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Administrative Order on the Assignment of Newly Indicted Felony Cases Between the 123rd and 273rd District Courts (Shelby County; signed April 8, 2021)

High confidence· verified September 21, 2026Case ManagementAdministrative Order, Re: Felony Criminal Cases of Shelby County, 123rd/273rd Judicial District Courts of Shelby County, Texas, No. 21MICR04, signed April 8, 2021. TOPICs registration 1188 (Shelby County).

Summary

Administrative order of the two Shelby County district courts on felony case assignment: from each grand jury's list of newly indicted cases the District Clerk assigns one-half to the 123rd and one-half to the 273rd, alternating from a randomly selected case, the first case going to the court that did not receive the last case of the prior list; a new felony case against a defendant with a felony case pending in one of the courts is filed in that court; co-defendants from one alleged criminal transaction are assigned to the same court.

Applies to

Texas > Tenth Administrative Judicial Region > Shelby County > the 123rd and 273rd District Courts. Newly indicted felony cases in Shelby County; the order is directed to the District Clerk.

Requirement

[Handwritten: 21MICR04] [File stamp: FILED, LORI OLIVER, DISTRICT CLERK, 2021 APR 14 P 1:49, DISTRICT COURT, SHELBY COUNTY, TEXAS, BY [initials] DEPUTY] IN THE 123RD/273RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURTS OF SHELBY COUNTY, TEXAS RE: FELONY CRIMINAL CASES OF SHELBY COUNTY § ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER The District Clerk of Shelby County is hereby ORDERED to receive the list of the newly indicted felony criminal cases from each Grand Jury proceeding and to assign the cases to the 123rd District Court and the 273rd District Court in the following manner: one-half (1/2) to the 123rd District Court and one-half (1/2) to the 273rd District Court in an alternating manner beginning from a randomly selected case from the list, subject to the exceptions stated below: IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the District Clerk shall determine which Court received the last case from the prior grand jury list and assign the first case selected to the other Court. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that any new felony criminal case with a defendant who has a pending felony case in the 123rd District Court shall be filed in the 123rd Judicial District Court. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that any new felony criminal case with a defendant who has a pending felony case in the 273rd District Court shall be filed in the 273rd District Court. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that cases involving co-defendants from an alleged criminal transaction be assigned to the same Court. SIGNED this the 8th day of April, 2021. [signature] LeAnn Kay Rafferty, Judge, 123 Judicial District Court [signature] James A. Payne, Judge, 273rd Judicial District Court

Source of truth

[Handwritten: 21MICR04] [File stamp: FILED, LORI OLIVER, DISTRICT CLERK, 2021 APR 14 P 1:49, DISTRICT COURT, SHELBY COUNTY, TEXAS, BY [initials] DEPUTY] IN THE 123RD/273RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURTS OF SHELBY COUNTY, TEXAS RE: FELONY CRIMINAL CASES OF SHELBY COUNTY § ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER The District Clerk of Shelby County is hereby ORDERED to receive the list of the newly indicted felony criminal c

Official source: TOPICs — Texas local rules registry (topics.txcourts.gov)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 24, 2026
Effective date: April 8, 2021
Last verified: September 21, 2026benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-19 (AJR-10 Tenth Region build) from BenchPath custody sources/registered/1188.pdf (application/pdf, 72230 bytes, sha256 0c1a333c7c22998732cbad4591ed13ddabaa49a32256f06fe3564a08761cc7d4; 1 pages) - the TOPICs-registered document: transcribed by eye from the rendered pages of the scanned PDF (no text layer in the file was relied on), machine OCR draft corrected page by page; signature and file-stamp blocks bracketed. One-page scan with heavy speckle; read by eye on the page and on two zooms and typed from the page (the speckle defeats machine OCR on this page, so no OCR cross-check was possible). The number '21MICR04' is handwritten at the head of the page. Printed as on the instrument: '123 Judicial District Court' in the signature block, '273rd District Court' beside '123rd Judicial District Court' in the two pending-case paragraphs. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 0c1a333c7c22..., 1 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]