Plea Deadline Procedure — Arraignment, Pre-Trial and Plea… — San Patricio County, TX · BenchPath

Plea Deadline Procedure — Arraignment, Pre-Trial and Plea Deadline Settings (County Court at Law No. 2, San Patricio County; effective October 1, 2024; Judge Viki Hesseltine Martino)

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Deadlines & Time ComputationPlea Deadline Procedure letter of Judge Viki H. Martino, County Court at Law No. 2, San Patricio County, effective October 1, 2024, with the Request for Zoom Status Docket Setting form and the Arraignment, Pre-Trial, and Plea Deadline Dates calendar — posted on the County Court at Law No. 2 page of the San Patricio County website (page/open/1597/0/ccatlaw 2 Plea Deadline Procedure.pdf; custody sha256 d19cd0cf…).

Summary

From October 1, 2024 every arraignment date in County Court at Law No. 2 carries a hard plea deadline: discovery, suppression and plea bargaining are expected to conclude between arraignment and that deadline, the court will not consider plea agreements after it, and unresolved cases go to a trial docket. Contested pretrial matters get a specific setting and time on request to the court coordinator once the motion is filed; cases pending lab results, other discovery issues or a pending felony may be placed on a Zoom status docket (by the court's request form) and carry no plea deadline until removed; motions for continuance must be properly executed and filed before the setting, and moving the pretrial setting never moves the plea deadline. The court's calendar of arraignment, pre-trial and plea-deadline dates runs from October 1, 2024 through the July 22, 2025 arraignment (plea deadline December 4, 2025).

Applies to

Applies to criminal cases in County Court at Law No. 2 of San Patricio County (Judge Viki Hesseltine Martino) arraigned on or after October 1, 2024. The letter is addressed to attorneys; the appended request form and calendar are part of the posted instrument. Posted on the court's page of the county website (www.sanpatriciocountytx.gov, Court At Law 2); not registered on TOPICs.

Source of truth

County Court at Law No. 2, San Patricio County — Honorable Viki Hesseltine Martino, Judge Presiding. Phone number: (361) 587-3418. Email: SANPATCCAL2@GMAIL.COM. Attorneys: Effective October 1, 2024, CCAL No. 2 is implementing a new policy concerning the way cases will be set and resets granted. Essentially, every arraignment date will be given a hard plea deadline. During the time between arraignm

Official source: San Patricio County Courts — www.sanpatriciocountytx.gov (county website; County Court at Law No. 2 and District Clerk pages)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 9, 2026
Effective date: October 1, 2024
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-tx-ajr4-san-patricio-ownsite-r1-0909

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-09 from BenchPath's own-site custody copy (native text layer; reading order checked against the rendered page). Three pages: the signed letter (page 1, read against the render — the print reads "Kim" and "1:30" where the text layer had "Kirn" and "1 :30"), the request form (page 2, described in brackets) and the calendar (page 3, transcribed row by row). Court and judge join: signed by Judge Martino as presiding judge.