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Appointment of Counsel on Article 16.22 Notice or Report in Class A and B Misdemeanors (Hunt County Courts at Law; January 4, 2023)

High confidence· verified September 19, 2026Case ManagementLetter re: Code of Criminal Procedure 16.22 for Class A and B Misdemeanors, Hunt County Courts at Law No. 1 and No. 2, January 4, 2023. TOPICs registration 901 (Hunt County, Local Rules).

Summary

Joint letter of the two county court at law judges to the Hunt County justices of the peace: the county courts at law will appoint an attorney for a defendant charged with a Class A or Class B misdemeanor on receiving either a magistrate's notice under Code of Criminal Procedure art. 16.22(a)(1) that there is reasonable cause to believe the defendant has a mental illness or is a person with intellectual disabilities, or a written report under art. 16.22(a)(1)(B) and (b-2); the magistrate need not submit an application for court-appointed attorney with either; the notice or report goes by e-mail to the court coordinator of the County Court at Law Administrative Judge (then the judge of County Court at Law No. 2).

Applies to

Texas > Tenth Administrative Judicial Region > Hunt County > County Courts at Law No. 1 and No. 2. A procedure addressed to five named justices of the peace as magistrates; by its own terms it applies only to misdemeanors.

Requirement

HUNT COUNTY COURTS AT LAW NO. 1 AND NO. 2 2507 LEE STREET, GREENVILLE TX 75401 TIMOTHY S. LINDEN, JUDGE, COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 1, 4TH FLOOR COUNTY COURTHOUSE JOEL D. LITTLEFIELD, JUDGE, COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 2, 2ND FLOOR COUNTY COURTHOUSE January 4, 2023 Hon. Wayne Money Hon. Christie Roundtree Hon. Sheila D. Linden Hon. Clayton Rankin Hon. Kerry Crews Re: Code of Criminal Procedure 16.22 For Class A and B Misdemeanors Dear Justices: The Hunt County Courts at Law will appoint an attorney to represent a defendant charged with a Class A or Class B Misdemeanor upon receiving: (1) notice that a magistrate, pursuant to Article 16.22(a)(1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure has determined that there is reasonable cause to believe that a defendant has a mental illness or is a person with intellectual disabilities; OR (2) a written report pursuant to Article 16.22(a)(1)(B) and (b-2) of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure that a defendant has a mental illness or is a person with intellectual disabilities. The magistrate need not submit an Application for Court Appointed Attorney on behalf of the defendant when submitting either of the above. Please submit the above to the County Court at Law Administrative Judge, which is currently Judge Joel D. Littlefield, Hunt County Court at Law No. 2 via email to Amenda Henderson, the Court Coordinator at the following email address: ahenderson@huntcounty.net. This procedure only applies to misdemeanors. [signature] Judge Timothy S. Linden Hunt County Court at Law No. 1 [signature] Judge Joel D. Littlefield Hunt County Court at Law No. 2 /ah [File stamp: FILED FOR RECORD at 2:27 o'clock P.M., JAN 04 2023, BECKY LANDRUM, County Clerk, Hunt County, Tex., by [signature]]

Source of truth

HUNT COUNTY COURTS AT LAW NO. 1 AND NO. 2 2507 LEE STREET, GREENVILLE TX 75401 TIMOTHY S. LINDEN, JUDGE, COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 1, 4TH FLOOR COUNTY COURTHOUSE JOEL D. LITTLEFIELD, JUDGE, COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 2, 2ND FLOOR COUNTY COURTHOUSE January 4, 2023 Hon. Wayne Money Hon. Christie Roundtree Hon. Sheila D. Linden Hon. Clayton Rankin Hon. Kerry Crews Re: Code of Criminal Procedure 16.22 F

Official source: TOPICs — Texas local rules registry (topics.txcourts.gov)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 24, 2026
Effective date: January 4, 2023
Last verified: September 19, 2026benchpath-tx-ajr10-p2-2026-09-19

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-19 (AJR-10 Tenth Region build) from BenchPath custody sources/registered/901.pdf (application/pdf, 140988 bytes, sha256 4e7daf605fa005dd862a96ba2123b201de92faf137589f8124333b5da3e54431; 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. The PDF's OCR layer drops the word 'not' from 'The magistrate need not submit an Application' (the page prints 'need not' in bold italics, underlined) and the second article citation; both were read from the page. The letter names the administrative judge 'currently' serving on January 4, 2023; it is quoted as written.