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Standing Discovery Order — County Criminal Court at Law No. 9 (effective September 17, 2020) — 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.
Texas > Harris County > County Criminal Court at Law No. 9
CAUSE NUMBER: ________________________ THE STATE OF TEXAS § IN THE COUNTY CRIMINAL VS. § COURT AT LAW NO. _____ ____________________ § HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS STANDING DISCOVERY ORDER ON THIS the ______ day of ________________________, 20___, the Court’s Standing Discovery Order in the above styled and numbered cause was received and signed by the parties. To assist counsel and to economize the Court’s time, the Court does enter the following Order: IT IS ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED BY THE COURT that Parties shall fully comply with Article 39.14 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. Notwithstanding Article 39.14, the State shall furnish upon the request of the Defendant at least twenty-one (21) days before trial, or by a date designated by the Court for a Discovery Hearing the following information: 1. List of names, addresses and telephone numbers of all anticipated trial witnesses to be supplemented as others are discovered. 2. All written or recorded statements, including video tape recordings, of the Defendant, along with all confessions or statements, whether verbal or otherwise, made pursuant to Art. 38.22 C.C.P., along with any written waiver signed by the Defendant. 3. Inspection of: a. All items seized from the Defendant. b. All items seized from any Co-Defendant or accomplice. c. All physical objects to be introduced as part of the State’s case. d. All documents, photographs and investigative charts or diagrams to be introduced at trial. e. All contraband, weapons, instruments of criminal activity seized or acquired by the State or its agents in the investigation of the alleged offense. f. All records of convictions which may be admissible in evidence or used for impeachment of the Defendant. g. All tangible items of physical evidence collected by the State or its agents concerning the alleged offense; to include latent fingerprints, footprints, hairs, fibers, fingernail scrapings, body fluids, tire tracks, paint scrapings, etc. 4. All promises of benefit or leniency afforded to any accomplice or prospective witness in connection with his proposed testimony or other cooperation with regard to the alleged offense. 5. All known convictions which are admissible for impeachment concerning any of the State’s proposed witnesses. 6. Copies of all complaints, search warrants (related affidavits), autopsy reports, laboratory reports of all examinations of contraband, fluids, hairs, fingerprints, blood samples, ballistics, soil, fibers, paints, DNA and all other reports of experts including the name and address of each person who made such report or performed the test, experiment, or comparison. 7. Inspection of all business records or governmental records expected to be introduced by the State. 8. All exculpatory evidence. 9. All relevant incident/ offense reports, amended/supplemental reports, and all witness statements, unless deemed to be the work product of the State and therefore protected from mandatory disclosure, unless the contents of said work product are exculpatory. Notwithstanding the previously stated, such statements and reports must of course be tendered to the Defense for cross-examination on proper request under Gaskin or related requirements. 10. All photographs of the Defendant which were used in conjunction with the investigation of this case including specifically any photographs which may have been shown by law enforcement officers to any potential witness in this case. 11. All medical and psychiatric reports submitted by any doctors, psychiatrists, or psychologists at the request of the State or the Court in conjunction with any examination of the Defendant. 12. Any and all evidence as to the incompetency of the Defendant which is in the possession of the District Attorney’s Office. 13, All crime scene photographs. 14. All information covered by Rule 404b T.R.E. This Order is intended to dispose of all pretrial discovery motions unless, in the opinion of defense counsel, further particularized discovery is necessary. In such event, defense counsel will file a written Motion for Discovery, addressing any matters not covered by this Order, which Motion will be filed within seven (7) days prior to the Pre-Trial Motions setting, unless good cause is shown for such Motion being filed at a later date. ____________________________________ Attorney for Defendant/ Pro Se Defendant, SBN: ___________________ __________________________________ Assistant District Attorney, SBN: ___________________ Signed this the ________ day of _____________________________, 20___. ______________________________________ Presiding Judge, Harris County Court at Law No.____ (Effective 9/17/2020)
Reviewer note: Own-site document live-fetched by us 2026-08-22, byte-identical to the AJR-11 recon capture of 2026-08-21 (dual custody). Operative mandatory-language provisions quoted verbatim from the posted document; the full document (sha256 2637e03fb0cc…) is the controlling text. [RECOMPOSED 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P7, digital-layer lane): the full text of the registered file (sha256 2637e03fb0cc..., 2 pages) replaces the earlier 552-character abstract. Method: pypdfium2 text layer reflowed page-aware, cross-checked word-by-word against PyMuPDF (2 substantive difference(s), 0 page-furniture), owner-corpus candidate sentences 100% (4/4) matched, 0 running header/footer line(s) removed, no U+FFFD/U+FFFE/form-feed debris. NOT yet checked page by page against the render, so confidence is medium with an open re-verification task; flip to high when a reviewer has read every page against the PDF. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p7-2026-09-21] [BY-EYE CHECK 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P11): every page of the registered file (sha256 2637e03fb0cc..., 2 page(s)) read against the rendered PDF; file-stamp, caption and signature-block defects of the text layer corrected from the render; confidence lifted to high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p11-2026-09-21]
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.