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County Court at Law No. 2 (sitting as the juvenile court)'s plan for conducting juvenile detention hearings as remote proceedings under Texas Family Code §54.012 (eff. May 1, 2024): the court's discretion to hold remote detention hearings, the parties' cross-examination right, and the unobstructed-view camera requirement (a witness not clearly seen may not testify), consistent with constitutional confrontation requirements.
Texas > Rockwall County > County Court at Law No. 2 sitting as the juvenile court (Hon. Stephani Woodward) — juvenile detention hearings under Family Code §54.012
THE STATE OF TEXAS § IN THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 2 COUNTY OF ROCKWALL § SITTING AS A JUVENILE COURT REMOTE DETENTION HEARING PROCEDURES I. Plan Adoption In accordance with Texas Family Code Section 54.012, the County Court at Law No. 2 of Rockwall County, Texas adopts the following plan to conduct detention hearings as remote proceedings. II. Definitions A. Detention hearings have the same mean
Reviewer note: Registered scan composed by vision (image-only, rendered and read 2026-08-28); CCL2 sits as the Rockwall juvenile court; the same §54.012 remote-detention class as Dallas's juvenile order; custody sha256 in the registry ledger (doc 1896). [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 c4f4330e04ce..., 2 page(s), image-only scan; the OCR layer used as a typing base and corrected word by word from the page) read against the rendered file; verbatim, source typos kept, stamps/signatures bracketed; the earlier abstract replaced by the full instrument; confidence high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21]
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Duval County's indigent-defense and magistration rules under the Texas Fair Defense Act (S.B. 7): who may be booked into the county jail and on what paper; arrest-case numbering; presentment to a magistrate within 48 hours (art. 15.16); the magistrate's warnings, counsel inquiry, interpreter duty, indigence determination and appointment of counsel within 24 hours of a request; the alternative appointment plan under art. 26.04(g)-(h) with annual applications, seven attorney categories (capital, first and second degree, third degree/state jail/misdemeanor, competency, appeals, post-conviction, extradition), CLE and experience standards, random rotation within each category, written acceptance within 48 hours, first contact by the end of the next working day, replacement and suspension of counsel, fee applications within five days of completing services and the compensation attachment ($500 pleas; $175/$150 hourly; $1,400 per jury-trial day; appellate caps); bail schedules by offense class with a personal bond office (fee $20 or 3%), pre-trial supervision and revocation hearings within two working days; arraignment settings and notice; repeal of conflicting rules.
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