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Standing order of the Lubbock County district courts for all pending and future criminal cases: the courts will not consider or rule on pleadings filed pro se by an accused who has an attorney of record (hired, assigned or appointed), there being no right to hybrid representation; an accused keeps the right to proceed without counsel, and once a waiver of counsel is approved the court considers proper pro se filings.
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[File stamp: FILED FOR REC..., DISTRICT CLERK LUBBO..., BY [initials] DE..., 2025 NOV 12 PM 2: 27, [signature]; printed sideways in the top right margin; the right-hand ends of the first three lines are too faint to read] ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER CONCERNING PRO SE FILINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES WHERE COUNSEL IS HIRED, ASSIGNED, OR APPOINTED WHEREAS, an accused in the State of Texas has no constitutional or statutory right to hybrid representation, that is representation which is partially pro se and partially by counsel¹; AND WHEREAS, an accused who has counsel (hired, assigned or appointed) is not a pro se litigant who must file pleadings on their own behalf to raise issues before the Court; AND WHEREAS, counsel for an accused has a duty to the client to pursue the client’s interest within the bounds of law² which includes filing pleadings on the client’s behalf; AND WHEREAS, an accused filing “pro se” pleadings that ask the Court to grant relief while also having counsel representing the accused is a form of hybrid representation; AND WHEREAS the filing of pleadings by an accused appearing to proceed pro se, even though the accused has representation, causes a delay in administration of duties for the District Clerk; AND WHEREAS having to navigate pleadings filed by counsel and those filed by an accused acting pro se but having an attorney causes a delay in administration of the duties of the Judges of the District Courts; IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the Lubbock County District Courts will not consider nor rule upon any and all pleadings made by an accused on a pro se basis when the accused has an attorney of record (hired, assigned or appointed), in the cause. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that nothing herein is intended in any way to interfere with the right of an accused to proceed to trial without counsel as a self-represented litigant³, and in the event that a waiver of counsel is approved by the Court, the Court shall consider and rule upon all proper pro se filings in such situations. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this is a standing order of the Lubbock County District Courts and applies to all pending and future criminal cases in the District Courts. It is incorporated into each case without further order and is effective upon signing until amended or rescinded. SO ORDERED this 7th day of November 2025. [signature] Douglas H. Freitag, Judge Presiding 140th District Judge & Local District Court Administrative Judge ¹ Landers v. State, 550 S.W. 2nd 272 (Tex. Crim. App. 1977) ² Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct; Preamble: A Lawyer’s Responsibilities ³ Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975)
[File stamp: FILED FOR REC..., DISTRICT CLERK LUBBO..., BY [initials] DE..., 2025 NOV 12 PM 2: 27, [signature]; printed sideways in the top right margin; the right-hand ends of the first three lines are too faint to read] ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER CONCERNING PRO SE FILINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES WHERE COUNSEL IS HIRED, ASSIGNED, OR APPOINTED WHEREAS, an accused in the State of Texas has no constitutional
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-25 (AJR-9 Ninth Region build) from BenchPath custody probe/topics9/2671.pdf (application/pdf, 462150 bytes, sha256 3963a4a425cfcf3a437a5ff92ad6bc283b38ef730b10e2a45a6dd84f9e9bca6a; 2 pages) - the TOPICs-registered document: transcribed from the rendered pages of the scanned PDF (the machine OCR layer was not relied on), every page read against the render; signature, seal and file-stamp blocks bracketed. The page-1 footnotes (case and rule citations) are placed at the end of the order.
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.