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The second amended local rule for Jefferson County Courts at Law No. 2 and No. 3 on electronic filing and service: effective January 1, 2018, all documents in criminal matters must be e-filed (per the Supreme Court’s Misc. Docket No. 16-003) except where the defendant is pro se, and all proposed orders and judgments must be e-filed as an attachment coded as a Proposed Order.
Texas > Jefferson County > County Courts at Law No. 2 and No. 3 — electronic filing in criminal matters. The first-amended edition (doc 2499, signed July 2014, CCL No. 1/2/3 — the "no gang filing" one-subject-per-pleading rule) is folded here as the prior version.
SECOND AMENDED LOCAL RULE - ELECTRONIC FILING AND SERVICE OF PLEADINGS As of January 1, 2018, Jefferson County Courts at Law No. 2 and No. 3 will make effective the Supreme Court Order of 06/30/2016 under Misc. Docket No. 16-003, all documents that are a part of criminal matters must bee-filed, mandated January 1, 2018, EXCEPT cases where defendant is pro se. It IS HEREBY ORDERED all proposed orders and judgments will be e-filed as an attachment and coded as a Proposed Order (Attachment Only) in the security setting. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that each pleading in cases designated as E-File shall be fully and properly labeled, and a pleading shall deal with only one subject matter. Thus, for example, a Motion to Require State to List Witnesses may not be combined with a Motion for Request for Discovery and Inspection of Evidence, but they shall be two separate pleadings, each labeled accordingly and filed separately. In similar fashion, all matters shall be separately pleaded, labeled, and filed, and there shall be no "gang filing". The purpose of this requirement is so that separate matters may be readily indexed and located in the electronic file. Signed this the 16 [handwritten] day of January, 2018. [signature] Judge Terrence L. Holmes, County Court at Law No. 2 [signature] Judge Clint Woods, County Court at Law No. 3
Reviewer note: Text-layer registration read and quoted verbatim. NOTE: the feed titles this "Local Rule Gang Filing" but the text is the electronic-filing rule (records-vs-rules: text adjudicates). Doc 2499 (first-amended 2014 edition, incl. the no-gang-filing requirement) folded as superseded. Composed benchpath-ajr2-jefferson. [RECOMPOSED 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P7, digital-layer lane): the full text of the registered file (sha256 372437001a66..., 1 pages) replaces the earlier 412-character abstract. Method: pypdfium2 text layer reflowed page-aware, cross-checked word-by-word against PyMuPDF (1 substantive difference(s), 2 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 372437001a66..., 1 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]