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Under Code of Criminal Procedure art. 17.027, a defendant charged with a felony committed while on bail for a felony in the same county may be released only by the court where the prior case is pending or a court it designates in writing; the 81st and 218th District Courts designate that a defendant on bail for, or charged with, murder may be magistrated and have bail set only by a district or county-court-at-law judge of that county, and any other art. 17.027 defendant may be magistrated and have bail set by a district, county-court-at-law, justice of the peace or municipal judge of that county.
Applies to magistration and bail-setting for art. 17.027 defendants (felony charged while on felony bail in the same county) in the 81st and 218th District Courts in Karnes County; the caption names Frio, Karnes, La Salle and Wilson Counties. Frio registered the order on TOPICs; this is the Karnes County edition. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
IN THE 81ST & 218TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURTS — FRIO | KARNES | LASALLE | WILSON COUNTY, TEXAS — STANDING ORDER REGARDING RELEASE ON BAIL OF DEFENDANT CHARGED WITH FELONY OFFENSE COMMITTED WHILE ON BAIL FOR FELONY OFFENSE. FINDINGS. The District Courts of Atascosa, Frio, Karnes, LaSalle and Wilson County, Texas, 81st and 218th Judicial Districts (hereinafter jointly referred to as "the Courts") find: 1. The Legislature has recently made significant changes to the statutes regarding bail; 2. It is necessary to make this order, to comply with the changes to the bail bonding procedures, in Atascosa, Frio, Karnes, La Salle and Wilson County, Texas; and, 3. Pursuant to Art. 17.027, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, a defendant charged with a felony offense, while on bail for a felony offense, both offenses alleged to have been committed in the same county, the defendant may be released on bail only by: a. the court before whom the case for the previous offense is pending; b. or another court designated in writing by the court described by Finding ¶ (3)(a). ORDER. It is hereby ORDERED that: 1. For any defendant described in Art. 17.027, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, on bail for, or charged with, murder, may be magistrated, and bail set by, only by a District or County Court at Law Judge of that county; and, 2. For any defendant described in Art. 17.027, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, EXCEPT those described in Order ¶ (1), a District or County Court at Law Judge, Justice of the Peace, or Municipal Judge, of that county, may magistrate and set bail. IT IS SO ORDERED. SIGNED ON APRIL 21, 2023. Judge Jennifer M. Dillingham, 81st District Court; Judge Russell Wilson, 218th District Court. Filed May 2, 2023, Ofilia M. Trevino, District Clerk, Frio County.
IN THE 81ST & 218TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURTS — FRIO | KARNES | LASALLE | WILSON COUNTY, TEXAS — STANDING ORDER REGARDING RELEASE ON BAIL OF DEFENDANT CHARGED WITH FELONY OFFENSE COMMITTED WHILE ON BAIL FOR FELONY OFFENSE. FINDINGS. The District Courts of Atascosa, Frio, Karnes, LaSalle and Wilson County, Texas, 81st and 218th Judicial Districts (hereinafter jointly referred to as "the Courts") fin
Reviewer note: Karnes County edition composed 2026-09-08 from the Frio County TOPICs registration receipt (doc 1341, the signed April 21, 2023 order; the shared-instrument doctrine: one order of the 81st and 218th District Courts for the five counties they serve, registered only by Frio). Text identical to the Frio edition. The courts' own-site posting of the order (81-218.txcourts.gov, an unsigned print of the same text) is recorded as a twin. Original composition note: Composed 2026-09-07 from the TOPICs custody scan (one image-only page read in full through the vision lane). Only Frio registered this order; its findings reach all five counties of the 81st/218th — composed on Frio (the registering county); carry to the sibling counties at their own-site pass if their clerks post it. Two signers, so no single judge join.
A standing order of the 97th Judicial District Court sealing the files in cases in which Child Protective Services or the Department of Family and Protective Services appears as petitioner, in the counties comprising the 97th Judicial District.
Dallas County Standing Order Regarding Children, Pets, Property and Conduct of the Parties (Family District Courts General Orders, current edition F2026/05, revised Jan. 31, 2026 — a re-adoption of the same operative text by the current bench: Hon. Kim Brown (254th), Vonda Bailey (255th), Sandre Streete (256th), Ashley Wysocki (301st), Sandra Jackson (302nd), LaDeitra Adkins (303rd), and Andrea D. Plumlee (330th)), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/11/2023). The order "applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Dallas County" automatically, without request: child-disruption prohibitions, pet protection, party-conduct restraints, divorce-case property/records/insurance freezes with specific authorizations, mandatory petition attachment, and its TRO-to-temporary-injunction lifecycle.