-65 — sha256-hashed 2026-07-25.

High confidence· verified July 25, 20265th Jud. Cir., M-2018-65 — sha256-hashed 2026-07-25

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2 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A.

High confidence· verified August 3, 2026Fourth Judicial Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A, filed 05/12/1988, published on the Duval Clerk's administrative-orders store — sha256-hashed 2026-08-03

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4th Cir. — AO 1987-09 Administrative Order 87-09 Court Reporters - Requests for Transcripts

1 verbatim requirement from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1987-09.

High confidence· verified August 3, 2026Fourth Judicial Circuit Administrative Order 1987-09, filed 04/13/1987, published on the Duval Clerk's administrative-orders store — sha256-hashed 2026-08-03

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1 verbatim requirement from G-2026-045-SC.

High confidence· verified August 18, 20267th Jud. Cir., G-2026-045-SC — record page sha256-hashed 2026-08-03

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