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Local Rules of the District Courts Trying Criminal Cases in Harris County, Texas (amended January 2022) — Harris County, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/01/2023). The operative requirements are quoted from the registered document; the registered document is the controlling text.
Texas > Harris County > District Courts Trying Criminal Cases (Felony Division)
These rules supersede any and all previously published Local Rules of the District Courts Trying Criminal Cases in Harris County, Texas. … The Felony Division Board shall meet the first Wednesday of every month. … Each Harris County District Judge Trying Criminal Cases shall serve as Judge on Duty on a rotating basis. Each Felony Judge shall serve two weeks as Judge on Duty. … Be available to sign warrants 24 hours a day, seven days a week during Judge on Duty term. … As reasonably possible, Felony Division Courts shall ensure that all cases are brought to trial or final disposition in conformity within 12 months of arrest or return of indictment, whichever is earlier. … The Felony Division Courts will empanel five Grand Juries during each term of the District Courts in Harris County. … Defendant and Defendant's attorney must be present during docket call unless permission to waive appearance is granted. … If, prior to the disposition of a case, an appointed or retained attorney wishes to withdraw as attorney of record, the attorney must file a written motion to withdraw at least 15 days prior to a trial setting. … Attorneys must announce "ready" or "not ready" upon call of the trial or motion docket. If a case is placed "on-call," the attorneys must be readily available within one hour after notification from the Court that the case is ready to proceed. … When a case is to be rescheduled, a reset agreement must be prepared by the attorney seeking the reset and concurred in by opposing counsel. … No photographs, video recordings, audio recordings, livestreaming, tweeting, or broadcasting of any nature is allowed of any proceeding before a Felony District Court without express permission from the Court. … Trial cases take precedence over conflicting non-trial settings. A trial setting assigned takes precedence over a conflicting trial setting not yet assigned. Trial settings in which a Defendant is in custody take precedence over trial settings in which the defendant is on bond.
Reviewer note: Operative provisions transcribed by vision-read of the registered scanned document (rasterized at 170 dpi; the embedded text layer is absent or corrupt); the registered document (sha256 11a805312bdd…) is the controlling text. Adopted under Tex. Gov't Code § 74.093 and Rule of Judicial Administration 10; the registry associates the registration with the 23 felony district courts.
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